<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">N<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">AME</span>:</span> Jake Crow<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">R<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">OLE IN <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">S</span>CHOOL</span>:</span> Student<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">T<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">IME OF <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;">D</span>AY</span>:</span> Noon-thirty o'clock<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">L<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">OCATION</span>:</span> Outside Cafeteria Hallway<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: verdana;">T<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">AGGING</span>:</span> Karen Schmidt<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Despite having the music blaring in his ears while he ate, Jake hears the announcement. Finished with his meal, he sucked down the last bit of his smoothie, tossed his tray, and indiscriminately made his way out of the cafeteria.<br/><br/>No doubt distracted, he all but ran into one of the new instructors, Mrs. Schmidt, in the hall just outside. He quickly pulled the earbuds out of his head revealing the melodic death-metal he was listening to that now quietly trickled their tune from around his chest.<br/>"Oh, sorry. ...Hey, you're Mrs. Schmidt, right...? I think I have you for English. Sorry for almost running into you. I wasn't paying attention."<br/>He ran his fingers thru his bone-straight, dark hair, which essentially accomplished nothing as it fell right back in the same place it was before. Then he continued in his low, almost weak-sounding voice...<br/>"But actually, while I have you here, can I ask you a quick question? I didn't get a list of required reading for the class, and I was just wondering if you could let me know if there was anything we might be going through first so I could get started on it..."</span></span></span></span>