Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, governed by a sole rule: exactly six sentences in length must stories be.

Previously in our story…

Prompt word:

MARKET

The expression on my face, as I surveyed the Hobbomock High School campus, was probably a bit more ‘fuck you-y’ than I realized, but in my defense, given how all William-Wallace the inside of my head was, not such a surprise.

“My god, Ian, talk about hormone-skewed, mark-to-market self-assessment of the adolescent male;” her smile ‘EQ’d her words into something that encouraged me to reply,

“If only someone had simply pointed that out to me then, the needless self-doubt I could’ve avoided.”

My elbows, denting the mid-June grass of the sloping lawn, held me in place, physically if not emotionally; the campus was vacant, Diane was patient and I waited hoping to hear the echos of a past that might now be edited into something more than self-isolation in an anechoic stage of social development.

Diane sat cross-legged next to me and, for rather for the umpteenth time, I marveled at the natural grace of her gender; she was wearing a skirt of a simple design, shoes with heels that were somewhere between ‘Race-you-to-the-car’ and Race-you-to-the-bedroom’, a Navy blue blazer over a blouse that strongly suggested attention best be focused somewhere northward, how she managed to get into her current position without looking awkward or brazen, totally beyond me.

I was equally sure that no matter how much I remained attentive, when the time came to leave, she would be wherever she wanted to be, and I would be ….well, where she wanted me to be.

“So this,” Diane scanned the empty high school campus, a smile neutral, a slightly-raised eyebrow as asterix, “would be the drawing board of, in Freud’s five stages of psychosexual development, the genital phase; I’d love to believe he was trying to be ironic, but you know, different times, different mindsets,”