The Story Beneath The Shirt

Testing and Shopping

I had finally finished that test. I scored a 590 out of 650 that's not bad, 90%. I waited in the office doodling on a spare page. I didn't really know what i would start drawing i just put the pen to the paper and let my hand freely flow to whatever it was feeling. I waited 20ish minutes before a women popped in.

"How far are you along Max?" she asked coming up to the desk looking at my drawing. I had a highly detailed women with a monster energy drink shirt and ripped jeans. She had long flowy hair that looked like a small breeze was blowing and i had her outside of what looked like a street in london you see in those cheesy films. It looked like the ones where the helpless girl goes to london to make something of herself and it does the panorama view of the town that she goes to stay at.

Pulled from my thoughts while drawing i answered back, "Oh im done, sorry for the drawing i didn't know how long yall were going to be so i decided to draw something to keep me busy while i waited. I got told not to leave this room till one of you came and got me." I placing the pencil down smiling.

"Well that's a very amazing image, you know if you scored high enough on the art section we may be able to fit you in if that interests you. But for now your free to go your brother is in the front office. Just walk out of here and its straight on forwards through that door down there. She points me in the direction and i thanked her walking out.

"Hey, i finished. It said i scored 590/650 so its about 90-91%." i said grabbing nathans attention.

"Oh my gosh that's amazing!" he said exiting whatever he had on his phone. "Wanna go grab a bite to eat, anywhere you want. I want to treat you for doing so well, i'm so proud of you. And you did great on time. The bell is about to release everyone to go home so we have to wait but im so proud of you bub, you did amazing." Nathan hugged me. We stood in the office since we had been sitting down for a while. A women picked up a wired phone pressing a few buttons; over the intercoms you could here her reading off the end of the day announcements. Once she was done she placed the phone down and pressed a button on the wall. The bells rang out and the kids came pouring out of the classrooms and stairwells. I scanned the kids looking at all the different kinds. I didn't see any dressed like i was; which was kind of disappointing but i'm sure i can find some people to be friends with, even if we dont match. Once most of the kids were gone the busses pulled out. Before we left, the office lady handed nathan a piece of paper. She explained it would be a list of things i would need before starting monday and that if we needed help getting anything to contact the number at the bottom and they would see if they had anything available. With that, me and nathan walked out to our car and followed the busses out.

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Back on the road i turned to my CD letting it play whatever it choose. Nathan decided we should go get some school supplies so that i was prepared for when i returned monday. He pulled out the list of things from the office lady based off my score of what i would possibly need. Most of it consisted of pencils, 5 composition notebooks, a bookbag, a art journal and a couple other items. Me and nathan pulled into the parking lot and walked in.

This store was huge, but then again I hadn't been to a store in almost 6 years because I never felt the need to get anything i couldn't just grab at a gas station. Most of the time id buy snacks from the gas station as my dinner since my abusive mother never cooked for me; she'd go out drunk, find a fast food place, order herself food, and then never get me anything. It was the worst feeling in the world to not be able to eat anything other than snacks but thanks to my amazing metabolism i could eat snacks all day and never gain weight; i was 4'11 and only 103 pounds. I snapped out of my thoughts and grabbed the list from nathan.

I headed over to where the bags were first considering that was the main thing i needed. I browsed around before grabbing a semi medium black bag. It wasn't a normal sized bag but it was tall enough i could fit my composition notebooks in. I next grabbed those checking the size. They was a inch short enough to fit which was perfect. I grabbed 5 different colored notebooks, a sketchbook so i could sketch, a separate notebook for if i wanted to join art class; that one had to be shorter one tho to fit in my bag, but was still a really nice sketchbook to say the least, a pack of 30 variety colored sharpies, a couple of different colored pens, a pack of pencils, headphones, and a couple of other items.

Once we checked out and paid nathan took me back to the house so i could get my bag put together. As we pulled in my couch was outside in a really big box ready to be brought in and put together. Me, nathan, and some other helpers pulled it inside and brought it up to my room to be put together. Once together i arranged my room so my bed was against a wall and 5 feet away was my couch in-front of my tv area. It was perfect.

"Max, come down here please." I heard nathan yell from the bottom of the stairs. I was genuinely confused as to why he didn't just come get me. I walked down to the bottom of the stairs. Nathan was in a suit and tie and was holding his briefcase.

"I got called into work for a meeting. We will eat out tomorrow and then ill take you to school monday morning okay?" He said grabbing his keys getting ready to leave the house. I sadly agreed and gave him a hug.