“I’m looking out from inside the
chaos. It must be a one-way mirror because no one seems to be able to
see back inside to where I am. The looks on their faces, the judgment
in their eyes, tells me everything I need to know. The most
frustrating part about the whole messed up situation is that even
though I’m the one that they stare at in shock, I am just as
shocked as they are. I know no more than they do of why I lose
control. What they don’t know is that I am more scared of myself
than they could ever be.” ~ Tally Baker
After a devastating turn of events,
seventeen year old Tally Baker is admitted to Mercy Psychiatric
Facility where she is diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. She has come
to a place where she honestly believes that her life is over. Her
mind tells her that she will never smile or laugh again, that she
will never be normal again. It is in this unlikely place that she
meets two people, different in every way, yet both critical to
helping her realize that she has so much more living to do.
Candy, a cantankerous sixty year old
Mercy Psychiatric patient, is hell bent on driving everyone as crazy
as she is. Candy shows Tally that, regardless of her diagnosis, the
ability to push on and live her life to the fullest is her choice and
hers alone. In the midst of Tally’s oftentimes humorous, sometimes
heart-wrenching, escapades with Candy, a new patient is admitted to
Mercy—a Native American woman named Lolotea. Along with this new
patient comes a daily visitor, her son, Trey Swift. At first glance,
it is obvious to Tally that he is incredibly handsome and
unbelievably caring. But what she learns through her second glance,
and many thereafter, is that there is much more to Trey than he ever
lets on. It is during these daily visits that Trey and Tally build a
friendship far deeper than either of them truly realize. With Trey,
Tally feels for the first time since being admitted that someone is
looking at her as a person and not as a disease. Trey begins to make
it clear that he wants more than friendship, but she knows that she
can never give him more. How can she, when she won’t even give him
the truth? Tally doesn’t tell Trey that she is a patient at Mercy,
and she doesn’t ever plan to. Her plans go up in flames when she
finds out that Trey is a new student at her school, the school where
her brokenness was found out in the floor of the girl’s bathroom in
a pool of her own blood.
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“Crap Candy,”
I growl at my snickering companion as I rub my side and glare at her.
“What was that for?”
“A better
question would be why were you hunkered down under the table drooling
over Kemosabe?”
I frown at her.
“That’s tacky don’t you think?”
“I’m sixty
years old and crazy; I can do tacky if I want,” she snorts at me.
I can’t really
argue with her there. Like pregnant women, old, crazy ladies pretty
much get a free pass on crassness and eccentricity.
“So come on,”
she pats the chair that I had so quickly vacated, “tell Candy all
about it.”
I roll my eyes.
“He just took me off guard, that’s all,” I lie smoothly.
Candy isn’t
buying it. “He was hot, just admit it. Hot and he got you
bothered.”
I cringe. “Candy,
you calling a guy young enough to be your grandson hot is just not
right.”
“Psht,” she
flips her hand at me. “I’m old, not blind or dead. Besides, I
didn’t say I wanted to jump his exotic bones.”
I groan as I bang
my head against the table. “Where do you learn these terms? I mean
it’s not normal for someone your age to blurt out crap like that.”
“Did you just
use the term normal in a sentence describing me?” She raises her
brow surprisingly at me.
I laugh. “Good
point.”
Quinn lives in beautiful NW Arkansas with her husband, son, Doberman and cat (who thinks she is a ninja in disguise). She is beyond thankful that she has been blessed to be able to write full time and hopes the readers know how much all of their support means to her. Some of her hobbies include reading, exercising, crochet, and spending time with family and friends. She gives all credit of her success to God because he gave her the creative spirit and vivid imagination it takes to write.
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Cool excerpt. thanks for sharing.
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