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Therapy Isn't So Bad

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Chapter One
What A Dream Job

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Kairi

Years of hard work and specialized training have prepared me for this, she thought with a deep breath.

She gave a last glace around the office. Her office.

Her desk was by the window, personalized with a picture frame of her family and her name plate, Kairi Takahashi written in slanted cursive. A healthy, green ficus stood in the corner giving the office a more homely appearance. She had a neat little rug under the small table that sat between her leather chair and a long couch just for her patients. She even made sure the window let in plenty of morning light, pulling the blinds up and pushing the thin curtains aside. It illuminated the room nicely, she had thought in approval earlier that morning.

And then she swelled with pride knowing all this was hers.

Kairi checked her appearance in the small mirror hanging on the wall, flattening her red hair slightly. It was always flat and straight, who was she trying to kid? She sighed, adjusting the collar of her suit jacket and the cuffs around her wrists, glancing over.

The wall clock read 10:43am.

She felt like she was going to rip her hair out. Her first appointment was at eleven, and she was more than eager to use the skills she learned during her long college career. Therapy was something you wanted to do, calm down before you need to start analyzing your own mind, Kairi thought with an inhale to calm her nerves. How many times had she told herself this throughout the morning...? Two--- three billion times? Oh well.

She strode to her desk, looking at the calendar spread across the dark wood surface. She put her future appointments neatly in each box with each date, and she looked at today. It had "Monday" printed along the top, fallowed by the month and day in smaller, italic characters. In the box she neatly wrote the name of her clients as well as the time, color coded and perfectly organized.

How will you help other people's minds if yours is not even organized?

Kairi slumped into the leather swivel chair, opening her drawers and rifling through them. She still had fourteen minutes to spend, might as well get a head start, right?

She took out the manila folder marked with her 11:00am client's name before closing the drawer with a slam. Opening it, she read the information she had.

Bad case of paranoia, nightmares, and thinking people are ready to kill him every few seconds...wow. Just...wow.

Kairi almost thought, what a freaking nut job, before she realized she was supposed to be professional and she was supposed to be the one to help these matters. Besides, that would be mean to say that. And Kairi was not a mean person.

Still, she knows how to handle paranoia well. She was good at helping it, she knew enough many things that can help solve the paranoid feeling the lurks within even the most traumatized person. It was the reason she spent so many years studying Mental Counseling, was it not?

She sighed, relaxing, and checking the clock. 10:55am.

She looked around her office once more, the silence beginning to make her anxious, but in the most excited way. When her phone rang, she nearly jumped out of her swivel chair.

"Hello, Kairi Takahashi speaking," She said with a smile and an inward sigh.

"Good morning Miss Kairi," She recognized the voice of the secretary. "Your eleven o'clock is here, are you ready for him?"

Kairi beamed. Four minutes early! "Yes, send him up right away! Thank you, Aerith."

This was it, she thought excitedly. The first session of her dream job, and what a dream job it was.

She hung up and gathered the notepad and the client's folder she had on the corner of her desk. She gave a final look in the mirror.

My goodness, I am probably the one that belongs on the couch with my behavior, she thought but was interrupted with a knock on the door.

She opened it to see the secretary, Aerith, smiling warmly in her pink sweater and black skirt. She had her hands on a man's shoulders.

"Your eleven o'clock client, Miss Takahashi," Aerith nodded before walking away.

Kairi smiled back, stepping aside for her client to enter, swelling with excitement. She closed the door, waving to the couch and motioning for the man to sit down.

Kairi took her own seat in her chair on the other side of the table when he sat down. She crossed one leg over the other, putting her information and notepad on her lap.

"Good morning, I am Doctor Takahashi," She said warmly. "May I offer you anything to drink before our session, Mr. Hikari?"

The man slowly shook his head. "No thanks, Doctor...and you can call me Sora."

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R&R Please! =)

Client number one: Sora

Note: I know it is probably a little cliché having Aerith being the secretary, but I couldn't think of anyone else. She is the only one in the game sane enough to not have any problems I can think of. (And yes, I know her real name is Aeris, but I am going by the King Hearts way of spelling it. X3)

Anyways. Let the craziness begin…