Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas

Author:Rob Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Though an electric fan rotated methodically and a lone window was open as far as the crank-controlled school sort allow, the stench left no doubt that someone had puked in DeMouy’s office. The buzz of the fluorescent lighting punctuated the fact that DeMouy wasn’t, for the first time since I had been sent to him, jamming to the sounds of Mother Nature. The man himself looked disconsolate. Slouched in his chair, DeMouy rested his cheek against the back of his overlapping hands, which in turn covered a disorganized pile of memos and forms on the desk. The counselor had lost his trademark crispness. The routine Japanese precision of his hair part had given way to a three-day-hike-in-a-stocking cap matting. A line of blood was beading up across the visible side of his neck. His creased tie hung from his desk lamp, and black coffee replaced herbal tea in his Far Side mug.

“Rough day?” I asked.

I could see DeMouy focusing on me. I decided I should try to help.

“DeMouy,” I queried, “did you have a happy childhood? Do you remember not getting something you always wanted for Christmas and really hating your parents because of it? Was going into education a way to get even with them?”

“I sent for you yesterday,” he answered coldly.

I thought about returning when he was in a better mood. Whatever he needed me for could wait. I finished scanning the office: trash basket on its side, fern branches broken, mop bucket filled with detergent-blue water.

“Did I miss a fight?”

DeMouy nodded.

“And somebody puked?”

He nodded again. He raised his torso, and I saw that his button-down featured a wet spot roughly the size and shape of Connecticut. He began halfheartedly sorting through the papers on his desk.

“You’ve never had to break up a fight before, have you?”

DeMouy found the college info he had been searching for and handed it across his desk to me.

“I’m thirty today,” he said.

“Kids,” I said, shaking my head.

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