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Evie wasn’t sure what to think. She just sat there in the chair. Evie was a nice twelve year old girl, a bit stifled, sure, but she was nice. She brushed her long brown hair out of her dark brown eyes, it was always annoying when it did that.
She wasn’t sure what she was expecting when her parents brought her to a psychiatrist, so she wasn’t too surprised it was something like a therapist. She watched the man reading over the file he’d been given. His table was neat, a small plaque on the front said “William K. Jameson”.
“…so… your here for a diagnosis of CVD, yeah?” William spoke. He had dark tired eyes and dark hair that fell to one side of his head in locs with a few gold adornments to them.
“…that’s right,” Evie said, not looking up. Instead, she looked over to her left. Where Cambric was.
Cambric was her… well, people called the “imaginary friends”, but they were more than that. When a person, most often a child, gets too lonely or to a specific mental state, their brain creates an “imaginary friend” to keep them company or to comfort them or to talk to. That was the rough definition, though Evie didn’t like it. It didn’t explain why she could grab his hand, not like a hallucination. It honestly felt like magic people tried to force a scientific explanation on.
Cambric was a teddy bear, around Evie’s height, he wore a white and red striped shirt with blue overalls, and he had a few patches sewn onto him. He’d been her best friend since she’d made him- unintentionally of course.
The man put down the paper.
“Well, Mrs Evangeline, I think it’s pretty obvious that you do have CVD now that I’m reviewing the recorded signs and such, but I’m still required to ask you these questions, Kay?”
She opened her mouth to speak, to say she’d rather be called Evie, but quickly changed her mind.
“…sounds good,” she said instead.
“Ok,” he started.
“So. Have you experienced any hallucinations of ‘vivid’, ‘out of the ordinary’, or simply weird individuals or people? Say, a robot or two, or a person with a tail.”
“Yeah,” Evie said.
“His name’s Cambric, he’s a teddy bear. A white and red striped shirt with blue overalls.”
“Ok, uh…” he said as he searched the page with a look saying he did not want to come into work today.
“If yes, are these hallucinations concurrently going on or separate events?”
“Concurrent,” Evie answered.
“As expected,” William sighed.
“Let’s see… when did these hallucinations start?”
Evie paused. She considered telling him, but the consequences seemed too great.
“Uh- I’m not sure exactly when,” she lied.
“But I know we’ve been friends for a while. He’s always been a loyal friend, staying right by my side.”
“Damn right I have,” Cambric said under his breath. He was so annoyed they were even here, Evie wasn’t broken. She was a bit weird but she wasn’t broken.
William looked over the papers for a bit.
“…yeah, I’d say you have it,” he said, Cambric could’ve sworn he glanced at him for a sec, but that’s impossible, isn’t it? Only Evie can see him.
“So, I’ll just do some of the paper work, talk to your parents-“
“Good luck,” she said, under her breath. William caught that.
“…good luck?” He questioned, a bit concerned.
“Yeah,” she repeated.
“Good luck. They’re obsessed with the idea of a perfect little girl, there’s no way they’ll take that devastating news easily.”
“…everything ok at home?” William questioned, a bit concerned.
“Everything is fine,” Evie responded.
“I’m just being a teenager, comparing about my parents and whatnot.”
William just looked at her.
“…maybe we should do a follow up…?”
“Yeah that sounds good.”