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Bright red letters on Jimmy's alarm clock slowly showed time creeping by as he lie in bed. It was wednesday morning in early August, the first day of school. School had already started earlier at 7:00. Being late on the first day is not a good way to start but he was preoccupied with other things. More importantly a viscious screaming match with his father. He's grown to accept them, it was a regular occurence in this house; but, that's not to say it didn't hurt him on the inside. I won't go into detail on what was exchanged verbally, but just know it wasn't friendly and ended in Jimmy storming out of his house angrily, jogging in quite a hurry to get to school.

He got there at 7:30, he didn't live too far from the school, only about a mile and a half (he hadn't stopped jogging once except to pick up a mountain dew from a QT next to the school). He walked slowly through the empty halls of the school as he attempted to locate his homeroom, room 128 with Mr. Stevenson. He liked Mr. Stevenson, having had his classes numerous times before, he was one of the only teachers he liked at all to be honest. He stopped when he located the door and hesitated with his hand on the door handle. He let out a sigh. He didn't want to be on his bad side this early in the year and contemplated skipping homeroom all together, but he needed to get his schedule. Jimmy slowly opened the door and walked into the room.

"Sorry I'm late Mr. Stevenson," he spoke quietly, "I-"

"Take a seat Jimmy," the teacher interrupted. The teacher knew about the problems at Jimmy's house and could figure out that was the cause of him being late. Jimmy walked slowly to the back of the room and sat down in an empty desk. He didn't have any backpack or binder or anything with him, not that it's necessary on the first day or anything. The teacher brought Jimmy his schedule and walked back to the front of the room, continuing on about the school and the school's activities. Jimmy ignored all of this and read his schedule quietly.