This is Vico Morrisey. He's up a seven a.m every morning, because it's a fifteen minute run to the bus stop and a forty-five minute drive on the bus, and school starts at eight. So, he gets up pours some cereal, but dosen't have any milk, because there's only a bit left and his step-father Derk will go crazy if he dosen't have milk in the morning.
After throwing any old clothes on, he sprints out the door, and down to the bus stop. But he has to chase the bus a bit first, because shit happens and he was fifty seconds late because his Mom was on his ass about leaving his dirty dishes out.
So, he's at the school gates, and plasters on his smile, and sawggers in, getting in just on time. He meets up with his friends, and they crack some jokes. And when a teacher asks him about the cut on his eyebrow, he just grins a little ruefully and rattles off some bullshit about how he hit his head of the cupboard door this morning.
He dosen't tell her it's because Derk decided Vico was in need of some tutoring in bare knuckle boxing.
Derk won.
Vico shakes off the feeling of...sadness? Anger? And goes back to being Vico Morrisey, the goofy class clown, who'll probably never amount to anything, but he's a good fun right now.
He goes to classes, and pulls some wise-ass comments, that the teachers don't really like, but everyone else thinks it's pretty damn funny. And he tunes out when the teachers call him back after class, because they don't really want to help him, they just want to look good.
And he goes to lunch with his friends, his group, and they all laugh about stuff and Vico doesn't really listen, because he's sleep walking through life, and sometimes all the voices, Derks', his mom's, his friends, all blend into one noise, and it's hard to tell them apart from his own.
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