Chapter 2 THE NAME ON THE FORM

Upon hearing that while she is heading for the door, she stops in her tracks, tempted to turn back to give Chris Hanks the tongue-lashing he deserves but she tells herself he is not worth it and walks out of the conference room, out of the Discover You Center and to her car. Getting into the driver's seat, she turns on the ignition, revs it four times in the infuriation she feels in her heart and drives off angrily hoping she never gets to see him again for the rest of her life but fate has no respect for her wishes.

A few hours after her first encounter with Chris Hanks, a man she hopes never to see again for the rest of her life, he arrives at her office for a consultation. Unknown to Chris Hanks that Nicole Collette is the chief psychologist at the Firebloom Health Center, Oregon, he waits patiently to see her for a consultation unknowingly.

When she receives his folder from her receptionist on her digital filing system in her office with his name on it, she is taken aback, quietly wishing it is not the same unruly fellow she had met at the conference only a few hours ago.

"Oh no, not you again," she says the moment this tall, fair, slender man dressed in cashmere walks into her office wearing that same smile he had when she saw him earlier in the day. "What are you doing here?"

"You are a psychologist, aren't you?" Chris Hanks says with that same arrogance she witnessed a few hours ago. "You should know what I am here for. I'm here for a consultation."

"Arrrghhh," she says wondering why the impoliteness.

"What's that for?" he asks. "I mean aren't you a psychologist? Isn't it consultations you do?"

"Wait a minute," Nicole Collette begins, riddled with astonishment. "Are you always this rude or do you specifically have an issue with me that I am not aware of?"

"My dear, don't flatter yourself", Chris Hanks advises. "You are not worth having an issue with."

"Please, Mr. Hanks or whatever your name is," she queries about to lose it just like she did at the conference. "What are you here for? Can you tell me what the problem is or leave my office because I'm not sure I am ready to be insulted in my office the same way you insulted me at the Center earlier today."

"There you go again," Chris Hanks begins. "I didn't even know you were the one I was coming to see for this consultation but immediately I walked through that door and saw you, I wanted to apologize, infact that was why I was smiling when I came in but because you are just a self-absorbed creature who feels the world revolves around her and her thoughts, you instantly concluded the smile was an invitation to warfare. Who raised you?"

"That's enough, Mr. Hanks," Nicole Collette says with frustration in her voice. "If all you came here to do is continue the insults you bathed me with earlier today. I am afraid I would have to ask you to leave immediately."

"You see I was just coming in to make good the reason for that conference of earlier today but I guess there would be no need investing here any longer because it is clear this facility does not need it or even if they need it, they'd never get it because of people like you who only think about themselves and care less about the rest of the world around them," Mr. Chris Hanks queries just as he gets to the door to take his leave. "Maybe instead of using your bad attitude or unnecessary reservations to deny this organization wonderful opportunities, you should go on and build your own. That way, you can use your own money and fund it careless of whatever anyone thinks about what you do or how you do it."