Tenth PSI

May. 23rd, 2010 11:16 pm
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[open call]
 . . . Hello?  Um.  Is this . . . Is this the right number?  This is Mayfield Elementary . . . ?

I'd, um.  I'd like to call in sick.  Lucas . . . Last name?  Ushiromiya.  . . . . . . . .  There isn't any -- A-Ah.  Lucas . . . Lucas Fawlin . . . Grade 7.  No, I just haven't been feeling well . . . Ah.  Mostly fever . . . . . . . . A hundred and um.  Three or four.  U-Up my . . . No.  No.  My mouth . . . A few days.  No.  I haven't seen the nurse . . . Um.  Not yet . . .  My parents . . . ?  They're not home.  And I . . . I don't want to bother them . . . I don't know.  I . . . I really don't think I can.  I don't . . . But I -- I know, but.  It's just . . .  I'm really not . . .

. . .

O-OK.  OK.  I'll try . . . I'm sorry for the trouble . . .


[Ten minutes after this call is made, an unsteady figure walks out the steps of 846 Goldberg, his face flushed and his eyes glossy.  Twenty minutes after that, the boy slowly begins to kneel to the sidewalk somewhere on the route to school, but fails to make it all the way before collapsing forward.  He does not get back up.]

((Feel free to make responses to the phone call or anytime that Lucas is spotted on the street, either after he faints or before.
EDIT: For continuity's sake, I'm going to refer to Margot as finding Lucas first if I make any reference to this simply because she had the first thread.  I wasn't expecting so many replies; thanks everyone!  He'll still remember everyone's kindness to him, though.))

Date: 2010-05-26 03:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
B-But there isn't anything -- . . .

[He figured he'd worried Margot enough, though, after a few moments of silence.]

OK. I might get really bored, though.

Date: 2010-05-26 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] followyouthere.livejournal.com
I could... come read to you or sit with you or something.

Date: 2010-05-26 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
Oh, it's alright. I've taken enough of your time today . . .

Date: 2010-05-26 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] followyouthere.livejournal.com
Alright, well... At least let me walk you back, yeah? Make sure you get there okay.

Date: 2010-05-26 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
That's fine. Thanks again.

[There really doesn't seem to be anything wrong with Lucas anymore. On the way back, he even jogs a little ahead as if to show Margot that he is Perfectly Fine.]

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