October Doyle | Nyctokinetic (achluophobic) wrote in savingthegames, @ 2014-11-18 22:54:00 |
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Entry tags: | julian alvarez, october doyle |
Who: Mr Alvarez & October
What: Supposedly homework, actually falling asleep
When: Tuesday 18th November, 4:00 ish after school
Where: NKN
Warnings: Mentions of child abuse and brief mention of night terrors and bullying
Status: Open
Toby had done the impossible and had managed to find a classroom that was actually empty. Okay, so it wasn't as difficult to find space inside the school after school had let out, but the place was still overcrowded so he considered a completely clear classroom a lucky find.
He'd decided to stay behind and do his homework in the Facility instead of going back to the foster center to try and do it there; they'd had a couple of new kids come in and that had unsettled a lot of the other boys causing an avalanche of unsettled behaviour culminating in a couple of the older boys scuffling with each other and then taking it out on the younger kids, October included.
He was being jostled and bullied by his roommates and so he'd figured not only would school be more conducive to his being able to actually get some homework done but that it would be a pleasant respite from being around them, at least for a little while. He was exhausted though - he hadn't been sleeping well after the party he'd attended when all the shadows had come alive, and that along with the cold in the center and the older boys keeping him awake meant that he hadn't had any real rest for a while, on top of the screaming nightmares that one of the new kids had been having. He couldn't begrudge them though, he had his fair share of elbows in the stomach at night for keeping the rest of the boys awake and he wasn't the only kid there who had nightmares.
He'd all but nodded off during class and even now, elbow on the desk, chin in hand, pencil in the other, he was starting to drop. His mind drifted, for some reason, to thoughts of his friend Gabe and he couldn't begin to wonder why that was (while ignoring the fact that this was happening more and more often); he decided it must be because he still hadn't paid Gabe back for the present of socks he'd been gifted, the items in question currently keeping his feet warm.
Either way, schoolwork was the last thing on his mind as his eyes became heavy and he slowly slipped off into a doze right there in the classroom seated at a desk and slumped over his homework.