<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">An automatic voice says, "All students, lie on the ground with your hands behind your head.  Repeat, lie on the ground with your hands behind your head.  Do not resist."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Garrett Flannery was on his way to Gym class when the first incident of the day occurred.  "Fuck already!"  Garrett had been at the school since his freshmen year.  He had been sent there after a fight with his abusive proved to be his fathers last fatal mistake.  Never mind the fact that he had only been trying to defend his mother.  She never saw it that way and had him taken away faster than he could even say her name.  Well maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration they had actually shared quite a few heated words after Garrett had punched his father in the nose hard enough and in just the right angle to send the cartilage straight into his fathers brain.<br/><br/>Instead of laying on the floor he leaned against the nearest wall and laced his hands behind his head.  He hated the feeling of just laying prone on the floor where some ass wipe could possibly make a strike at him.  He preferred to have his back against the wall ready for anyone who might come at him.  In the beginning most of the guards gave him shit about his seemingly rebellious action.  But after a dozen times of explaining his reasoning most of the guards just let him be about it because they knew he would not resist going with them when asked to do so.  The ones that did not leave him alone most often ended up having "accidents" that could not be traced back to him.<br/><br/>The only good part of having been there so long was the network of friends he had built up over the years.  Most of the students that had been there as long as he had knew him.  Of course that really wasn't saying much when you had spent so much time in one place with most of all the same faces.  His freshman year had been the worst being the new meat sucked at any school but it was even worse here.  But after sending half a dozen fellow students to the nurses office with busted ball sacks and giving some a nose job just like the one he gave his father Garrett had been pretty much left alone.  Except for when the new batch of freshmen were brought in or some new kid on the block was out to make a name for himself.  There was always some asshole who came in with puffed up feathers looking to start a fight.<br/><br/>When the all clear signal was given and no new guard had showed up to give him any shit Garrett resumed his walk to Gym class which he had for the first two classes of the day.