Partial days of school annoyed the crap out of Craig. If there was going to be school than they should just go to a full day and actually get something accomplished, all half days did was make people think about the fact that school was getting out early and therefore classes were pointless. After the bell rang Craig made a point of going to each of his teachers to get any assignments they wanted done in the next month. Most of the time teachers only gave out what they wanted to give out, when they wanted to give it out, but Craig had made a reputation at this school so the teachers generally had a packet ready for him at the start of every month.
This was how he got a work out during the school year, lugging his backpack around all the time, but it got in the way when he tried to catch up with people after school. Today was worse than normal because of the partial day. While he had been getting his assignments all of his friends had been running out the front doors in a stupid hope for it to still be summer. By the time he got out the doors Georgie was almost to the parking lot already, which didn't surprise him when he saw Ellie parked out front of the school, and her head probably hurt still so she wanted to get home. "I'll call her when I get home," Craig thought, not paying attention to where he was walking. "That should give her enough time to get home and put all her stuff down. She'll probably want to go over audition stuff tonight..." Due to his lack of attention he almost ran into Aaron.
"That was close," Craig said, trying not to laugh. "Probably wouldn't do you a whole lot of good to fall down the stairs after beating up the building earlier." Slugging Aaron, very lightly, in the shoulder Craig kept walking out to the parking lot.