avi sutton

avriel "avi" sutton male // 29 // dunwich high school music teacher // ex-musician

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✰ Avriel Sutton ✰ male // 29 // high school music teacher // ex-musician dunwich, devinstone ❝ he is...

[micah-solarte]

“So this kid has written in their homework essay that Ahab’s obsession with finding the whale in literary classic ‘Moby Dick’ is because he ‘needs to get laid’. How do I even go about marking that?” She sighed deeply. “You know finding homoerotic subtexts in texts is actually pretty astute, maybe it’s an automatic ‘A’, what do you think?”

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Avi couldn’t help laughing. Now that was an essay he would’ve liked to read. “I think they earn points for creativity,” he said. “It’s a B, at least. Your class sounds way more interesting than mine. We should, like, switch for a day.”

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97jinse:

Jinse wouldn’t pretend to know how to spell ’creshendo’. He simply disregarded the statement with a mocking smile before addressing the advice, which did seem a little odd– Why, Jinse thought, would someone as good looking at me live away from the spotlight as a teacher?  For the vacation time, perhaps, but he could only go so much time without appearing on TV or on the camera roll of strangers. “That’s probably the last thing on my mind,” he admitted. “I’d rather die than be the one who has to look mature in a room. Why did you become a teacher? You look more like a wrestler to me.”

Quite often, Avi wasn’t the most mature in a room full of high schoolers, but what he’d found was that the key was to appear mature. Now that, he was good at. Once you stripped off the leather jacket and ripped jeans and put on a button up shirt and black pants, one tended to look more mature than they actually were. Avi laughed. “A wrestler? Nah, man.” Avi was nowhere near wrestler stature, but he took the statement as a compliment. “People say ‘if you can’t do, teach’. That pretty much sums up my life in a nutshell.”

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mrnoahdevin:

Noah shrugged lightly, “Maybe. So far my only attempts at facial hair have just made me look like a high school freshman that hasn’t figured out how to shave yet.” he admitted with a small sigh, “I’m studying English though, planning on a PHD. I want to teach it. I’m not completely sure if I want to teach at the high school or college level yet, but at least that keeps my options open?”

Hearing that he was planning on teaching made Avi perk up. That, at least, was something he could talk about. “I’m a high school teacher,” he said, putting the jokes about facial hair aside for now. “Could be worse, but it’s not great. Teaching college sounds much nicer, in my opinion.” Avi would never be able to teach at that level, considering his lack of qualifications, but it was a nice thought. “I teach music though, so what do I know? English is a whole ‘nother animal.”

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camilledupont:

“God, was I really giving you the stink eye that bad?” She asked, a bit ashamed.  It wasn’t that she was angry or pissed at him for smoking, it was more that she was angry and pissed at herself for how much she wanted to join him.  “Sorry, I’ve been quit for awhile now and that just….That looks so good right about now.”

Once he realized that he’d misread her look, Avi couldn’t really blame her. He’d never really tried to quit smoking, but the thought had crossed his mind. It didn’t sound like a walk in the park. “Bummer, man,” he said, continuing to smoke. “I’d offer to stop, but... that’s quitter talk.” He grinned. “What made you quit?”

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norareids:

Nora could tell she struck a bit of a nerve with him as he back down, a smile spreading on her lips calming down a bit from her embarrassment. “Oh, I’m sure you’re so charming,” she responded sarcasm dripping in her voice still not quite ready to back down herself. “A music teacher? Hm...” she hummed in response looking him up and down for a moment, “That’s.. unexpected, for you.” Despite her aggressiveness she had to begin with, she had always expected Avi to go on to big things. He was a local music legend, at least to her, she had expected him to at least make it to Nashville or LA. She never expected him to be back here, but well she never expect herself to be back here either. 

The admission must have come as a shock to her, judging by her reaction. It was most people’s reaction, these days. Growing up, Avi always had such a big personality, the type that would’ve thrived in the spotlight. It was too bad his shitty band couldn’t keep up with him. “So I’ve been told,” he drawled, feeling the same familiar annoyance that caught up with him every time he had this conversation with someone. “I’m not singing the Hokey-Pokey with a bunch of kindergarteners. I haven’t sunken that low. It’s high schoolers, so it could be worse. Had to clean up my act––Mostly,” he added, because he was still somewhat of a thug by teacher-standards. He still smoked, still drank his ass backwards, wore leather jackets and rode a motorcycle. “I still retain the parts of my personality that attracts all the babes,” he said with a wink.

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camialdea:

Camila stared at him with wide eyes before taking a couple of steps back – the fact that she was pregnant wasn’t exactly widespread, more so that her co-workers and friends knew about it. “I was just asking,” she sighed, arms crossing over her chest. “I’d like for my baby not to inhale smoke when it’s just about developing organs.”

Avi sized up the young woman, who didn’t look particularly pregnant. At least, not in the way that was blatantly obvious at first glance. Still, that didn’t mean she wasn’t. He hesitated for only a few seconds before he extinguished the cigarette on the brick wall beside him. He tucked it behind his ear for later use. It was only half-smoked, after all. “Sorry,” he muttered, trying to be a ‘good person’, or whatever. “I wouldn’a got all fired up if I’d known.”

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kathryngray:

“I mean, this is the bus stop. Not everyone can go stand somewhere else.” Kathryn replied, hearing the nearby conversation. She’d never been a huge fan of people smoking, and knew about the effects of second hand smoke. “Although, if you want to slowly kill yourself, that’s up to you.”

Avi turned towards the voice. He had strategically placed himself so that he wasn’t directly at the bus stop. He would have told the young woman this fact if she hadn’t accused him of slowly killing himself. “We all die eventually,” he said to her. “Forgive me for speeding up the process.” Not to mention that smoking was an addiction, one that he’d picked up when he was a teenager, and even though he hadn’t actively tried to quit, he could always blame the addiction. Or he tried to.  

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“Listen, if you don’t like it, you can stand somewhere else,” Avi said as cigarette smoke curled around him in the air. It wasn’t even windy; the smoke wasn’t blowing in anyone’s face and he was always careful not to smoke around kids. “I got here first. Nobody asked you to stand next to the smoking guy, alright?”

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norareids:

As a smug grin fell on the boys face Nora’s irritation grew in her stomach. “Oh be still my thirteen-year old beating heart, Avriel Sutton would have considered me for an official groupie!” her voice raising raising in a mocking octave shaking her head and rolling her eyes. Sass was Nora’s go to coping mechanism, especially when she was embarrassed. She scoffed as he eyed book closing it in a snap, “Clearly.. what brings you a rockstar like you back to our humble town?” 

Avi rolled his eyes. “Alright, alright,” he said. He would have found it more amusing if she hadn’t used his full first name. Instead he was beginning to feel grumpy, even though he’d successfully embarrassed Nora. “The world obviously couldn’t handle my incredible charm and talent, so...” He shrugged. “I became a music teacher.” If you can’t do, teach––that was the saying that haunted him. He couldn’t become a successful musician, so he taught music to teenagers instead. 

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97jinse:

As he heard the first mistake, Jinse pretended to understand. Was that guy trying to tell him that ’dinamics’ wasn’t the right spelling? Puzzling, truly. But the second word did get a genuine positive reaction out of him. “Wew,” he giggled. “Ree-them, ruh-them? How would you pronounce that?” He laughed some more; Finally, after such a long time trying to better his personality, he could make fun of strangers freely! What a good feeling it was. “Guess you’ll need to turn into an Italian teacher, buddy. Unless you wanna see what the hell they can come up with. I’d like to see them spell out allegretto. Bet they’d make it unreadable.”

“Ry-thime?” Avi tried, then shook his head and shrugged. He snorted. “Can’t wait to see how they spell crescendo,” he agreed. Technically, he didn’t think he was supposed to be showing his students’ work to a stranger, but honestly, it was more fun to laugh about it with someone else. He looked at the other man, trying to get a read on his age. “Take it from me, kid––Never become a teacher.”

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mrnoahdevin:

Noah sighed, “I’m twenty-three.” he said, “And I’m a grad student.” he added quickly. Honestly, he’d love it if one day he could at least pass for eighteen. These kind of questions got extremely old. At least after five years at Harvard, people had mostly stopped asking where his parents were.

Avi didn’t bother to hide his surprise, the kid looked way too young for either of those things to be true. But by his response, he got these types of questions a lot. That, at least, was amusing to Avi. “Well, maybe for Christmas this year, Santa will give you some stubble,” Avi said, smirking at his own joke, which in his opinion, was hilarious. “What are you studying, anyway?”

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skylarmoore:

An unmistakable look was thrown towards the bike. “Nice,” She let out in a breath, before letting her gaze trail over to him. “Yeah, dude, except it’s not like you’re gonna bust me out or help if I get caught, so what are the odds here? –Let me tell you, they’re not in my favor, but what’s life without a little danger, right?” She gave him a smile. “I don’t know you for shit and I will break your nose if you try anything, but I wouldn’t mind if you wanted to join in on this escapade.”

Avi listened to her talk, not bothered by what he perceived as aggression in her tone. “Couldn’t agree more,” he said. He, after all, was the type of person to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Life was better with a little danger, in his opinion. Hearing her threaten him only made him smile back. “I’d be honoured,” he said. “All the better for my wallet, right? And what’s the name of my new partner in crime, hm?”

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dcvereaux:

He glanced up from his book at the sound, chuckling. Nikolai had spotted the teacher a bit away doing his..grading maybe? Either way, he sympathized. “That bad huh? Guess that’s what happens when everything else in the world has spell check”

“Spell check can’t save these kids,” he sighed, leaning back in his chair. “I mean seriously, who spells conduct with a ‘k’?” He was seriously considering burning the entire stack. “Is it totally unethical to just give them all F’s?”

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georgecalloway:

George knew many people got nervous around lawyers, he was partly glad his girlfriend was in the law buisness for the reason alone that she understood his job and when he was having bad days. “That is a great observation.” George said nodding his head.

Avi leaned back in his chair, raising his eyebrows at the other man. When he offered no more of an explanation, he snorted. “How long have you lived here?” he asked. “’Cause you look like you could be like my age but I’ve never seen you before in my life.”

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97jse:

For the first time in a while, Jinse felt like he could relate to a complete stranger. The all too familiar misplaced rage that emanated from that man somehow amused him, and he couldn’t help but chuckle, maybe a bit too loudly. In order to avoid looking like a fool in front of all those people, he decided to try to carry out a normal conversation: “Lemme see. I can’t spell either, so I’ll tell you if you should burn it or not. Can’t be that bad.”

Avi paused, considering the other guy for a long moment before shrugged and letting him look. “One kid spelled dynamics with an ‘i’. And rhythm –– R-I-T-H-Y-M.” Maybe he was being a bit too particular, but he thought even someone with zero music knowledge would know how to spell those words. “Can’t fucking wait until we get into the Italian music terms. That’ll be fucking great.”

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norareids:

As soon as Nora recognized the face of the man who had shadowed over her, her stomach dropped a crimson color filling her cheeks. Recognition was immediate for her, she had spent enough times day dreaming about Avi Sutton in her tween years that she would recognize his face anywhere. “Nora,” she said curtly straightening up in her seat a bit. “Last time you saw me I was fourteen with nothing else to do in this god forsaken town but listen to some shit band.” She just hoped that Avi didn’t remember more than that, she will admit she was a fangirl. But being young naive and in a small town like Golden, a band of hot high school boys was the greatest thing ever at that time in her life. From what she could remember her friends and her use to sneak out to all of their gigs. 

Avi dwelled on the satisfaction he got from seeing Nora blush. Though his band was long dead now, it had its glory days and he never dismissed an opportunity to be reminded of that. “Riiiiiight, Nora,” he said, drawing it out with a smug grin. “Definitely remember you. You were a fan, yeah? Hm, if you’d been a bit older you could’a been an official groupie.” He winked and helped himself to the chair beside her. “I see you’ve moved on to greater pastures,” he said, sarcasm dripping from his tone as he nodded to the book in her hands.