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Everyone in After life high, had a reputation, Scott for one was the kid you talked to when you wanted something, from test answers to slightly less legal things he was your guy. Being helpful definitely helped circumvent some of the bullying that was inevitably when you were short, scrawny, and according to some “conveniently locker sized “. Of course being small had its advantages. For example he was currently shimmying though the school vents to get a sneak peak at the answer sheet for their upcoming history exam. He at this point had a mostly memorized layout of the vents, one more right turn… and Boom!. He was right above Mrs. Norberg’s desk. He scribbled the answer on the his piece of paper, he would have to write in neater, later.
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Math class as always was a bore, He wasn’t a bad student per say, academically at least but math was not his strong suit (though he was great at money if he did say so himself). So Scott spent his time thinking over his orders, shelby wanted more audio books, Joel needed him to get his lighters back, and Lauren needed him to steal her some eggs from the kitchen. All of those would be fairly easy, and they paid well. He was pulled out of his thoughts by a nervous looking kid Sitting next to him. It was odd Scott didn’t recognize him. The boy was short, scruffy and he wore a dusty purple jacket covered in pins and spikes. He grinned at the boy, when He caught him staring. Scott ripped off a piece of notebook paper, wrote on is quickly and passed it to the boy. The boy handed it back after a moment, his handwriting was messy but still legible and it said that this new boys name was jimmy, he kept sparing small glances to jimmy, until the end of class when Mr. Hunt waved him over
“Scott can you show jimmy around “
“Of course “ Scott waved jimmy over, and after they walked into the hall Scott turned to him “welcome dear jimmy to hell, I'll be your guide “ Scott strut down the halls jimmy trailing behind him
“This is the Mrs. Norberg room, she’s our history teacher” he snatched the schedule right out of Jimmy’s hands “you have her after lunch, which we should probably go to” he practically dragged jimmy to the lunch room “you can sit next to me if you want” he nodded and Scott skipped along.
The rest of the day went off without a hitch, Scott got Joel’s lighter back and got paid 5 bucks for it, he also learned a lot about Jimmy . first he had a sister named Lizzie, second he moved here because his dad got a new job, third was that he loved poppies. On the walk home Scott, thought over his schedule for the rest of the day, after he got home he would do his homework, then would stop at the bookstore on the way to work to get audio books for Shelby, and then he would go work And when he got home he would eat, shower, and hopefully get a reasonable amount of sleep but in reality he would probably stay up way to late.