It WOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY.

It WOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY.

The next day.

Their bedroom was calm, soft & sweet... On Johnny's end.

"Are you gay?" Candy said standing in front of his bed looking as though he had cheated even though he literally did not cheat on her, kicking the same ball over & over while Johnny smuggled under the covers in bed & Candy stood in the corner.

Johnathan looks up at her and got out of bed and cuddled her saying "Don't worry, you've got a lover in me," rocking her from side to side.

Candy was confused by this since he acted like he loved her.

Candy says "A man existing with the ability to... Deny the urge of sex... Exists without my consent..."

This in turn weirded out Johnny: "The heck? What?!"

The Next day.

Candy is at the gym with Johnny, they're working out on those cool bikes that let you sit & exercise at the same time with a TV to watch my 700lb life.

Candy noticed he was looking around, & he glanced at a muscular man in the distance. He looks at her, his eyes get this gleam, then he points at the guy and says "Look! That's how I wanna get when I'm done here!"

Candy looks over at that man with this...

Something is wrong.

It's like this intense jealousy. It doesn't go away. It won't go away.

"Are you gay?" She asks, & Johnny's like "What? No. I'm straight." Then he focused on My 700lb life because the story genuinely interested him.

Candy stared dead at the man working out. That man whose name was Christopher Jonesboro noticed her as he was doing pull-ups.

Christopher Jonesboro stopped & walked up to her & said "Hey... You're So cute~" Obviously about to flirt with a woman he has no idea has compartmentalized him as competition.

Candy looks him up & down and looks at Johnny & asks "Do you want to screw this guy?" Flicking her pointer at Christopher.

Johnny says "That's my girl, & no." Obviously threatened by Christopher.

What threw Johnny off was "There's a weirdly dead stare in your eyes..." As she looked at him.

It was like these hollow, but really wide eyes...

Like.... she was angry...? or stunned...? or shocked...? but he couldn't really describe it...?

It was just so creepy...

The only word that could really describe that appearance was creepy...

It's like... Candy was angry at him for absolutely nothing...?

What threw him off even more was when Candy looked at Christopher & told him: "I'm gonna #$_- you. Now leave us alone." Then Candy stood up and pulled his finger to her mouth 👄 and gently bit it...

Then Candy bit down so hard so suddenly that it made Christopher cry out in agony.

Johnny was... Flabbergasted as the man was pulling his finger away but she wouldn't let go.

Johnny pulled her off of him, then Candy shoved him off with "You're protecting that other man because you're using me to hide that you're gay!"

Johnny was bewildered — "What the heck do you mean?!"

Candy stomps on his foot, then screams "If you love me, this will drive you away from him!" Then ran up to Christopher & pecked him on the lips as Christopher backed off.

Candy panics then ran back & kissed Johnathan by force then started apologizing: "I'm sorry, I did it so you wouldn't leave me for him!"

Johnathan is confused — "Why would- Why- Wh- W- Why? W- Why?! Why! Wh- What- Wh-"

Johnathan took her home on the way home asked her "Why would you kiss another man so that I wouldn't like the other man in the attempt to get me not to leave you? I'm so confused."

Candy is completely distraught, flabbergasted at her own impulsive decisions, & now completely consumed by the idea that he's going to leave her: "Do you still love me?"

Johnathan said "I do, but you are acting really, really crazy right now."

Jonathan was disturbed by the sheer fact that this was something that she could very easily do.

Candy isn't someone who is the type to deny insanity, so she's just going to be honest with him: "I know, I know I am."

At home, he asks sitting on the bed with them cuddling under the covers atop some pastel pink pillows "I think we should go to therapy. You want to go to therapy? I think you should go to therapy..."

Candy replies "Therapy is useless."

Johnny replied "The issue with older men who go to therapy and then say, 'Therapy is useless!' is that they stop going to therapy sessions even though they have schizophrenia and know it.

In my opinion, they know that they're mentally ill, and they know that they're schizophrenic, but they've never seen improvement.

They may never have been prescribed any medication, or they were prescribed medication that didn't work. They may have accidentally gotten a therapist who wants to keep them mentally ill so the therapist can continue making money off that individual.

As a result, they stop going to therapy altogether because they don't see any of their issues getting better. Or maybe they're not willing to do the things the therapist tells them to do, but it's also possible that those things are really difficult or nearly impossible to do."

Candy says "Let me correct you. The issue with older men who go to therapy, and then they say, 'therapy is useless!' and they just stop going to therapy sessions, even though they have schizophrenia and they know it, because they know that they're mentally ill, they know that they're schizophrenic, but they've never seen improvement."

Mimicking her, He says "They probably were never even prescribed any meds, or they were prescribed meds, but the meds don't work, or they accidentally got a therapist who wants to keep them mentally ill so that the therapist can continue making money off of that individual."

And she finished with "As a result, they just stopped going to therapy altogether because they don't really see any of their issues getting better, or maybe they're not willing to do the things that therapist tells them to, but it's also possible that it's really difficult or near impossible to do so."

To be Continued...