[Thread] First day of school! Who: Dan, OPEN When: January 16th Where: The corridors of McKinley What: Dan's first day of high school. He's a real boy!
A combination of the events of the weekend (he'd had a friend who boarded at Dalton, and was now lying in a hospital bed hooked up to a ventilator) and the less-than-encouraging comments about the school he'd got when he introduced himself had rather dampened Dan's enthusiasm for starting McKinley. But, he reasoned, he wouldn't know how it was until he tried. So he'd hauled his ass out of bed early, picked his outfit and taken care with his hair (better make a good impression), and by the time he'd parked his ancient yellow car outside the school he was unsure whether he was trembling from excitement or nerves. Taking a deep breath, he stepped out of the car and walked into the school, a friendly smile on his face.
The corridors were far more crowded than he'd expected, and he was buffeted and shoved as he headed...somewhere. He had a map of the school and a locker number, but he had no idea where to find the latter and when he tried to use the former, somebody ran into him and he dropped it. He scrabbled around on the floor until he picked it up triumphantly, but it was a little on the trampled side.
He gave up. Scary as it was, he was going to have to talk to somebody.
"Excuse me? Um, sorry, excuse me? I'm kind of lost...?"