Prompt: 2. D
Character(s): Scott
Word Count: 261
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None
Though it's usually sometimes accompanied by notes that say things like the nonthreatening: 'Not your best work, extra help is on tues. and thurs, 3-4,' or the heart raising and grimace worthy: 'Grades like this aren't going to keep you on the team, Scott. Pull you head out of your ass please, kthx,' and then there's the ones that are simple commands: 'see me after class.'
It doesn't really matter what the comment says, the letter in red seals his fate when he gets home. He has no idea where his mother got the idea but anything less than a B warrants her bringing out the dictionary and for however many C's or D's or F's that's how many pages of the letter he gets to copy down.
A page takes a good hour to get down.
On his chemistry lab about density that he didn't do he's got one page of F's.
His coach's exact words on his paper regarding inflation were 'abysmal,' and 'If I had a cat I'd line the box it urinates in with this, two extra laps around the field today.' A page of C's.
The trigonometry homework grades are enough to earn him three hours of sitting at the dining room table with a exponentially painful cramp growing in his hand for every word.
He spends his free period surrounded in a textbook laden huddle and an index card strewn workspace with a highlighter in his mouth, paper clips stuck to the cuff of his shirt and a leaky pen turning his calluses smurf blue.