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[Cruze.]

levi o'brien

Levi mumbled a little as he rolled over in his bed, pulling his phone out from under his pillow. He looked at the time. Levi had only gotten an hour of sleep and was going to be late for school as it was. He cursed under his breath. "Really regretting that..." he moaned and somehow managed to get his body out of bed. The night, or that morning, he had played halo and call of duty up until he finally decided to get the single hour of sleep he put in. Levi walked slowly towards the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He had serious bed head. Another moan escaped his lips and he jumped in the shower.

He got dressed in some blue jeans and a green t-shirt. Walking out of the bathroom he grabbed his books and put them in his backpack, putting that over both his shoulders and getting his converse on as he walked towards the front door. Luckily the kid lived across from the school, so he wouldn't be too late. Levi yawned softly and quickly walked across the street. He stepped foot inside the doors and kept his head down, avoiding anyone who looked like they might be in a mood to get after him.

Levi successfully made it to his locker where he put his back pack in side and grabbed a few books. He was pushing time, but he knew he could make it to his first class. He slipped in and went to the only available seat in the government class, right as the bell went off for the start of the day. He took a deep sigh of relief that he had just barely made it.

thane rogers

Thane moaned as he looked out the window beside his home's from door. He never liked driving to school, mostly because he had to drive his sisters too. They were freshmen and sophomores this year. It wasn't that he didn't like his sisters, he just hated cramming them into his tiny truck. Once they were both ready Thane grabbed his keys from the small table beside the door and he walked out to throw his backpack into the bed of the truck. He yawned a little and looked over to the door and saw them both hurrying towards his little red Toyota. He laughed a little and then walked over to the drivers side and unlocked his door. The small single cab space was barely enough for two, even though it had three seat belts it was a tight squeeze. It was just lucky he had small sisters.

Thane reached over to the passengers side and unlocked the door for Rachel and Carley and then he started the '91 stick shift. Once both the girls were in the truck he put it into reveres and backed out of the drive way. Thane drove to the school like normal, feeling claustrophobic and not being able to see much of anything. Eventually though he arrived to the parking lot and he parked the truck and got out, making sure he locked his door. It was one of his pet peeves to not lock car doors. Once He got his backpack from the bed of the truck he walked up to the building of people. A small smile on his face.

Thane walked through the halls of the school building, his backpack on one of his shoulders. He smiled warmly as he saw some of his teammates walking beside him and they high-fived as they passed in the hallways, making quick idle comments as Thane went to his locker. When Thane finally arrived to locker number 245 he put on a straight like face as he moved his fingers along the dial of the lock. He fiddled his fingers a little and then finally unlatched the the metal chamber that held most of his things for school. Once Thane had his backpack off his shoulders and in the locker he grabbed a pencil and his History things and then closed the locker door.

The brown headed jock turned his body towards the History room and had his previous smile on his face again. Thane let his things rest beside his leg, holding them in his hands loosely. He continued to let his feet carry him towards the door of the History class and he walked through the door and looked at the other kids sitting in the room with their things. He shrugged a little and went towards the middle of the room and sat down in an empty desk.

blake sandow

Blake grumbled a little as he stared blankly at his ceiling. His sheets were barely over him and he was sweating form the heat of the night. His sister and mother were both cold-blooded. They had the house and eighty degrees at night and he couldn't do anything about it. If he left his window open to keep himself cool, they would yell at him and close the window. If he brought in a fan, it would get it's fan like emotions smashed into tiny little bits of emptiness. Blake never slept well because of the two women in the house; you would think he would get used to it, but no, he never did.

He mumbled and then reached for his phone which was happily resting it's little head under his pillow. When he saw the time he remembered it was a school day and he had to leave in twenty minutes. "Oh fruit juice." he quickly snorted out of his mouth and kicked the mess of thin sheets off his body and ran into the bathroom, banking the turns with his socks and the hardwood floor. Within seconds of looking at his phone, Blake was in the shower and quickly cleaning himself off.

Once he was out of the shower he scurried into his bedroom, a towel around his body, and then grabbed a pair of blue jeans and put them on followed by a navy blue shirt and jacket. Right as he got his shirt on he went for his phone and saw no new text messages so he pulled up one of his friends numbers and start typing a message. 'Well good morning! Today's forecast is... Uh... A forecast. There are guessed to be aunts in the school food today which consists of broccoli and rotted mystery meat. Have a nice day, and remember, be bubbly.'
A text message like this wasn't uncommon to receive from Blake, and he had sent it to Isabella. She was probably the one person who knew him the best at the school or in his own home, they had, after all, been friends since grade school. With a yawn he grabbed his wallet and keys and went to his car and drove off to school, the place he was most certain would kill him in the near future.

[ pardon any mistakes. Editing them is a tad annoying on my iPad. ]

[littleghosthunter]

aмerιcυѕ jerry

Beep. beep. beep. Americus groaned slamming her hand down on her snooze button. Once that action was done she smiled mumbling, "much better." She rolled over onto her stomach burying her face into the pillow. Seconds later she was snoring, and her mom was entering her room.
"Ameri get up you have school," her mother scolded walking over and tearing the blanket off of the blonde girl.
"Is she playing sleeping beauty again? Do we need to get the dogs?" her father called from down the hallway. Americus sat up at the mention of that horrible morning. She shivered remembering how she was woke up. It wasn't pleasant.
"I'm up, go away. I'm up." she muttered in her Aussie accent. Her voice think with sleep. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes she climbed out of the bed and sighed. Walking like a zombie to her closet she pulled out a pair of ripped jeans a plain white tank top and a red plaid shirt throwing them on her bed. Her eyes landed on her clock. Only 6:30.
Groaning she marched into her bathroom to shower like every other day. She only took 20 minutes in the shower, and then she was out getting dress. After she was dress she towel dried her hair the best she could. Running the brush threw her hair she sighed staring in the mirror biting her lip as she stared into her grey eyes. Turning she marched into her room to put her boats on.
They were a pair of Durango cowgirl boots. She pulled her pants legs over the boots and grabbed her bag skipping out of her room and downstairs. Once down there she was greet by her two over energetic dogs.
"Good morning, Sparks, Asher." she muttered scratching the Blue healer and Siberian husky behind the ear. She fed them first before grabbing a bowl of cereal for herself. She ate in piece that is until she looked at the time. She nearly choked on the cereal she was swallowing. Shoving the rest of it in her mouth the threw the bowl in the sink. She had to get to school in twenty minutes. And her drive was longer than that.
"Bye mum, dad! Love you!" she called out before running outside to her '05 Ford. She shoved the keys into the ignition and tore out of her driveway, and down the rood.

Americus arrived to school with five minutes to spare. But she's not saying she didn't go over the speed limit. And she only ran one red light! She didn't mean to but the lights changed so fast and didn't give her time to slow down, so she ended up running it.
Walking in threw the school doors she sighed, and went to her locker. Putting in the combination and then pulling it open placing her abg in. She pulled out the things she needed for her classes for the first half of the day.
"To history I go," she muttered under her breath and walked down the hall towards her first class of the day. She shared a lot of her classes with the jocks of the school, and it often annoyed her especially while she was trying to get her work done.
She had sat in the front row, and in her seat just as the bell had rung and the teacher walked in not even a minute later.

[thunderofthedrum]

Casi pulled out her favorite pen; it was had purple ink but Mr Branson never fussed enough for her to actually take him seriously. The other teachers didn't allow such colorful writing so she had to use it when she could. It simply made sense.

As Mr Branson began talking and had them pull out their textbooks, Casi let out a small sigh. She was a little worried about her grade in this course, actually, but it was mainly because it was so boring. After he talked for a bit he passed out worksheets for them to use the book with, and Casi settled in to get it done - that much at least she could do to get an easy grade, and goodness knew she needed it after not doing the homework. Her maman never really cared about the specifics of her report card unless she was in danger in failing, but Casi had been looking into colleges and what she found was worrisome.

When she was about a quarter of her way through the worksheet a thought occurred to her. She rummaged through her binder and covertly found the missing assignment, still blank from when she'd received it. Slyly working on it now while everyone else was surely doing the current worksheet, when she was finished she made her way up to Mr Branson and turned it in a little late, claiming to have just found it in her bag.

Luckily he took it without too much skepticism; she was hardly the first to pull that trick but she didn't think she'd done it to him yet. Hopefully he'd still grade out of full credit, but anything was better than a zero.

Feeling a weight lifted off her chest, she slid back into her seat carefully and with grace, though mentally there was a big sigh of relief. She went back to work on the worksheet and when the class was all through and starting to get restless, Mr Branson had them pair up for the next part of the lesson. Although he'd been laid back about the seating chart, he always seemed to like being in control of partners. Casi could only guess that it was the result of too much chaos from letting kids pick their own partners in years past.

"You guys in this, this, and this row, partner with the person diagonally in front and to your right. Leftovers, just partner amongst yourselves," he announced, before licking his finger to begin passing out the next papers. Apparently for this they were supposed to create a user-friendly diagram of something government related; Casi had been too busy getting out her colored pencils to catch the specifics but figured it would be described on the paper anyway. Looking up to see who her partner was, she felt her cheeks heat up just a little.

Levi.

[strawbewwy.]

(Sorry for not responding last night, I was watching the Superbowl and had zero muse.)

Jacelyn woke up to the sound of her alarm clock and instantly shut it off, spooked at the sound. She stretched then turned on the light in her room to see in her closet. She wasn't overly picky on what she wore, as long as it wasn't dirty. She looked around in her closet for a minute or two, and ended up deciding on wearing a white quarter-length shirt with a dark blue skirt that reached her knees. Finding a pair of shoes was even easier, as she wore her black flats that generally went with everything she wore.

Before heading downstairs she took a peek into her younger brother's room to see if he was awake yet. Only being thirteen he still hadn't quite adjusted to the fact that he had to wake up super early. His room was empty though, so she assumed that his alarm clock did his job. She head into the bathroom and quickly brushed her hair and teeth, not bothering with makeup like usual.

She ran downstairs and slipped into the kitchen where she found her brother looking half-dead eating a bowl of cereal.

"Hey Ben," She said, stifling a yawn as she passed him to grab a granola bar. "Hurry up, we'll be late if we don't hurry." She added as she finished it, throwing the wrapped in the trashcan. He simply nodded, to tired to care at the moment. Once he finished she grabbed her book-bag (and made sure he had his) then she hopped into her car and dropped her brother off, then parked and quickly headed inside, only now realizing the time and how she's almost late.

She mentally scolded herself as she put her bag in her locker after taking out her neatly organized binder and rushed into Literature, quickly sitting down at her desk before the bell rang. She quickly got out her completed homework just before the teacher came in, glad that she made an effort to do her homework in study hall or as soon as she got home.

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levi o'brien

Levi fiddled with his pen, staring down at the paper on his desk. He had the book open and he pulled the answers from his book rather quickly. These worksheets were a breeze for him. He was passing all his classes with A's; how, he had no idea. Levi was always playing his video games at home, but he some how managed to get everything turned in and done. It was probably because this stuff just came naturally to him.

Once he finished, his hand fiddled with the pen yet again. He looked up at the rest of the class, keeping quiet and trying to avoid anyone who might want to spark up a conversation. Levi was terrible with people. He always had been. He only had one friend at the school, one whom he only saw one a day, at lunch. The thought of a group project terrified Levi, no matter who he was with. HE felt things would just go downhill from the second he was pair up. He cursed in his head as he heard the mention of groups utter from the teachers mouth.

Hearing the partners along with the sounds of moans and cheers from people who got someone they either liked or disliked only made him incredibly more nerve wrecked. He glanced back over his shoulder, his brown eyes really the only thing visible. They caught the sighed of blueish eyes, perfectly painted with make up. Nothing too much, just enough to bring them out from the rest of her face and away from the blonde hair that covered her head.

Another curs escaped from his thoughts and then got muttered out of his mouth. Not loud so anyone could see, and no one could read his lips thought his arm. He quickly pulled his glance from her and took a deep breath, trying to calm his thoughts. Normally he managed to get the other unwanted kids in the class, but never the head of the school. Once he got his mind under control he looked back over at her, grabbing his few things and walked over to her, sitting down at the now open desk that was in front of her.

"Uhhh, so.... Errr..." He mumbled gently and then felt his face heat up. He took a second to plan his words. "What we do?" He blurted out and then cursed in his head again. "Sorry," he grumbled "What do you want to do?" he finally state, clearly.

thane rogers

Thane laughed a little at the sounds of his friends joking around. They were making stupid and pointless remarks, but somehow manged to make Thane laugh with them. He yawned a little and heard the teacher start to talk, quieting the stupidity of his fellow teammates. His brown eyes looked up at the teacher, his hands drumming on the desk to the sound of 'We Will Rock You' by Queen. She took no hesitation in getting right into what they would be doing for the day.

Merely minutes passed and a few moans went through the class as they learned of a partner project. Something he hated hearing himself, but avoided a moan. He watched the teacher as she explained the project. It was simple, a presentation. The topic was by choice of the partners. She continued to speak, until finally the moment most of the students were waiting for, partners. On this odd day she decided she was going to pick whom would be subjected to whom.

She walked around the room and started to pair people up. She had no method, she just put people with one anther. "Thane, you're with Americus" she stated before continuing on to her next victims. He looked up at the girl whom he was pair with and took a deep breath. He had seen her before, knew who she was, but never really talked to her. He didn't know that much about her aside from her name and grade. And that they had their History class together.

[littleghosthunter]

aмerιcυѕ jerry

Americus situated herself in her desk an tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Paying no mind to the class that was filling up quickly, minutes away from the first bell. She pulled out her sketch book and opened to her most recent drawing that she was working on.
It was of a wolf, and a skull head. It had arrows and roses in the background. A candle resting in the open jaw of the skull, and the wolf just snarling. It had a tint of purple in the drawing to add volume. Make it look like it's slightly popping out in areas. She just had a few spots to touch up in her drawing. Sticking her tongue out of the corner of her mouth in concentration, she glanced up at the teacher.
People groaning brought her out of her creative, and silent world. Her head snapped up and her grey eyes locked on the teacher as she tried to catch onto what the teacher was talking about. She understood a few mere seconds later when she started listing off names.
Ami's eyes widened, she hated group projects. She feared them, she was horrible with people. And she preferred to work on her own, so she could be alone with her drawings and music. Just anything that meant she was alone.
But then again in group projects she'd normally take all the work then put both of their names on it. That normally pleased people. Nodding her head that's what she decided she would do. Take all the work, make it an A+ project, then slap both of their names on it and turn it in. She let out the breath she was holding and turned back to her drawing.
Tapping her pencil against her chin she started thinking, wondering if she should add anything else. Shaking her head she decided to start shading her drawing. She was so caught up in her drawing, her world that she didn't hear her name be called, or who she was working with.
As long as it wasn't anyone bad she was completely fine with the person. As long as they weren't rude, or demanding she have the work done by a certain time before the deadline. And just things like that. Once the teacher had finished talking. Americus was finished with her drawing and just stared at it. She had an eraser out, and a pencil. Just in case she thought there were areas she had to touch up a bit or something.

>>This is what her drawing looks like. It's not my picture so the credit goes to the owner of the picture.

[thunderofthedrum]

Cassandra was starting to see that she could get better grades when she tried, but the issue was in the trying. Homework took so much time sometimes, and it was just not something typically on her mind. She didn't know how to remember to do it or how to have the self control to actually sit down until it got done.

She saw Levi's eyes meet her gaze but instead of dropping it shyly, she lifted her chin slightly and managed to cool her expression. Well, at least she knew he was smart and a hard worker, right? She would rather be with her friends but, if she couldn't, at least Levi would make sure they got a good grade. After all, he was such a little geek! He wasn't terrible on the eyes but he was often busy with the strangest things. Didn't he have some little geek friends to hang out with at least?

He was hardly the top prize in this raffle but he'd proved himself before; he'd helped Casi out a few times recently with her phone when it'd been glitching. She liked the simplicity of iPhones as well as their popularity but there'd been a problem with a couple of her apps or something. She hadn't really understood his explanation.

Casi straightened her posture and leaned back in her chair slightly, one arm draped across the desk as she waited for him to come over. As he arranged himself and his things at the desk in front of hers, she shrugged at his question once he spat it out properly. "You don't already have an idea or something?" Maybe he wouldn't be so helpful after all...

"He said it's supposed to be a diagram. You have an A in this class, right? You can start looking something up in the book and we can draw it."

At that moment, the teacher spoke up again. "Remember guys, make it clear. Don't just copy definitions from the book. Pretend I'm a fifth grader and you are teaching me about government. Make it easy to understand and learn. And the diagram doesn't have to be a work of art but make sure it's clear and shows some effort!"

"I mean we could just do the obvious, checks and balances thing," Casi offered with a shrug that suggested disinterest. Most of the class was probably doing that idea since it was the easiest and most obvious, one of the main things the teachers strove to carve into their brains.

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