Diane D Is Back In The Mental Institution
The following week, Alex is walking down the organization hallway. He goes to the right and heads towards Margarita’s office door. He approaches the door and knocks on it.
“Come in!” Margarita’s voice says.
Alex opens the office door. He heads into the office and sees Margarita right at her desk. “Hey Miss Margarita!” he says.
“Hey Alex,” Margarita says.
Alex shuts the door behind himself. He heads right towards Margarita’s desk and says, “Hi Miss Margarita! How’ve you been?”
Alex approaches Margarita’s desk and says, “I haven’t seen you all week. Is everything alright?”
“Yeah everything is okay so far Alex,” Margarita says. “I was staying at the mental institution with Diane all week.”
“You were?”
“Yes I was.”
“That’s good! How’s she doing?”
“She’s doing okay so far.”
“She is?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, I’m so glad to hear that Miss Margarita. I’m glad to hear that Diane’s okay. So if you’re here at the organization, who’s at the mental institution with Diane now?”
“Her grandma Gracy and her grandpa Mike are there with her.”
“They are?”
“Yeah, so are her aunt Jean, her aunt Laura and her aunt Celeste.”
“Oh her aunt Jean, her aunt Laura and her aunt Celeste are there too?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow, that’s good Miss Margarita! That is so good! I’m so happy that Diane has a lot of family by her side, and again Miss Margarita, the staff and I are very sorry if we have hurt Diane’s feelings. We didn’t mean to hurt her feelings.”
“I understand Alex.”
“Thanks. So anyway, I hear that you and your family are planning to do a Fundraiser for the victims’ families.”
“We are. I mean we can’t bring those authority figures back, but it’s the least we can do for their families.”
“Wow I think that’s wonderful Miss Margarita! What kind of fundraising are you all planning to do?”
“Well we’re going to put on a concert and sell tickets to raise money for the victims and their families.”
“Oh yeah? You’re going to put on a concert?”
“Yes. We’re going to have all the talent from the organization do performances.”
“Really? When?”
“I guess whenever Diane comes back out the mental institution.”
“What! Whenever Diane comes back out the mental institution?! Wait a minute Miss Margarita! Don’t tell me that Diane is going to be in the show, is she?”
“Yes she’s going to be in the show Alex.”
“She is?!”
“Yes.”
“How come?!”
“She wants to perform.”
“She wants to perform?!”
“Yeah. Plus she feels real bad about what happened to the authority figures.”
“She feels real bad about what happened to them?!”
“Yeah and wants to help out.”
“She wants to help out?!”
“Yes she does. She wants to show support for what happened to the victims.”
“She wants to show support for what happened to the victims? You mean she wants to help out and show support for what SHE did to them?”
“Well she doesn’t think she did anything to them Alex! She still doesn’t remember anything about it! Try to look at it from HER point of view. She doesn’t remember doing anything to them! She heard about what happened to them, but she doesn’t remember being involved in it because her ORIGINAL soul, spirit or personality was not there! So therefore, she doesn’t believe she was ever involved because it was actually her OTHER personality involved, not her ORIGINAL personality.”
“Wow, that is so sad! I really feel for Diane Miss Margarita! I really do!”
“Thanks.”
“So what kind of performance is she going to do?”
“She’s going to sing and dance like she always do.”
“She’s going to sing and dance? Where? Where is she going to perform? Is the show or concert going to be at the mental institution?”
“No, we’re going to have it at a theater.”
“At a theater?! You’re going to have the show or concert at a theater?!”
“Yes we are.”
“Wouldn’t Diane still be on house arrest?!”
“Yes she’ll still be on house arrest.”
“So how is she going to perform at a theater while she’s on house arrest?!”
“She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped back on her ankles while she’s performing at the theater.”
“What! She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles while she’s performing?!”
“Yes.”
“I don’t get it! How can she perform in front of ALL those people in the audience with ankle monitors strapped around her ankles? Won’t she be afraid that the people in the audience will see those ankle monitors and judge her for what she did?!”
“No she won’t be afraid Alex, because she still doesn’t believe she did anything wrong!”
“Whether she believes she did anything wrong or not, those ankle monitors will still be there! They will be exposed! The audience members are going to see them and judge her for it! They might be distracted by it and not enjoy the show! Would Diane really want to put herself out there while her ankle monitors are exposed? How does she feel about that? Does she have any thoughts about that at all?”
“Yeah she thought about that Alex, but she says she’s not going to worry about it. She says all she knows, is that she wants to perform so she can show support for the victims and their families. She says it’s the least she can do.”
“I see. Well I’m glad she wants to do something for the victims and their families, even though she doesn’t believe she’s the cause of their suffering. So what are you all planning to do about the ankle monitors? Are you planning to have them covered up while Diane performs?”
“Yes we’re planning to cover up her ankle monitors.”
“You are?”
“Yes, because we certainly don’t need those monitors being a distraction from the performance.”
“I think Diane’s presence alone will be a distraction from the performance. So who is she going to perform with? Is she going to perform by herself?”
“No, with the girls again.”
“With the girls?! You mean Nancy, Charlotte, Miranda, Bernice, Lonna and Kelly? Diane is going to perform with them?!”
“Yeah, as a matter of fact, Diane and the girls are all planning to rehearse their performance at the mental institution.”
“They’re planning to rehearse there?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, do they have space at the mental institution to rehearse at?”
“Yes, they have an exercise and dance studio there. Diane and the girls will rehearse in that room.”
“They will? That’s nice. Wow, Diane is lucky to still have the girls and her family still by her side, but aren’t the girls afraid to perform with her?! Aren’t they afraid to even be around her?!”
“They’re afraid of her OTHER personality, not her original personality. They say as long as her OTHER personality stays away, they will still be with Diane and be there for her because they still love her original personality. They know that her original personality wouldn’t have done what her OTHER personality did.”
“Even though it’s the same body, they’re still not afraid to be around her.”
“Of course they’re afraid, but what can they do? What can any of us do? We still want to be there for Diane. The girls all come to the mental institution to visit her and stay with her sometimes.”
“They do?”
“Yes they do.”
“Have any of the other girls ever met Diane’s other personality or encounter her other personality besides Nancy?”
“No, just Nancy so far.”
“Still just Nancy?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, but how would the girls know whether they’ve ever encountered Diane’s other personality or not?”
“Well Nancy says from the experience she had encountering Diane’s other personality inside my family’s home that night and the experience I had encountering Diane’s other personality inside her hospital room bathroom is, if Diane’s eyes appear puffy or swollen, or if her face looks like she just got beat up like she was in a fight or something and her skin tone appears sort of ghostly pale, that’s her other personality.”
“Wooow. That must have been real scary for you and Nancy, wasn’t it?”
“It sure was! It’s still scary for us!”
“Wooow. So far Charlotte still hasn’t encountered Diane’s other personality face to face, has she?”
“No, she just heard Diane’s other personality and Nancy talking in the hallway outside the bedrooms that night.”
“Wooow, that is something! Well, anyway, I’m willing to help out with the fundraising anyway I can.”
“Oh thanks Alex.”
“No problem Miss Margarita. It’s the least I can do.”
“Thanks. Let’s go into the meeting room and talk about it more.”
“Okay.”
Margarita turns her chair to the side and gets up from her desk as Alex turns and heads back towards the door. Alex approaches the door and opens it. He turns his head towards Margarita and holds the door open for her as she heads towards the doorway.
A week later, staff members Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice are at the organization chit-chatting in the hallway. They turn to the side and see Diane D’s mom Mary coming down the hallway. They then shout, “Mary!”
“Wow Mary!” Harvey shouts. “What a surprise to see you!”
Mary approaches Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice as Harvey says, “We haven’t seen you in a while! How’ve you been?!”
“Not so good,” Mary says.
“We know,” Stephanie says. “You’ve been going through a lot from what happened with Diane last year, haven’t you?”
“I sure have.”
“We’re so sorry for you Mary. So you’ve been going to the therapist office back and forth, that’s why we haven’t seen you much, huh?”
“Yep, that’s why. Not every mother goes through this, their own child killing six people, especially taking down six authority figures and injuring plenty others and gets to witness it. I mean who can live with seeing their own child doing that?”
“Wow Mary!” Harvey says. “We’re so sorry you’re going through this! How long will you have to keep going through therapy?”
“Probably for the rest of my life.”
“Oh God.”
“We hear you and the rest of your family who were inside that hypnosis room are still traumatized by what happened in there,” Maurice says. “We hear you all still get nightmares from what you all witnessed.”
“We do,” Mary says. “That’s why we’re all still going through therapy. That therapist office became our second home.”
“Wow, I’m so sorry Mary.”
“So are you planning to participate in the fundraising concert for the victims Mary?” Evette asks.
“Sure,” Mary says, “if I’m up to it. It’s the least I can do for what my child did to all those people.”
“Wow Mary,” Stephanie says. “I know you and your family are sorry that you all ever agreed to have Diane hypnotized!”
“Well what else were we supposed to do after Nancy told us about Diane’s strange behavior inside my family’s upstairs hallway that night?”
“You mean when Diane said to Nancy that ‘Diane isn’t here right now’ and that ‘she’s not Diane’ then telling Nancy that Diane is somewhere wandering the universe, speaking of herself in the third person as if she was someone else?”
“Yes, exactly.”
“Wow.”
“Nancy thought that Diane was joking at first when Diane was saying all that strange stuff to her.”
“She thought Diane was joking?”
“Yes, then Nancy said she could see right in Diane’s eyes that Diane was not joking.”
“She could see it in her eyes?”
“That’s what she said.”
“My God Mary!” Harvey shouts, “that would freak anybody out! I know I would be freaked out if any of my family members said that to me ‘that they’re not here right now’ that ‘they’re not their self’! I would be freaked out! How is Nancy still handling that experience she went through with Diane that night?”
“She’s still creeped out by it.”
“I bet she is, realizing now it was not Diane’s original personality she was encountering with, but her ‘OTHER’ personality! Wow that is scaaary! Diane still doesn’t remember any of that? She still doesn’t remember running into Nancy in the upstairs hallway that night saying all that stuff to her?”
“No, to this day, she still does not remember it.”
“My God!”
“What about what she said to your mom inside her hospital bathroom that night?” Evette asks. “She still doesn’t remember that either, huh?”
“No she still doesn’t remember that either,” Mary says, “just like she doesn’t remember the bloodshed she did inside that hypnosis room.”
“My God! But you remember it, huh Mary.”
“That’s why I’m going to therapy because I wish I not remember it! I wish I can forget it!”
“Wooow. So sorry Mary. How is Michael by the way? We don’t see him much either. Where’s he been?”
“He’s been going back and forth to therapy like the rest of my family. Everyone who was inside that hypnosis room who witnessed the whole entire thing is going back and forth to therapy.”
“My God.”
“Plus Michael has been going back and forth between staying with Diane at the mental institution and going to stay at his parents’ house in Virginia.”
“Oh Michael stays in Virginia now?” Stephanie asks.
“Sometimes. Sometimes he stays over at the mental institution with Diane, other times he’s in therapy.”
“My God Mary, how does he handle being married to Diane after what she did?!”
“That’s why he’s going through therapy, to help him handle and cope with what she did. It hasn’t been easy for him. He’s been stressed out by this whole thing. It hasn’t been easy for any of us!”
“Well of course not! I can imagine!”
“Wow Mary,” Harvey says. “I feel so sorry for your whole family.”
“Thanks. Well, I’m gonna help my family plan for the fundraising concert.”
“Okay. Is there anything we can do to help?”
“Yes. You all can help plan with the concert after the meeting I have with my family.”
“Okay no problem Mary.”
“I’ll see you all later.”
“Okay Mary,” Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice say. Mary then goes pass the staff members and walk down towards the other end of the hallway as Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice turn and sadly look at her.
“Just hang in there Mary!” Stephanie says.
Mary turns her head towards Stephanie and says, “I’ll try.” She turns her head back forward as she continues to walk down the hallway.
Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice sadly look at Mary.
The following day, Margarita is sitting inside her office behind her desk doing paper work. The phone rings. Margarita picks up the phone receiver. She speaks into the phone receiver and says, “Hello, Diaz Davidson Organization.”
“Hello Miss Margarita?” a white nun around her mid-60’s wearing glasses says.
“Speaking.”
“Hi Miss Margarita. This is Sister Rose from the convent. We met a few times before.”
“Oh yes, hi Sister Rose! How you doing?!”
“I’m doing okay, and yourself?”
“I’m doing okay too! Nice to hear from you.”
“Nice to hear you too Miss Margarita! How is everything?”
“Everything is good, and yourself?”
“I’m doing okay.”
“That’s good.”
‘How’s your granddaughter Diane D? How’s she doing?”
“Oh Diane? She’s doing okay so far.”
“She is?”
“Yes she is.”
“That’s good. Is she back in the mental institution?”
“Yes she’s back in the mental institution.”
“She is?”
“Yes.”
“Oh okay. I just wanted to let you know, that us nuns at the convent know your granddaughter Diane D and the rest of your family have been going through a lot from what happened last year with the authority figures that your granddaughter Diane D killed. A few of us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to meet your granddaughter Diane D and have a sit down talk with her, if it’s okay.”
“What?”
“A few of us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to meet your granddaughter Diane D and have a sit down talk with her.”
“Meet Diane and have a sit down talk with her? Are you serious?”
“Of course I’m serious Miss Margarita! We would like to talk to your granddaughter and try to see if we can help her with her problem.”
“But mostly everyone is afraid to come near Diane or even be in the same room with her after what happened last year!”
“I know. We just want to let your granddaughter know that some of us do want to help her and let her know that God still loves her. We’re nuns and that’s what we do. So if it’s okay, can a few of us nuns come to the mental institution and have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Diane D and try to help her?”
“Well sure I don’t mind. If it’s okay with Diane, then it’s okay with me, as long as you’re not coming to the mental institution to exploit her.”
“Coming to the mental institution to exploit her? What do you mean by that Miss Margarita?”
“I just want to make sure that you’re not bringing any hidden recording devices to exploit my granddaughter while you’re talking with her!”
“Bring any hidden recording devices?”
“Yes! So if you you’re saying that you want to come help Diane, I want you to mean it, not say it just so you can come to the mental institution to be nosy and see how she’s living!”
“To be nosy and see how’s she living? You don’t have to worry about that Miss Margarita, we’re not trying to be nosy! When I say us nuns want to try to talk to your granddaughter to see if we can help her, I mean it!”
“Alright then, because the minute I feel that my grandchild is being exploited, I’m going to end your talk with her pronto!”
“No problem! You got it Miss Margarita!”
“Okay. So when would you like to have a sit down talk with Diane?”
“Oh as soon as possible.”
“As soon as possible?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. I’ll speak to Diane about it and see if it’s okay with her. If she says that it’s okay, then I’ll let you know when you can come to the mental institution and have a sit down talk with her.”
“Thanks Miss Margarita, but us nuns would only come to have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Diane D on one condition.”
“What? You would only come to have a sit down talk with Diane on one condition?”
“Yes.”
“And what condition is that Sister Rose?”
“Is that you and your other family members be in the room with Diane D while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“What? You want me and my other family members to be in the room with Diane while you’re having a sit down talk with her?”
“Well yes.”
“Why?”
“Because we don’t want to be alone inside the room with her!”
“You don’t want to be alone inside the room with Diane?”
“No.”
“Well why not? You don’t trust her?”
“Well, it’s not that we don’t trust her.”
“It’s not that you don’t trust her? So what’s the problem then?”
“The problem is, we don’t trust her ‘other’ personality.”
“What? You don’t trust her ‘other’ personality?”
“No we don’t trust it and we want to keep that ‘other’ personality of hers at bay, because we heard that ‘other’ personality don’t come into Diane D if her family members are around her! That’s why us nuns would rather have you and your other family members be in the room with her!”
“Oh yeah? Is that right?”
“Well yeah! You didn’t think us nuns would want to risk being alone inside the room with Diane D and encounter her ‘other’ personality if her family members aren’t there, did you?”
“I thought you weren’t afraid of Diane Sister Rose, since you’re the one who wanted to have a sit down talk with her!”
“I never said we weren’t afraid of your granddaughter Miss Margarita. I said us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to talk to your granddaughter and try to see if we can help her with her problem because that’s what we do, I never said we weren’t afraid of her. The truth is, we ARE afraid of your granddaughter Miss Margarita, I mean we’re afraid of her ‘other’ personality, that’s why we would rather have you and your other family members be inside the room with your granddaughter while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“Well I wasn’t going to allow Diane to be alone inside the room with you anyway.”
“You weren’t?”
“No, of course not! My family and I have to keep our eyes on Diane at all times!”
“You do?”
“Yes we do!”
“Oh that’s good! Oh, I didn’t mean to say it like that Miss Margarita.”
“I understand Sister Rose.”
“Thanks. Another condition that us nuns would like to have, is that while you and your other family members are inside the room with Diane D, we would like to know if you all can surround her while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“Surround her?! Now wait a minute! You want me and my family members to surround Diane while you nuns are having a sit down talk with her?”
“Yes, if it’s okay.”
“Now why do you want Diane surrounded by us Sister Rose?”
“In case that ‘other’ personality suddenly appears inside of her and goes berserk, it would have to go through your family members on all sides before it can get to us nuns!”
“Go through my family members on all sides before it can get to you?”
“Well yeah, that way us nuns will have time to escape while that ‘other’ personality of hers is busy trying to go through all your family members!”
“Is that right?”
“Well of course! You didn’t think us nuns would want to take the risk of that ‘other’ personality attacking us if your other family members aren’t in the room surrounding Diane D, did you?”
“Well in order for my other family members to surround Diane, it would take a lot of family members to do that! Wouldn’t you find a lot of family members surrounding Diane be a distraction while you’re trying to talk with her helping her?”
“We’d rather have the distraction than risk being alone inside the room with that ‘other’ personality of hers!”
“Sister Rose, if you’re THAT afraid of Diane or her ‘other’ personality, do you nuns really want to try to have a sit down talk with her?”
“Of course we want to try to have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Miss Margarita, because that’s what we do, but we don’t want to take the chance or risk of encountering or coming across that ‘other’ personality of hers unless her family members are there inside the room with her surrounding her on all sides!”
“I’m sorry Sister Rose, that’s not gonna happen.”
“What’s not going to happen Miss Margarita?”
“I’m not going to have my family members surround Diane while you’re trying to have a sit down talk with her!”
“You’re not?!”
“No way! Don’t you think that it will hurt Diane’s feelings if she sees and knows that you’d rather have her surrounded by her family members because you have doubts about her and don’t trust her? She’s not gonna want to have a sit down talk that way knowing in the back of her mind that you nuns have doubts about her and don’t trust her, knowing that you nuns will see her as a monster the same way everyone else sees her as! She’s already hurt by everyone treating her like she’s some type of monster, I can’t have you nuns adding to that!”
“Oh I’m sorry Miss Margarita! I guess we didn’t see it that way. I don’t want to have Diane D’s feelings be hurt. But you said you weren’t going to have Diane alone inside the room with us anyway because you and your family members have to keep your eyes on her at all times! So if you weren’t planning to have Diane D be alone inside the room with us nuns, who in your family were you planning to have inside the room with her?”
“I was planning to have just her mom and myself be inside the room with her while you nuns have a sit down talk with her.”
“You and her mom?”
“Yes, just us two. Diane does not need to be surrounded while you’re having a sit down talk with her.”
“I understand Miss Margarita. Okay, I’ll settle for just having you and her mom inside the room with her while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“You will?”
“Yes we will.”
“Okay Sister Rose. I’ll talk to Diane and her mom about it. If it’s okay with them, then you got yourself a sit down talk with Diane, okay?”
“Oh thank you Miss Margarita!”
“You’re welcome, and don’t be afraid. Talk to you soon.”
“Bye Miss Margarita. Thanks again. Bye.”
“Goodbye.” Margarita hangs up the phone.
A few days later, two Latino men and two Latino women are on a park bench sitting at tables chit-chatting as one of the women looks at an internet article on a smartphone with a headline that reads: THE DIAZ-DAVIDSON ORGANIZATION PLANS TO HAVE A FUNDRAISING CONCERT FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES! TICKETS ON SALE NOW! “Wow,” one of the women says. “The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for the victims and their families!”
“What?” one of the men says. “The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for the victims and their families?”
“Yeah.”
“What victims and their families?”
“You know, all those authority figures who were killed by Diane D’s other personality last year, that’s what victims!”
“Oh yeah?! The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for them?!”
“Yeah. I wonder why they’re giving a fundraising concert for the victims and their families.”
“Probably to help with that civil lawsuit that the victims’ families sued the doctors for!” the second man shouts.
“To help with that civil lawsuit? You think so?”
“I believe so.”
“Oh wow. And it says right here that Diane D is supposed to perform in the show!”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“Diane D is supposed to perform in the show!” the first man shouts. “You mean that killer is supposed to perform in the fundraising concert?!”
“That’s what it says!” the first woman shouts.
“Isn’t she locked back up in the mental institution?! I heard she was let out temporarily on house arrest, then she was sent back! Now she’s gonna be let out again!”
“I think so, on house arrest again.”
“On house arrest again?!”
“Yeah.”
“Where is the fundraising concert going to be held at?” the second woman asks.
“It says at a theater.”
“At a theater?!”
“That’s what it says.”
“How in the world is Diane D supposed to perform at a theater if she’s on house arrest?!” the second man shouts.
“I think she’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles.”
“What!” everyone else shouts. “Ankle monitors?!?