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Coming to a new place, Polo had thought would be a completely new experience, but the ghosts of his past wouldn’t leave him. It wasn’t just what he had done that haunted him, but the responsibilities that had driven him mad as well. School clubs were a thing here too, just like Las Encinas, and he could feel the panic rising at the fact that he hadn’t signed up for anything yet. So he made his way from McKinley to the academy library and found himself a place to set up. He organized his materials meticulously and then set to work organizing his class schedule, homework time allotment, and judged his free time against the club schedule and began writing things down. I should do this… I should do that… Save time for speech practice to keep the stutter away… Look into this… Look into that… The retreat… Mark Leaders… What did I do? Soccer… Swimming… Track… He closed his eyes for just a moment, his head spinning, and when he opened his eyes there was blood on his hands. Not really, but he saw it as a part of his panic attack. @tgaimportant​
The library was a place Jamie had always found comfort, and she’d been visiting frequently ever since she got back on campus. For most of her life, her family name, her weight, and her socioeconomic status had kept her from having too many friends, bringing her to make friends with the characters she read about in her books. She’d loaded her arms this trip, having returned the 6 books she’d read that week to replace them with 6 new, and was looking for a comfortable spot to settle when she spotted Polo at a nearby table. It was obvious something was wrong, or at least not right, and even though she didn’t know him beyond knowing of his family’s affluence, she couldn’t ever be the type of person to turn her back on someone in need. “Hey!” She said brightly, coming to a stop at his table, but not inviting herself to sit down. “You’re new here, right? Polo Villada, I know your name. I’ve read about your family. I’m Jamie! Jamie Huggins! We have a couple of classes together. Are you working on that paper for Intro to Submission? I’ve been staring at the guidelines for a couple of days, trying to pull something together.”

















