How Do I Feel?
- It's been a month since the accident, and Andy's parents decide to send him to a psychologist—he has to work through his anger and guilt, after all, and they certainly don't want to help him through it.
- Andy's not sure what to think. He doesn't trust some shrink to poke around inside his head, but then again, the guy is black (like Andy) and seems legit, so he agrees to give it a shot.
- He tells the doc that he's down in the dumps, but everything is fine; he's not sure why his parents sent him in the first place.
- Okay, okay, the shrink gets it, but he still wants to hear what's going on to make Andy depressed in the first place.
- Andy reports that it's his fault Robbie died. He was drinking and driving, and he shouldn't have been doing that.
- The doc asks if Andy thinks Rob would blame him. Hmm… probably not, since Rob was really low key and laid back. But Andy still blames himself.
- Most of Andy's friends have been pretty cool about it, and he knows he can always talk to Coach Ripley. But he still blames himself.
- Andy admits that there are a lot of things his parents don't know about him—they pretend to know him, but really they don't. He and his parents just don't get each other.
- Plus his mom still calls black people "negro" and won't change even though they are black. This bugs Andy. And his dad is no better. He's an active Republican and always kissing up to white people at his job.
- Then there's Andy's little brother, Monty. He's the only one in his family who is halfway cool, but Andy hates how Monty only liked blonde girls.
- The shrink asks Andy about basketball. Andy says he feels guilty since he's center now, which was Rob's position. Rob was way better than Andy, so he knows he'd never have gotten the position with Rob on the team. This makes him feel like he didn't really earn it.
- At the end of the session, Andy decides the whole thing wasn't so bad; he agrees to see the doc again.