Half an hour after hanging up on Andrew, Katie-Lou arrived at Kanamaluka Vineyard.
Andrew waiting in the door way holding a bucket, looked like he'd seen a ghost.
"Where is it?" She said grabbing the bucket.
Following Andrew through to the living room area, to where the spider had set up camp.
"Hey little dude," she said as she gently put the bucket over the area where the spider was, a second later, she gently tapped the bucket and the spider fell into the bucket, slowly she pulled the bucket away and looked down on the scared spider as she walked outside.
Moments later she returned with an empty bucket to Andrew sitting on the floor paler than when she had arrived.
"It sucks, doesn't it" she said placing the bucket on the kitchen bench.
"What? Not being able to deal with a spider?" He asked looking up.
"No, I mean the anxiety"
"What?... How?... How do you know?" He said looking confused.
"How did I know about your anxiety?" she responded, opening up a cupboard looking for a wine glass.
"I know, because, you look just like me, it sucks, being in an everyday situation, yet it makes you hyperventilate" she said opening a second cupboard "OK, where are your wine glasses?" she said distracting Andrew from his current anxiety attack.
"What? Wine glasses, I don't have any" he responded, the colour slowing coming back to his face.
"What? You live on a vineyard and you don't have any wine glasses?" she asked in disbelief.
"No, I haven't really been that organised yet."
"Coffee mug?"
"No, I have bottled water in the fridge!" he responded.
"Bottled water?" she said stopping mid step to the fridge.
" Yeah, I heard the tap water here isn't very good so I've been using bottled water" he said fully recovered from the attack.
"OK, he need to get you organised" she said grabbing around a couple of bottles of water out of the fridge and looking around the empty house "Do you have a budget for furnishing?"
"Huh? Oh that's not an issue, it's just I haven't got around to it... how did you do that?" he asked flipping the conversation back to the spider.
"Oh that" she paused for a moment while she handed him a bottle of water, "to tell you the truth, I hate spiders"
"But, you were so calm" he said reliving what he'd just seen.
"Oh that," she said, pausing again "Are you religious? I know it sounds off topic, but I promise it's not"
"I grew up Catholic, so I guess yes"
"I'm not really, I mean, I believe there's something out there, but do I believe in the rest of it all, not really. But what I do believe in is Yin and Yang which is all about opposites, male and female, hot and cold, hate and love. So when someone is panicked in a situation that warrants it, like the spider, I am as cool as a cucumber, when no one is panicked, I panic"
"So are you saying, if I wasn't panicked about the spider, you would have?" he asked looking up at her.
"I know it sounds weird, but yes... I am usually jumping around the room, freaking out, but unfortunately that doesn't solve the situation."
He sat starring at her for a moment before saying "I just can't believe you have anxiety".
"Why?" She asked.
"Because, you always look so happy, you're always smiling and you handled that situation so calmly"
"Andrew, sometimes the happiest people are the most depressed" she paused before continuing "after many years of living with it, I have become very good at hiding it"
"ha" he gave a small laugh as if to say I know that feeling.
"Now! Let's start making a list, we're going to get you organised!"
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