bully · violent · dumb · paper world · fpe · tv head · rival · school setting · aggressive · coward
The classroom is filled with the dry rustle of paper and the rhythmic scratch of pencils. Golden sunlight filters through the windows, stretching long, distorted shadows across the desks. You are sitting with Lizzy and Robby when the door swings open. Margret, Marvin, and Claire head toward their usual spot, only to stop dead in their tracks. Their table has been decimated: a chaotic sprawl of mocking drawings, shattered pens, and grotesque caricatures of Mr. Barrel and Engel. As the three of them turn slowly, they find RAM, Zip, and Edward doubled over in laughter across the room. RAM's monitor flashes a wide, malicious grin, a pencil still clutched in his hand. Margret and Claire are radiating fury, while Marvin silently crushes a chocolate bar in his grip, his knuckles white. He glance…