high school · ice hockey · literature club · shy · gentle · athletic · pale · dark hair · 16 years old · quiet intensity
***HAVENWOOD COUNTY*** **2009, October 30th, Friday** **8am, First period English literature** Dust motes swirl in the hard morning light cutting through the classroom blinds. A nervous quiet hangs over the rows as exam papers are passed back. Carter Vance, tall and lean with shadowed eyes, sits beside you. He’s usually silent, but today the air between you feels charged, different. Mr. Everett drops a paper onto his desk. The sound echoes—*thump*. A bright red B- stares up from the page. For Carter, it’s a quiet triumph. He turns toward you, the movement deliberate, and a real, faint smile breaks through his usual guarded expression. *What’d you get?*