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They now sat in Dr. Kim's office. She was nervous. Her husband laid his hand gently onto her leg to calm her down, but it didn't help. After what felt hours Dr. Kim entered the room.
"Mrs. and Mr. Cohen, it's always a pleasure to meet you." She greeted them. Of course it was a pleasure, they paid an enormous amount of money and thus financed her income.
"Dr. Kim." Her husband stood up and both shook hands. She remained sitting. There was no need for being polite. This time Dr. Kim had made a big mistake and she wasn't going to let her through with this.
"So, what can I do for you?" Dr. Kim asked.
"Is it true that Oliver Trask entered your school again?" Her husband asked. It was better if he did the talk. He was the lawyer and used to this kind of situation. She probably would strangle her verbally.
"Yes, that's right. Why do you ask?" Hypocrisy. She knew why they were here.
"My wife and I are thinking of whether it's a good idea letting a kid with his background enter a school like Harbor School." Sandy said. How was he able to retain his composure in such a situation? She was in rage and she had trouble to keep it under the surface.
"Of course I have to acknowledge that Mr. Trask has had some problems lately, but he's working on it, successfully as I was affirmed." Successfully? They had seen how successful he had worked on his problems the last time. She wasn't ready to go over this bridge.
"And now he's back, just like that, without any conditions?" She intervened now, venting her anger.
"Mr. Trask is a very gifted young man, who needs to be assisted." This was enough reason to let this danger with two legs endangering her son? Sometimes she wondered which preconditions one needed to enter this school. Rich and spoiled?
"And what if he is going to suffer from a relapse? He easily could endanger the whole school." Her husband now stated.
"There are no signs that this might happen in the near future." Dr. Kim said. She was looking at this strict woman. And now she realized what was making her that angry. It wasn't the fact that Oliver Trask was back again. It was something else.
"May I ask why Mr. Trask is getting a special treatment?" She asked. She wasn't used to beat around the bush. She always got what she wanted through the direct way.
"I guess I don't understand your question." Dr. Kim answered, coldly smiling at her.
"I assume that you still remember the fight we've fought for Ryan being allowed to enter this school?" She asked. She still felt the fury she had felt back then. It had been unfair that such an intelligent boy like Ryan shouldn't have been allowed to enter the school, only because his parents didn't belong to the rich members of this Newport Society. Until then she never had thought that the Newport Society was interstratified with prejudices like that. But they only had heard the word 'Chino' and they thought to know what kind of boy Ryan was. Okay, his start in Newport had been a little bit troubled, but it hadn't been more than a chain reaction of unfortunate events.
"Of course I do. But you have to see that this had been a complete different case from Mr. Trask's one."
"Oh, and in which way different?" Her husband asked. The lawyer in her husband wanted every single information and then he pinned down his victim and that exactly what they were going to do with Dr. Kim.
"Ryan is obviously violent and according to his background this is nothing to wonder about." Nothing to wonder about? Had she forgotten about the boy's grades and the progress he had made? Now she saw red. Deep and dark red.
"His background?" She asked. "His background? This means that someone who grew up in a surrounding of violence, alcoholism and negligence is given less chances, as someone who grew up in mummy's and daddy's penthouse?" Yes, her husban's idealism had rubbed off on her and she was proud of it.
"Mrs. Cohen I think I don't have to explain to you that even children of parents that are better off, can suffer from problems like negligence and thus they can develop problems like Mr. Trask." She spoke in calm and quite, but determining voice and this was even more frustrating for her.
"I really can good imagine that Mr. Trask's parents don't pay enough attention to their son, but I can't imagine that he ever was abused by his parents, had to work for his parents alcoholism or was abandoned from them." Her husband looked questioning at her. Yes, she knew a bit more like he did, but this only was because of her being a female. Ryan didn't talk a lot of his past, but all those single times he had done so, still swirled through her mind. She had listened carefully to it and found out what had been going on in Chino, before he had met her husband. And yes, she was reading in his behaviour. In somehow she had developed a maternal instinct for him as well. He had become... a... son, in somehow.
"I can't give a statement to this. The only thing I know about it is that Mr. Trask really works on his problem, while Ryan still is retaining violence."
"What do you mean with 'still is'?" Her husband asked. Yes, what did she mean with that?
"Mr. Trask had asked me, whether Ryan still is a student at this school, because after Ryan had battered him he was afraid that this might happen again."
"C'mon, he has had a split lip. I wouldn't consider this as been battered." Her husband now answered.
"I'm not talking about the school fight." Dr. Kim said. She was shocked. How did she know about it? She wasn't supposed to know this or? Ryan was no student here anymore. She wasn't allowed to know that. And… Why in hell's name did she know that and they got to know it quite late?
"The statement of affairs is not evidenced. No one can tell how everything really befell and if it befell anyway." Her husband now turned into his whole lawyer character. She was glad that he was here. He knew how to handle such a situation. He knew how to talk to people like Dr. Kim.
"No matter what has happened or not, I'm committed to my decision regarding Mr. Trask. Even though after all what had happened, I really can imagine well that it happened the way Mr. Trask had described the incident to me. "
"If this is your last word." She said, got up and went to the door. She was reluctant to spend only seconds more in this room, together with this...bitch. Her husband followed her. She stormed through the hallway, heading to her son's class room. When she had reached it, she opened the door.
"Seth, we're going home." Her son looked confused at her. "Now." She said determining. She never was going to let her son go to the same school like a lunatic. He was her treasure and she had to save him. She hadn't been able to save Ryan, but she was able to save Seth and that was, what she was doing right now. Saving Seth. She couldn't bear, losing another son – her last son- likewise.
