When Penny entered the apartment, there was a kid sitting at the table.
She assumed it was Percy.
When she had first met Sally, Penny had learned that she had a fourteen year old son named Percy. Sally had also mentioned that Percy had been kicked out of seven schools in seven years. Mostly for amazingly strange reasons, including blowing up the gym and firing a Revolutionary War cannon at a school bus. Penny wondered how that was even possible.
Penny set down her things and walked over behind him.
He didn't even seem to notice she was there.
Peering over his shoulder, she saw he was working on math homework.
She studied the problem he was working on for a minute before finally saying, "The answer is Seventy-seven.'
Percy whirled around, revealing startling sea-green eyes.
He stared at her a moment before asking, "Who are you?"
"I'm Penny," She responded, studying his face.
"Oh." He said rather sheepishly.
Then he turned back to his homework.
Penny looked at the other papers on the table.
One in particular caught her eye.
It looked like a report card.
Two F's, one D, a B, and a C.
The highest grade he got was in gym.
Penny suddenly found herself feeling guilty about her "Straight A" report card.
It had been that way since first grade.
She didn't get report cards before that.
Before that, she had gotten complements for being the best behaved student in class.
She hadn't really known that there was such thing as an F or a D.
The lowest anyone she knew had ever gotten was a C.
And that was when Lily had done a report on Peanuts.
The teacher had said it was too biased.
Penny didn't understand how that was possible.
Maybe it had something to do with Lily's allergies...
I think this might be my longest chapter yet! It would have been longer, but I kinda got off topic, and I couldn't really figure out a way to get back on topic.
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Emily