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"Didja finish the Scorsese assignment?" Lucy asked when I sat down.

I gave her a look. She grinned.

"Yeah, me neither. Did you get your phone taken away again? You weren't answering my texts this morning..."

I rubbed my eyes. I woke up at like, 6:45ish, walked to the bus, got on the bus, got off the bus, walked to school. It was a very autopilot kinda situation that didn't necessarily require me to "wake up." Speaking to Lucy did.

"Uh, yeah," I finally answered.

"What'd you do this time?" she scolded. Thank god I wasn't on my cycle. I probably would've snapped or something.

"She read the Discord," I pulled out The Lord of The Flies which we were supposed to have read the first chapter of. I had about 5 minutes. I flipped to page 3, letting Autopilot answer Lucy's never ending interrogation. Skip that paragraph, skip that page. Skip that paragraph- go back, there was something important there...

"What are you doing May 1st?"

"I dunno."

"Well I've got that concert at the palladium..."

"Oh?"

"I've definitely told you about it before."

Who's Jack again? Go back a page.

"Probably."

"Can you make it?"

"Sure, I've been tryna hang out in that part of downtown a lot more recently."

"Oh? Already memorized the rest of St.Pete?"

Where'd that pig come from? Oh, who cares.

"Nah, Apparently they have a library there, so..."

"Of Course. What's it-,"

"Okay! We're gonna go ahead and get started on presentations!" Our teacher silenced the room with a loud clap. "So please put your books away! We'll go over that at the end of class. Pay attention! Be a respectful audience!"

I put my book away.