Chapter 8.

"One day, I wanna fight a gorilla!" Damon proudly announced to Dr. Bambillo as they sat in his office carrying on a conversation.

The Dr. blinked at the large dark skinned boy several times before he spoke up,

"A Gorilla?" He questioned him to make certain he had indeed heard correctly,

"Yep!" Came Damon's response.

"Damon, maybe you misunderstood me, what I was asking was if you had any hopes or major life goals that you wanted to succeed at? I'm asking that because of the incident that took place in the gym between you and your wrestling opponent, what if you had have killed him by mistake? Don't you think that would have made any of your life goals unattainable had you ended up being charged with murder?"

Damon sat there staring at the Dr. for a moment clearly pondering the question that had been asked to him,

"Naw not really, If I put a hurtin on anybody who tries something like that then I'd have been okay, besides violence can solve most of life's problems anyway."

Again Dr. Bambillo blinked at the boy, he was completely astounded by his ignorance, did he really think his violent tendencies were okay?

Talking with him so far had been rather frustrating, he was the typical jock, all brawns and no brains and to make matters worse he was unbelievably violent.

The Dr. had received a call from the Gym teacher up at the academy asking him if had room in schedule to meet with one of his student's a.s.a.p! The gym teacher had informed him that usually he didn't bother with stuff like this but if the student he wanted him to speak with didn't tone it down then they may very well end up with a legal case on their hands concerning the wellbeing of some of the other students.

Apparently said kid had literally, Literally tried to rip another students head off their shoulders during a wrestling match. Although he failed to do so, he did however manage to succeed in twisting and breaking their neck! The student would live but was still permanently damaged for life.

That same day during the exact same class he had also gone about trying to rip another student's heart out of their chest! Evidently he had clawed at them so hard that they had started bleeding profusely and even had pieces of flesh scratched away from their body, and now here sat Damon West in his office.

Listening to him Dr. Bambillo found himself wondering why the boy hadn't been sent to him sooner. Every question he asked aside from his name was answered with something concerning violence.

"What's your favorite color?"

"Red The color of blood! I like to make people bleed!" Had been his response,

"What's your favorite food?"

"Anything hard! So if I decide I don't want it I can always throw it at some nerd and leave a mark!"

"What's your favorite movie?"

"St Valentine's Day…."

The Dr. smiled at this response

"…Massacre," the boy added in

"St Valentine's Day Massacre! Full of bloodshed and death!"

Dr. Bambillo's smile quickly dropped from his face.

"Damon, have you ever thought of something to fill you time with other than violence?" The Dr. questioned him.

"No.. Not really" he responded blandly.

This had been going on for close to an hour now and the Dr. was starting to lose hope for helping the boy find a lifestyle or hobby that didn't include violence. He had thought about writing a prescription for some meds for the boy to try but was still deciding as to whether he really should or not. There was always the possibility of meds making a patient worse, and the last thing he was trying to do was make things worse when it came to Damon West.

Searching for something say the Dr. decided to get more insight on his social standing,

"Damon, besides the other jocks do you have anyone you are close to, I mean like a girlfriend or anything?"

Damon seemed to think for a moment before he started to shake his head,

"Yeah, not really a girlfriend, more like a boyfriend actually but yeah I got someone I'm close to that's not a jock."

Hearing this, the Dr. tried not to look surprised mainly because he wasn't, there was nothing to indicate anything about the boy's sexuality but the Dr. was pretty certain that no female in their right mind would date someone with such violent tendencies.

"A boyfriend you say? So you're gay?" The Dr. questioned simply to confirm,

"Well not really… only for him I guess." Was Damon's rather blunt reply, despite his social status as the jocks second in command he didn't seem to be all that uptight or secretive about being with another guy.

"Okay then there is nothing wrong with that," Dr. Bambillo went on, "What about him though, how does he deal with your behavior? Does he encourage it, or discourage it, or is he neutral about it, or does he even know about your violent behavior?"

"Yeah he knows," Damon announced again in a nonchalant tone, "He says I shouldn't try to solve all my problems or any of my problems with my fist."

The Dr. nodded his head in understanding, relieved and thankful that there was someone in his life that potentially could have a positive and major impact on his behavior. "Do you agree with him?" Dr. Bambillo questioned.

"No not really, I feel like a good beat down can handle any problem!"

Dr. Bambillo inwardly sighed and struggled to avoid rolling his eyes in the air. Starting to feel rather defeated for today's session Dr. Bambillo mentally prepared to bring their meeting to a close but also wanted Damon to come back. There was no way in hell anybody with his mindset could be allowed to dwell in public and go unmonitored.

"Alright then Damon, I want you to think about what I've told you today and I also want you to think about what your boyfriend has said to you, I'm not saying take our words and wallow in them day and night, I'm just asking you to consider other options besides being violent okay?"

"Alright" Was Damon's only reply.

"Okay then have a nice day you're free to go." The Dr. dismissed him with a smile

Damon looked surprised, "Really I can leave!?" He questioned clearly surprised,

"Yes of course!" The Dr. informed him.

"Aw man this is cool, I told Norton they wouldn't send me off to the asylum!" The large teen stood up to go but something he had said had caught Dr. Bambillo's attention.

Standing up to make it seem like he had something else to get to as well he decided to question the boy just to make it look like idle chit chat.

"Oh, is Norton your boyfriend?" He asked making certain to seem like he was only curious.

Damon smiled at him as he pulled his Varsity coat on, "Yeah he is, you probably know his dad, he's on the police force! His name is Officer Williams…"

"NORTON WILLIAMS! You mean Officer Williams's son is gay!?" Officer Monson practically shouted after spitting his coffee out.

"Not so loud!" Dr. Bambillo shushed him.

"With the mention of all this deviant behavior I'm starting to think it is just a fad, I wouldn't worry about it though, most children who engage in these sorts of behaviors will eventually grow out of it!" Dr. Crabblesnitch informed the other two while wiping away some of the coffee he had been sprayed with thanks to Officer Monson.

"Maybe, maybe not," Dr. Bambillo remarked,

"But some kids tend to engage in deviant behavior because of how they have been treated by others not necessarily because it's a fad. Sometimes they will venture outside of what society considers the norm because of issues they have had with individuals. In other cases they may act up a lot because of how they have been treated by people close to them throughout their lives…"