Chapter 17, "Crash".
(Sorry. Not really.)
This one is a doozy folks. In this chapter, we go more and more deep with Ellen and her insane daddy issues and how she became more separated from his father than ever before. This chapter marks another point where what little remained of Ellen's sanity went just down the toilet, and almost caused a stupid accident because of it.
First in the chapter, we have adult Ellen, this time being 25 years old. Trying to reunite the courage to finally confront the devil spawn herself, Linda. And she admits in this part that she did not have to had a good relationship with her.
But of course, she couldn't get all in with his distaste with Linda, only getting the words in her mouth and not saying anything else. Then she remembers the occasion of someone coming to visit her in Los Angeles, she already started having a crisis episode, thinking that it was Linda and to torment her.
But to her surprise, the one that has come to visit her was her own dad. And she quickly organized everything to make the little reunion feel as comfy as possible.
She mentions the time before her father announced that he was coming to visit her. Apparently he wanted to talk about some trips during her childhood. Possibly something to do with Linda and their animosity and how they grew a bitter relationship to one another, Ellen assumed that her father finally saw his flaws and possibly talking a way to apologize to her of how he really didn't stepped in when Linda confronted her every time.
After a day or two of her father visiting her home. They had a chance to talk at the parking lot of a supermarket. The father couldn't have chosen a worse time to talk about this.
So, did the father apologized to her for acting like he was feeding a rivalry between her and Linda? Of course not. He basically told her that even though he felt very bad for divorcing her mother and leaving her when she was little, he was ultimately glad that it happened, because if he didn't do it. He would've never met someone as Linda, which makes him very happy and beloved.
Of course, this confession was a breaking point for Ellen. She did not expected this and she didn't want to hear any of this, a silent mental breakdown would follow through, a horrible buckbreaking experience would follow her for the rest of the night.
And it appears at that moment she had another flashback, we go to a moment when she was having a photoshoot, she was modeling with a famous photographer in her words... and it wasn't going so well. She wore a dress, but it appears that this time she was at a low energy to bitch about it.
Apparently she was shutdown to show any kind of emotions of words, she was full of stress and anxiety. And that was enough to make the photographer mad at her for being so quiet, to the point that she actually kicked the chair she was in and caused her to have a panic attack.
Then, we go back to Ellen and her father, Ellen still trying to process what was happening and couldn't do it, it was all so sudden, she couldn't handle it anymore and then she dumped her father on the streets, with the excuse that she needed to see her therapist. And it was a bad idea that she was driving. You can probably see where this is going.
We then see how she was having a fullblown panic attack, that she couldn't even be focused on the road. Which is probably the worst thing someone should be doing when having a panic attack.
And after going through her coffee to relax herself a little, it finally happened. She slightly bumped her car with another one, yeah, you would thought by the title that it could be a dramatic crash with her barely surviving, but no, she only bumped a car and destroy one of the lights at best. This didn't do any favors to her.
After the horrible experience, she had to call her therapist, she needed to hear the voice of someone else. Fortunately, her therapist managed to calm her down. She then ended in the therapist couch.
The therapist tried to tell her if she could bring her father to the next session, Ellen obviously and directly denied any involvement from the father. Also, what the fuck is that analogy at the end?
We end the chapter with Ellen having a reflection on how that situation basically traumatized her and shut down most of her feelings and her desires to speak up about her problems, her feeling were "locked". And feeling that she would never get an explanation for anything that happened in her life.