Finally done! Sorry for taking so long but it's been pretty much in school right now. ^^'
Hope you enjoy it...I didn't but I hope you will! :D
When he enters the room he can smell the incenses that's all over it. It doesn't look as any office he has ever seen before. The only light source is the candles that's spread out around the room. He looks around at the walls, it's a lot of Chinese symbols drawn at them, at least he thinks it's Chinese.
"Can I help you, boy?" A meditating yellow monkey with four dots on his forehead asks him with closed eyes. Lifty frowns when he eyes the monkey. He scratches the back of his head and realizes that he has to answer.
"The principal told me to get over here and talk with you. But don't bother, I'll be out of here in about a minute."
"I see...take a seat, young one." The monkey opens his eyes and smiles at him.
Lifty looks around the room, searching for a chair. He gives the monkey a questioning look when he can't find any.
The primate chuckles a little and gestures Lifty to sit in front of him on the carpet covering the floor.
With a thoughtful expression on his face the raccoon sits down with his legs crossed. The monkey takes a cup of tea and drinks it.
"Do you want some green tea?"
"No." Lifty answers shortly.
The monkey nods and puts down his cup. He then clears his throat and looks friendly at Lifty.
"Now then, what bothers you, my friend?"
Lifty bites his lips while the monkey looks patiently at him.
"Uh, I hit a kid in class today..." Lifty mumbles low.
"Oh yes, the principal did send me a memo about a boy who often gets into trouble..." says the monkey with a calm voice.
Lifty looks down, trying to hide that he's blushing.
"Maybe I should get to know you better first? Let's take a look at your personal file, if it's okay with you of course." He peers at the raccoon.
"It's okay." Lifty says.
The monkey nods and takes a folder and opens it.
"Okay then...It says here that you often ends up at the principal's office and you've got a...criminal record?" He stops and looks at the raccoon for a long time. Lifty looks back without any clue of what the monkey is thinking about. The monkey begins to read again.
"You're good at drawing?"
Lifty shakes his head to answer. The monkey raises an eyebrow in disbelief.
"Well, the doodles on this math test is telling me the opposite."
"It also tells you that I suck at math..."
The monkey chuckles heartwarming.
"Let's proceed. Could you tell me why you hit this other student?"
Lifty shakes his head. He feels like a grumpy three year old when he does that.
"Why not?"
"Why would I?" Lifty talks back.
"It could make you feel a lot better for example. But you should only tell me if it makes you feel comfortable."
'What did I tell you?'
Lifty wish he could slap himself right now.
"I won't tell anyone else, son."
Lifty groans a little and drops his ears.
"Professional secrecy or what..?" The raccoon crosses his arms.
"Well that and ethics."
"I...I didn't like the things he said..." Lifty says very low.
For some reason, Lifty likes this guy. He's not like any other psychologists he has ever met before. It's something about his charisma, he simply isn't unlikeable and that irritates Lifty.
"Okay, and why is that?" The monkey asks calm as always.
"Because...I like Nutty." He immediately regrets the last part. Why did he say that?
He stares at the monkey but he is just sitting there.
"Who is Nutty?" The monkey asks after a long time of silence.
Lifty don't know if he should go on. It's a tense feeling inside of him that makes him unsure about what to do. But he decides to give it a try, it's not like this guy will go to the school's newspaper and tell, right?
"A guy in my parallel class. But no one can know about it! Even if the most people does, I guess..." He avoids to look directly at the monkey.
"That's nothing to be ashamed of my friend. It's part of the nature of boys and girls to get to know their sexualities in your age and some of them goes for the same way as the two of you have done."
"It's not that I think it's anything wrong with it but the people I'm around doesn't take this kind of things lightly. They would kill us..."
The monkey puts a comforting hand on Lifty's shoulder. It's actually very calming, like everything is going to be alright.
"Well, It's up to you if you want to come out but it sure is a problem if you feel frightened."
Lifty's throat feels dry, he need some water or something to make the unpleasant feeling go away.
"Have you told anybody else that you're feeling scared of what they might do to you?"
"Only Nutty and my brother." Lifty shrugs.
"I see, well I'll do my best to work this out." He smiles at Lifty.
Before they can proceed a phone at the working desk ringings and the monkey has to answers it.
"Hello?...Oh, yeah?...Yes I remember...Right now?...Okay, okay...let me finish this first?...Okay, thank you."
He puts the phone away and peers at Lifty for a while before proceeding.
"Oh well, I think we should meet tomorrow so we can treat that temperament of yours. How about 2 o'clock?"
"Uh, I guess so..." Lifty feels a little disappointed that the meting was so short.
The principal didn't joke when she said that he's a busy man.
Lifty closes the door behind him and turns around to take a look at the empty hallway. It looks pretty boring with vacant walls and gray lockers of steel. If Lifty got to decide he'd make it more colorful. He decides to get something to drink and goes to the soda machine. While there he searches through his pockets to see if he's got some money but can't find any. He then remembers that he left his change in his jacket at home. Frustrated, he hits the window of the soda machine with his own head.
"Ya to borrow some change, Pear?" A familiar voice with a cute dialect asks him. Lifty looks at the candy covered squirrel who's standing next to him with some biology books in his arms.
So, what 'ya think? R&R please! ^^