The adoption process (4)
The story deepens! :3
Once the inhabatints were setled, things that would happen in a real life society started. Un wanted children, economics, polotics and so forth. most of these things can easly be overlooked, but the children can't. It's not right to be given up by your parrents just because they think you are a mistake, or they don't love you anymore. I talked with Crispin and he said that he woulden't mind if I did it either. I was going to be the firt furson on Mars that was going to adopt a child, since this process is relatively new they didn't have a plan of action on how to give the child to me. They basicly typed and printed a couple pages of things to sign and estimated a price. This last minuet was much simpler than the long drawn out process on earth. So i payed the measly fee of about $60,000 (measly for child adoption at least) and was alowed to pick out wichever child I fancied.
At first I guessed that every child there was about normal, lively and playing with others. But I noticed one childe singled out by the older kids that was being picked on, he didn't look to happy about it seeing as he was crying, and about fourteen, you almost never see a fourteen year old boy crying, they are too "masculine". I almost flashed at light speed to the group and took the kid in the middle away from that, only now to realize that he had bruises al over his scally reptile skin with missing scales in patches all over his body. By this I was outraged and made my final desicion, he was mine now. At this point I realized that I was still holding him fireman stile. I set him down and went to the director and recieved his file, he was a fourteen year old (knew it) boy. Species was a green anole. height was at about five foot two and their was small details too, like diet, he was a vegitarien. Strange for a insectavoreus species but everyone has their prefrences.
When we were about half way to the new (at the time) house the akward silence had gone on long enough. I asked what his favorite color was, all i got was a grunt, i asked what his favorite sport was, another grunt, what clothes he liked, grunt, his favorite school subject, grunt, his favorite actor, now this got a response he started to say something but shyed away from it but i urged him on and got a response, Matt Smith II (Matt Smiths' son who replaced his dad in the hit TV drama Doctor Who). I responded "Really! Me too, so i am guessing you like Doctor Who also?" a slight nod, "good, now i know what room you are getting." Once we got to the house i ushered him to my "fan boy" room and as he looked in his eyes went wide, i could almost see them falling out of his skull. I asked how he liked it and all i got was a hug, a verry strong bone crushing, hug.