New Kid at School

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!


Fletcher awoke groggily as his hand automatically hit the snooze button. He knew that he shouldn’t just lie in bed, but he was way too tired to deal with anything, even if it meant having to go to his new school with his curly hair sticking up in a dozen different directions. He grappled with his consciousness and snooze button for a fairly significant amount of time before finally rolling out of bed. He looked around the unfamiliar room that he had moved into the week before. They had been moving so much recently, his new school, WilliamHarrisonHigh School, was the third one he had attended that year. He hoped that they’d settle down soon. Junior year was hard enough without all the bouncing around. Besides, who had thought of naming a school after Harrison, that joke of a president who died a month into office after catching pneumonia after talking for way too long? He looked over at the poster he and his best friend made back in Ohio. It was a spoof of those “Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Kindergarten” posters, but dedicated to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy instead. Fletcher smiled wistfully at the poster. It was so true. That series had more knowledge, as eccentric as it was, than school could ever offer him. He could spend days pouring over those books. And books in general. Alternate realities were much more exciting than the real world. He got lost in his thoughts, in his new room of old things. When he finally snapped out of it, he had just barely enough time to brush his teeth and run to school.