Thread: Therapy of the Mind (Closed for Crystalia)

Charlie felt a small tremor of emotion course through his body when his little sister apologized for being emotional. Hell, they'd all been a bit emotional these past few days, even Kari's older brother who worked feverishly to make sure all the I's were dotted and T's crossed had caught himself frozen and vibrating whenever his mind went down dark paths of what could have happened to his beloved little sister. He wasn't able to respond right away, vocally at least, and could only smile in a warm way to dissuade Kari from thinking her emotions were any sort of burden to him. Thankfully she quickly moved the subject forwards as the entire family had tended to do when their emotions threatened to overwhelm them. She made a tease about crashing his bachelor pad and quickly followed it up with sincere appreciation. By the time she was finished her older brother's warm smile had burst into a much more confident and happier one that meant he could respond with words again finally. I love you Kar-Bear, and wouldn't have it any other way, He tilted his head and decided to tease back, I'll make sure to put a tie on my doorhandle if I'm busy. The inflection he left on the last word made it fairly obvious that he was referring to having sex, but only the smallest of blushes accompanied his teasing and he saw that Kari hardly blushed either. Their frank discussions about the matter in the past left both siblings at ease with the mention, besides Charlie was certainly teasing and he had absolutely no plans to have any women in his bachelor's pad besides his little sister, their mother, and whoever the office sent over to check on Kari. Certainly, no women he planned on sleeping with. Even if the next phase of his life would probably include searching for The One, it was easy to put on the backburner while he helped his little sister recover. Oh hey, good news, I didn't have all the facts quite right about your injury. Auditory stimulation is fine, music, podcasts, audiobooks are all approved by the doctor's, so you won't be bored stiff! As he spoke Charlie dug through one of the bags he'd lugged inside earlier and removed an older style boombox without any sort of touchscreen or digital interface, it was all buttons and even had a CD player. A stack of audiobooks and albums on CD accompanied the boombox. The doctor still wanted you to avoid screens, so I had to go digging in mom dad's attic for this ancient beast, got a bunch of blasts from the past with it too, and believe it or not the radio still works. I thought they'd shut down all the radio stations a long time ago, haha. Once the contraption was set up Charlie flicked on the music at a very low level and sat on the side of Kari's bed, If you want a podcast I'll download it and start it up, but I ordered a Amazon Alexa, should be here tomorrow, once that's all set up you can just talk to it to tell it what you want to listen to. Leaning over to brush Kari's bangs behind her ears he gave her cute nose a little pinch, If I get too loud with any guests you can just turn the music up, I guess. Charlie chuckled at his last little bit of teasing, So, what next, you want to eat first, a massage, a bath, or do you think you need a nap?