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.”
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“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 52
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 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 53
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?”
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“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!”
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“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,” Mary says. “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.”
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‘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 57
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.”
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“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 59
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?!”
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“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?!”
“She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles while she’s performing on stage?!” the first man shouts.
“I think so,” the first woman says.
“How can she go out there and perform with ankle monitors strapped around her ankles in front of all those people?! I mean, doesn’t she have any shame performing in front of hundreds or thousands of people wearing ankle monitors?! Doesn’t she have any shame at all from what she did?! Did she at least say ‘sorry’ for what she did to all those victims and their families?! I mean did she ever say ‘sorry’?! I wouldn’t go to that fundraising concert. I would like to see it, but as long as Diane D is gonna perform in it, I’m not stepping foot in there!”
“Me neither,” the second man says.
“What?” the second woman says. “Y’all wouldn’t see the fundraising concert if Diane D is in it?”
“Hell no!” the first man shouts. “I’m still traumatized and afraid from just hearing what she did to all those authority figures last year! I’m still traumatized just knowing about it! What if she goes off and gets out-of-control again while she’s up there on that stage! I don’t want to be her next victim!”
“Me neither!” the second man shouts. “I’d rather be on the safe side and stay away from that concert, just in case Diane D DOES go off and gets out-of-control again!”
“But wouldn’t it be security there at the fundraising concert?” the second woman asks. “Wouldn’t security be around the stage just in case Diane D’s other personality DOES come out to the surface and goes on the attack?”
“Security?” the first man shouts.
“Yeah!”
“What’s that gonna do?! I mean if those police officers with guns and those swat team members with shotguns couldn’t save their own lives from Diane D or her ‘other’
personality’s wrath, you think OTHER police officers with guns, OTHER swat team members with shotguns and security at the stage could save their own lives and other people’s lives from Diane D or her ‘other’ personality’s wrath? Her ‘other’ personality took down five authority figures who had guns and shotguns and her ‘other’ personality took down a priest right along with them! You think OTHER police officers with guns and OTHER swat team members with shotguns could challenge Diane D’s ‘other’
personality?! Would they even challenge her ‘other’ personality?! Her ‘other’
personality is just too powerful! They would probably all run away like everybody else!
I’m not going to that fundraising concert! The only way I would go to that concert, is if Diane D is not in the show and is locked back up in the mental institution! Her family shouldn’t even allow her to be in the show! They should just ban her from performing in it!”
“Ban her from performing in it?” the first woman asks.
“Yeah!”
“No, that would be a bad move!”
“A bad move? How come?”
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“Because the last time Diane D’s family banned her from performing in one of their shows, I heard she went crazy! She blamed that little boy Marcus for having her banned then she tried to go after him for it!”
“I heard!” the second man shouts. “I heard her family tried to hold her back, but didn’t succeed because she overpowered them by literally dragging them all at once right down the hallway with her trying to get to that little boy! The organization staff members who witnessed all of that said it wasn’t a pretty sight!”
“See what I mean?!” the first man shouts. “When that ‘other’ personality of Diane D’s or that beast personality kicks in and gets into Diane D, she gets this superhuman strength and is able to overpower everybody else! I’m telling you, Diane D’s other personality is a dangerous entity! It killed five authority figures using her physical body and it killed a priest and Diane D doesn’t even know it! To this day, I hear she still doesn’t believe she killed anybody!”
“Because it was her OTHER PERSONALITY who did all that killing?!” the first woman shouts.
“Different personality, same body as far as I’m concerned! It’s the same body! We all just need to stay away from that crazy dangerous woman!”
The following day, a male hospital staff member is standing in the lobby of the mental institution with Sister Rose and two other nuns Sister Ellen, a white female around her mid 40’s and Sister Erica, a slim black nun around her mid 30’s. The hospital staff member turns his head and sees Barry walking in the lobby towards them and shouts, “Hey Mr. Barry!”
“Hey!” Barry says as he approaches the male staff member. He looks at Sister Rose and says, “Hi Sister Rose.”
“Hello there Mr. Barry,” Sister Rose says.
Barry then looks at Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says, “Hi Ladies. So, are you all ready to see Diane?”
“I guess so,” Sister Rose says.
“You guess so? What do you mean ‘you guess so’ Sister Rose? You’re not sure now?”
“Well, are you sure Miss Margarita and Diane D’s mom are going to be in the room with Diane D while we’re having a sit down talk with her?”
“Yes I’m sure. Why? Are you having second thoughts about the sit down talk with Diane?”
“At first we were.”
“Oh really?”
“Yes, but us nuns decided to try and stick it out and try to get through this.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Are you sure you want to have a sit down talk with Diane? Because if you’re not really sure about it, it’s not too late to change your mind. We not only want Diane to be comfortable, we want you ladies to be comfortable as well.”
“Oh thanks Mr. Barry.”
“You’re welcome. So do you still want to have the sit down talk with Diane?”
“I guess so, as long as someone in her family will be in the room with her.”
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“Don’t worry, there’s gonna be. If mom says that she and Mary are going to be in the room with Diane while you’re having a sit down talk with her, she meant it.”
“Okay.”
“Come right this way.”
“Okay.”
Barry turns to the staff and says, “Thanks.”
“Okay Mr. Barry,” the staff member says. Barry turns and walks towards another hallway as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica turn and nervously follow him.
Barry opens the door to a meeting room. He walks into the meeting room as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously follow in behind him. Barry turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and tells them, “Just have a seat right there on this side,” as he points to a small row of seats on the left. “Diane, Mary and Mom will sit on this side,” as he points to another small row of seats on the opposite side of the room.
“Okay,” Sister Rose says.
“Now you ladies make yourselves comfortable. I’ll go get Mom, Mary and Diane.”
Barry turns to the door. He walks out the door and leaves the room as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously stare at him. The door then closes behind Barry.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously stare at the door. Sister Ellen nervously turns to Sister Rose and Sister Erica and whispers, “Oh my God, he’s going to get Diane D now! Do we still have time to change our minds? I’m having second thoughts about this!”
“You are?” Sister Rose asks.
“Well yeah! I’m not too sure if I want to be in the same room with Diane D, knowing that she killed six people last year!”
“I’m not too sure if I want to be in the same room with her either!” Sister Erica whispers. “Maybe we should leave!”
“You want to leave?!” Sister Rose asks.
“Yeah, because I’m having second thoughts about this too! I mean what were we thinking trying to have a sit down talk with this killer?!”
“That’s true!” Sister Ellen says, “Maybe we can try to sneak out the back door before Miss Margarita, Diane D and her mom get here.”
“Yeah let’s go! Come on Sister Rose!” Suddenly the front door opens. Sister Erica, Sister Ellen and Sister Rose nervously gasp and look towards the front door. They suddenly see Barry stepping back into the room.
“Heeere they are,” Barry says as he opens the front door wider. Mary suddenly walks into the doorway into the room. She turns her head to her left and looks right towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Diane D walks into the doorway behind Mary wearing a cream colored long sleeved body shirt with matching colored pants and a matching colored cap facing backward with her long black hair hanging down her back and shoulders. Diane D turns her head to her left and looks towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Margarita walks into the doorway behind Diane D. Margarita turns her head to her left and looks towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica. “They were already heading right to this room when I saw them,” Barry says. Mary, Diane D and Margarita go to the opposite side of the room where the other group of chairs are. They turn and face Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and 63
Sister Erica then sit down on the chairs with Diane D sitting in the middle between Mary and Margarita. Mary, Diane D and Margarita look at Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously look at Mary, Diane D
and Margarita. Barry says to Sister Rose, “Okay Sister Rose, I’m going to leave right now.” Barry turns to Mary and Margarita and says to them, “Mary, Mom, you got this?”
“Yeah we got it Barry,” Margarita says.
“Okay. Bye Diane. I’ll see you all later.”
“Okay Barry,” Margarita and Mary say. Barry turns and leaves the room as the door closes behind him.
Margarita turns back to Sister Rose. She then says, “Okay Sister Rose this is my daughter Mary,” as she points her hand to Mary, “and this is my granddaughter Diane known to you as Diane D,” as she points her hand to Diane D.
“Hi Mary,” Sister Rose says. “Hi Diane D. And this is Sister Ellen,” Sister Rose says as she points her hand to Sister Ellen.
“Nice to meet you,” Sister Ellen nervously says.
“And this is Sister Erica,” Sister Rose says as she points her hand to Sister Erica.
“Nice to meet you,” Sister Erica nervously says.
“Nice to meet you too,” Margarita says. “So now that you nuns are meeting Diane, what do you want to say to her?”
“Wow” Sister Rose nervously says. “What I want to say is, how are you Diane D?”
“I’m doing okay,” Diane D says.
“You are? That’s good. We know that you are a great performer and that you do your performances very well while you’re performing on stage. I understand that you’re very skilled in meditation, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Where did you get that talent from?”
“I learned it when my family’s organization traveled to Asia.”
“You learned meditation when your family traveled to Asia?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good! Can I ask which Asian country did you learn your meditation skills and your martial arts skills from?”
“All over Asia.”
“All over Asia?”
“Yeah. I learned some of my meditation skills when my family traveled to Tibet.”
“Oh you learned some of your meditation skills when your family’s organization traveled to Tibet?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good!”
“Hi Diane D,” Sister Ellen says. “I understand that you’re very skilled in the martial arts too, right?”
“Yeah,” Diane D says.
“Where did you get that talent from?”
“I learned it in Asia too.”
“You did?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good! Can I ask which Asian country did you learn your martial arts skills 64
from?”
“I learned it from all over Asia too.”
“You did?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow! It seems like the martial arts taught you good fighting skills! That’s good!”
“Um Diane D,” Sister Erica says, “we know that you have been locked up here inside this mental institution back and forth. We understand what you and your family have been going through with what happened last year with the authority figures. I just want to know, you still don’t remember anything that happened that day with the authority figures?”
“No I still don’t remember what happened after I woke up from being hypnotized,”
Diane D says.
“You still don’t remember?”
“No. Doctor Stone and my family are trying their best to get me to remember what happened that day. I try very hard to remember what happened that day, but I still don’t remember what happened.”
“Wow, we understand Diane D, that’s why us nuns would like to know is there anything we can do for you.”
“Yeah is there anything you need us to do for you?” Sister Rose says.
“No,” Diane D says. “I can’t think of anything right now.”
“You can’t?”
“No.”
“Okay no problem. Well we are gonna get ready to leave now. And remember Diane D, if there is anything you need us nuns to do for you, just tell your mom and your grandma for us and we’ll try our best to get it done.”
“Thank you.”
Margarita turns to Diane D and says, “You ready baby?”
“Yeah I’m ready Grandma.”
“Okay.” Margarita, Diane D and Mary stand up from the chairs. Margarita turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says, “Okay Sisters, we’re going to take Diane back now.”
“Okay Miss Margarita,” Sister Rose says. “Thanks for letting us try to help her. Bye Diane D.” Diane D gives Sister Rose a luke warm wave as she, Margarita and Mary turn towards the front door and head towards it.
Margarita turns her head towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says, “I’ll send Barry back in here, then he’ll lead you out the building.”
“Okay Miss Margarita, thanks again.”
Margarita turns back forward and walks out the front door as Diane D goes out the front door behind her and Mary goes out the front door behind Diane D. The door closes behind Mary.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica stare at the front door. They then turn and nervously look at each other.
Several minutes later, Barry is walking back in the lobby of the mental institution as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica follow him. He leads them to the front door of the lobby.
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Barry, Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica reach the front door. Barry opens the front door. He turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says to them,
“Thanks for coming.”
“Okay Mr. Barry,” Sister Rose says. “Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica walk out the front door.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica step out of the building as the front door closes behind them. They then turn around and nervously look at the front door. They then turn and nervously look at each other. “Wow,” Sister Ellen whispers. “That was close! That ‘other’ personality didn’t come into Diane D and try to attack us!”
“Well not with her mom and her grandma sitting right there!” Sister Erica whispers, “that’s why we were able to make it out of there alive!”
“Yeah that’s true!”
“Come on,” Sister Rose says, “let’s go.” Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica turn their heads and take one last look at the front door. They then turn forward and leave the area.
The following week, Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry and Dr. Stone are surrounding Diane D who is sitting in a chair sadly looking at photos of the police officers, swat team members and the priest who were killed by her ‘other’ personality last year. “You don’t remember any of these people Diane?” Dr. Stone asks.
“No I don’t,” Diane D says. “How am I supposed to remember them if I don’t even remember what happened? All I know, is that these are the people you all said got killed outside the hypnosis room when they tried to enter inside there with guns and shotguns!”
“Yes they are the people Diane,” Margarita says. “And you still don’t remember what happened inside the hypnosis room?”
“No Grandma. Sorry, I still don’t remember what happened in there!”
“Not at all?”
“No, not at all. I still don’t understand, why the priest was there.”
“You don’t understand why the priest was there?”
“No I don’t. What did he had to do with what happened inside the hypnosis room?
Why was he even there in the first place?”
“We wanted to make sure nothing went wrong inside the hypnosis room Diane,” Dr.
Stone says.
“You wanted to make sure nothing went wrong inside the hypnosis room?”
“That’s right.”
“And you needed a priest to stop it? What makes you think that a priest was gonna be able to stop what was going to happen inside the hypnosis room Dr. Stone? Did having a priest inside that room help?”
“Well obviously it didn’t. We all see where he’s at now. We see where they’re all at now.”
“Yeah that’s true,” Mary says. “But anyway, do you still want to do the fundraising 66
concert for their families Diane? Do you still want to be part of the show?”
“Of course I want to be part of the show Mom,” Diane D says. “Why shouldn’t I be part of the show? I mean none of us can bring these people back, but the least we can do for their families is put on a fundraising concert and help raise money for them and have me be part of the show.”
“But are you sure you want to be part of the show Diane?” Barry asks. “I mean are you sure you want to put yourself out in front of everyone after what happened last year?”
“Of course I do Dad. Let’s do it.”
“Are you sure Diane?” Tomas asks.
“Of course I’m sure Grandpa. I want to show support for the victims and their family members. At least the people can appreciate that.” Diane D looks back at the photos of the police officers, swat team members and the priest as Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry and Dr. Stone sadly look at her.