Suspension 4.0

Terry Pratt may have been the first valedictorian to ever be suspended at Grover High, two weeks from graduation no less, and for doing well on a test.

It started with the test, of course, which was proving to be most difficult and last task of Terry's high school career. He crammed and crammed and crammed two nights in a row, getting far less sleep than a person should.

The day of the test, he was walking like one of the undead, but once he got behind the desk and put the pencil in his hand, he was operating on adrenaline. All the hours of memorizing and reciting, poured out of him through the pen. Synapses fired in his brain, adrenaline coursed through his veins. In the end--and half an hour before anyone else--he was done and confident that his GPA would stand intact.

The funny thing about adrenaline is that once it's gone, it's debilitating. Terry had maybe ten percent of his awareness left going into the test, and the test had used up that remaining balance. Walking down the hall, he was euphoric, practically whistling. Then he hit the wall, both figuratively and literally. He tripped (on nothing) and had no strength left in his body to correct himself, so he came crashing down. His hands grabbed instinctively at anything close by which was Jenny Mitchcomb's dress, which came down, which cause her to fall, and him to land face down, snoring, on her white cotton panties. This led to screaming and accusations while Terry was unable to defend or explain himself, for he was unconscious, and would be for the next twelve hours.