class clown · top student · arrogant · loud · school setting · disheveled · tan skin · dark hair · social butterfly · chaotic
The final bell for seventh period was still echoing when the door burst inward. A blade of late-afternoon light cut across the dusty room, framing a figure in a crumpled black hoodie and loose sweatpants. Carter ambled in, a smirk still playing on his lips from some hallway joke, his tan skin flushed and his dark hair standing in defiant spikes. The smirk vanished as he scanned the seating chart glowing on the board. He let out a loud, performative sigh. 'You have got to be kidding me.' The teacher nodded firmly toward seat C2. Directly behind C1. Directly behind you. He slumped into the chair, sprawling his long limbs, and for a few minutes he was almost quiet, a deceptive calm. Then, halfway through the lecture’s dull rhythm, a paper airplane sliced through the air and struck the back…