Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 214 Ariel's past (17)

Vicky likes Mr. Strong, and remembers that Ariel likes him too.

One afternoon, when Ariel was raking dead leaves in the backyard, Mr. Strong happened to pass by and called Ariel.

She was daydreaming about Victoria Antoinette, and Ariel was thrilled that the teacher was the first to speak to her.

Isn't it sad that Ariel doesn't know about me, but always thinks about the fictional girl with the same name as me?
Vicki thought: Poor Ariel doesn't know even one of her avatars.

Vicki is on her first day at school and does well in all her classes.

This includes arithmetic, which Wiki has quietly learned over the years.

Vicky went home optimistic and confident.

As they approached the house, Vicky spotted Mrs. Dorset peering out of the window.

Mrs Dorset always seemed to be spying on people.

"Quick, let's visit a family," said Heidi,

"The Greens have a newborn baby, let's go check it out." Here we go again, Vicky thought, this almost daily bitch gossip, ok, here I go.Peggy Lu is always clamoring not to go, I need some diplomacy.

In the weeks that followed, Vicky got a good look at the small town of Willow Corners.

The townspeople have neither grace nor honor.

Narrow, rustic, and silly are adjectives to describe them.

Although she is only 12 years old, she has surpassed them.

She was sure she was miles and miles away from them.

As for Ariel's parents...

Dad was all right, but he didn't do much, in fact, he rarely poked his head out from behind the newspaper or the blueprints to see what he could do.

And the mother was another matter.She always says:
"You should do this and that." Wiki thinks:
This is what prevents Ariel from doing things. There are always people urging you to do this and not to do that. No one can do things.

Heidi Dorset was elusive, though.

She either cared too much about one thing, or she didn't care at all.

But Viki was comforted by the knowledge that she was here to help, and that after a while her own parents and many siblings would be coming to fetch her back to Paris.

How she longed for this day of family reunion.

Contrasting her parents with the Dorsets, she felt guilty for her luck.

She resolved to arrange as best she could before leaving the family to give Ariel many days to live.

Poor Ariel.

On several occasions, Vicky retreated into the depths, allowing other avatars and even Ariel herself to sit in the classroom for lessons.

One day, Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorset was sitting in the sixth-grade chair.

She was featured in the first year of Peggy Lou's two-year tenure.

Before the day's class was over, Mary suddenly felt unwell, not pain, but a sense of stretching.

When she got home, Mary went to the bathroom.

Grandpa is using the bathroom.

Heidi called out:
"Why don't you use another bathroom?"

What another bathroom?Mary didn't know there was such a bathroom until she learned that her father had built it the following year.

In the new bathroom, Mary blanched at the sight of what she later described as "a reddish-brown thing" on her panties.

She had seen her grandmother bleeding from cervical cancer and feared that she too was dying.

"What are you doing there so long?" cried Heidi.

"I'll come right out, Mom," Mary replied.

Mary felt that Ariel's mother was not her own, so she always referred to Heidi as "Mom", which seemed to be a general term for any older woman who took care of herself.

Mary stayed in the bathroom for a long time, washing the panties vigorously, keeping Heidi from knowing about it, and worrying about what happened to herself at the same time.

When I went to bed that night, my mother came in and said,
"Let me see your panties." Mary hesitated.

"Show me right away," Heidi ordered.

After Mary obeyed, Heidi commented:

"As I expected. It's your age, too bad. You're out of luck! It hurts here, doesn't it? It hurts there, doesn't it?"

Heidi poked hard at different places on Mary's body, making her more painful.

"This is menstruation." Heidi said as she prepared a cloth for Mary to wear.

"Only women. Don't tell your father." So Heidi strode out of the bedroom, muttering,

"Women's bad luck, bad luck. I hope men are also bad luck. This will be their retribution. These men!"

Mary was terrified when her mother said "period".Heidi used the slang term sick time.

Literally, sick means being sick and having to stay at home and not go to school, and going to school can get rid of Heidi.

Mary wanted to get rid of it.

The next day, the mother explained: Girls with this disease go to school as usual.

So Mary went to school again.

Mary didn't know that before this, Ariel had been using this thing for two consecutive months without pain, and she didn't let Heidi know.

Since Mary's period, Ariel and the other avatars have felt pain when they menstruate.

In sixth grade, Mary also popped in a few times, but most of the time it was Vicki who called the shots.

One day before the end of the term, Ariel arrives at school feeling that her imaginary Victoria is leading her there.

But coming back this time is not as scary as it was in the fifth grade.

Although Ariel still finds time to be "weird," she's more at ease.

At this point, Mary tells Vicky about Danny Martin:

"Ariel didn't know that Danny was jealous of Billy Denton when Peggy Lou was in charge. Peggy Lou didn't pay attention to Danny at all, but she definitely had a crush on Billy."

"Yes," Vicky agreed, "she does.

And Billy never understood:--after Ariel's return--why the Dorset girl treated him like a stranger. "

Over the ensuing months, Ariel went into and out of time gaps.

In order to conceal this fact, she has gradually become the pinnacle of affectation, especially in improvisation, which is more unique.

Unfortunately, she couldn't hide from herself the sense of loss - as if she was nobody and belonged nowhere.

And it seems to get worse with age.

She began to destroy herself silently with self-deprecating words:

"There's a reason I'm so skinny — I don't deserve the space."

Spring was so bad because of my grandmother's death.

Now summer is coming, and summer will be sad because Danny is gone.

Whether sitting on the front steps or swinging on the swing, Ariel always thinks about the summer Danny left.

In late spring, Ariel confronts the catastrophe of her adolescent vulnerability—transformative hysteria.

Hysteria is a disorder caused by emotional conflict, generally characterized by immaturity, dependence, and use of defense mechanisms (not only dissociative but transformative).

Hysteria manifests as dramatic physical symptoms involving the voluntary muscles and special senses.

During transformation, unconscious impulses become physical symptoms.then.Emotional conflict manifests itself physically.

Suddenly, Ariel will lose feeling in half her face and one arm.

Her half would be weak, but it could be this, it could be that.

Her throat was almost always sore and she had trouble swallowing.

She begins to have tunnel vision, often with vision in only one eye.

She and several other incarnations (notably Mary) suffer from a nervous fit that causes the townspeople as much consternation as the telephone operator.

Ariel or one of the avatars will contort, twitch, or perform various uninhibited movements.

If Ariel or one of the avatars wanted to run towards the door, they would just run in, and if they ran towards the door, they might hit the door frame.Another annoying symptom is the headache after the attack. The pain is so painful that Ariel has to sleep for several hours to get better. Ariel didn't sleep deeply at first, but after the attack, she fell into a deep sleep, as if she had taken some kind of anesthetic of.

The most disturbing ones are:

Life seems half-real, full of strange premonitions.

Ariel would recall where she had been or what she had done, as if in a dream.

Sometimes she seems to be by her side, walking side by side with herself.

Sometimes she couldn't tell if it was dreamlike reality or a real dream.

One night, Ariel told her parents about the situation, and they decided to take her to the town doctor Quinones.

Dr. Quinones diagnoses Ariel with Sydenham's chorea.

He believed that there was a psychological factor in it, so he suggested that Ariel see a psychiatrist, and made an appointment for her on the spot with a doctor who lived in Minneapolis.

Willard and Heidi refused to comply with the agreement to take her.

Willard claims:
If it's just a psychological factor, he can handle it himself.

So he bought Ariel a guitar and hired a luthier to teach her.

Both father and daughter practiced guitar, and later held several recitals.

As Vicky, Mary, Peggy Lou and several other incarnations all learned the piano with varying degrees of enthusiasm, Willard Dorsett's daughter played at varying levels of performance .

Despite her father's optimism, Ariel considers herself "mentally problematic", which is a disgraceful thing to do in the Dorset family or in the town.

So Ariel considered the state hospital again with apprehension.

Her uncle Roger worked as a purchaser in this hospital, and her sister Heidi worked as a nurse.

Ariel used to visit them both in the hospital.

In order not to be distracted from thinking about those worrying things, Ariel devoted herself to her homework.

But at school she also worried because she knew nothing about European history.

It was Wikipedia who learned history, just as Peggy Lou once learned multiplication.

However, Ariel learned science quickly and well.

She was so fascinated by Mr. Strong's explanations of the mysteries of human anatomy that she did not notice that he carefully bypassed the organ.

The course stipulated that each student should draw a large heart image, so Heidi bought a red and blue pencil for Ariel, which made Ariel feel as if she had become a teacher who judged the paper.

Ariel's daydreams are filled with heart cycles and doctors, as she imagines herself to be, explaining the function of the heart to a patient.

One day, Ariel rushed into the house after school and told her mother about the function of the heart.

"I don't want to hear this," Heidi said.

But Ariel was still very excited, and continued to tell her mother what she had learned.

"How many times have I had to tell you I'm not at all interested?"

Heidi screamed, slapping her daughter.

Ariel had been standing on the polished linoleum in the sunroom when she was punched at the side and slipped and fell on the easy chair and landed.

Her ribs were bruised and bruised.

From this point on, Ariel dreaded science courses and had a hard time passing biology courses in high school and college, although science continued to fascinate her.She is also afraid of uncarpeted rooms.

That night, Heidi took Ariel to go shopping on the street.

It was Wednesday, and the shops were open at night.

There is a popcorn stand on the corner, and popsicles are sold in the pharmacy.

The kids were always asking their parents for a nickel or a dime, but Ariel didn't ask.

Heidi asked, "What would you like tonight? Popcorn or popsicles?"

Ariel replied, "Anything goes,"

She dared not tell anyone her secret about the time gap, and she dared not ask anyone for anything.

When the mother and daughter were eating popsicles, Ariel saw some hair bows on a counter. She thought they were so beautiful and hoped that her mother would ask her if she wanted to buy one.

But Heidi walked past the counter and saw the bow, but kept walking towards the corridor. Ariel knew that there was no hope.

So Vicki decided to let her make the request.

"I'd love to have one," she said, pointing to a light blue bow. "It would go with our blue organdy dress."

"What do you mean by 'we', you woodenhead?" Heidi replied,

"You don't know that organza dress is yours?"

Heidi paid for the bow.

What is the relationship between Vicky and Ariel, Mary and Ariel, Peggy Lou and Ariel?Dr. Wilbur decides to ask the all-knowing Wiki.

The day was June 6, and the psychoanalysis had been going on for nine months.

Both the doctor and Vicky sat on the couch.

"Vicky," the doctor asked, "I want to ask you: are you some kind of relative of Ariel?"

Vicky responded in shock, "You know I know Ariel because you asked me about her, don't you?"

"Yes," agreed the doctor, "I know you know her. But how do you know what's on her mind?"

Vicky's only response was an amusing smile.

"Vicky," the doctor stepped down,
"You were talking about our blue organdy dress. What else do you have in common with the others?"

"Common?" Vicki's tone was sarcasm. "We sometimes work together."

"You once told me that the mothers mentioned earlier had the same mother, didn't you? If so, can you say that they have one mother in common?"

"Yeah, I think you can say that."

"Do they also share a body?"

"This is so boring." Wiki's answer is quite authoritative. "They're human beings. I can tell you about them."

"Yes, Vicky, I know they are all human beings. But people are related to each other. What is the relationship between Peggy Lou, Peggy Ann, Mary, Ariel, etc.? Are they sisters?"

"Nobody said they were sisters." Vicky stared at the doctor.

"Indeed not," said the doctor emphatically.
"No one has said that. But, Wiki, if there are several people with the same mother, then they must be sisters or brothers if they are not the same person."

Viki didn't seem to understand what the doctor meant, and agreed: "I have many brothers and sisters, and we share a father and a mother."

"That's right, Vicky," the doctor went on, "you admit your family relationship, but you don't mention the family relationship of Ariel, Mary, the two Peggies, etc."

Vicky shrugged and said, "Well, Doctor, didn't you just say they must be sisters?"

"No, Vicky," said the doctor firmly,
"I didn't say they were necessarily sisters. I just asked you whether they were sisters. I also said that if several people have the same mother, then logically they must be either sisters or brothers if they are not the same person. "

Wiki is speechless.

The doctor ruthlessly continued to follow the logic:
"Hey, Vicki, tell me, are they sisters, or the same person?"

Wikipedia replied very prudently under questioning:
"Doctor, since you are like this, I have to admit that they must be sisters. They can only be sisters, because they cannot be the same person!"

Vicky opened the bag, put on lipstick, closed the bag, pinned it under his arm, and ended the conversation.

"Mon Dieu," she said, rising to go,
"It is absurd to conceive of these complete persons as one and the same. Marianne Ludlow and I are much more alike than any two or three persons you have just mentioned."

(End of this chapter)