"...and please try to remember that you are all seniors now. Many of you are adults already, or will be by the end of the school year. Do remember that adults are held to stricter expectations than children, and keep that in mind before you do anything stupid."
Jay yawned, and closed his eyes. He was there. He had let them usher him into the auditorium along with the other almost four hundred seventeen and eighteen (mostly seventeen) year olds in his class, even though he had better things to do than sit there while the principal and teachers decided to lecture all of them on the responsibilities of being seniors. That was better than some of the others that he knew, who had realized what was coming, and had skipped out before they could be forced into the mass lecture.
He was even listening...kinda. He was letting all of the information in, and he even processed what it was saying, so he could say that he was listening if questioned on the subject. But, he wasn't really planning on acting on any of it. He had his own ideas of what was responsible, and what he should and shouldn't do. He'd been following them since his early teenage years, and he wasn't about to stop just because he was a year older. Besides, he didn't get in trouble. He was too good to get in trouble, even though quite a few of the things he did would have gotten him in trouble instantly...had he been caught.
"You falling asleep?" the guy next to him (and since they were in alphabetical order, that meant he must have been the rarely present Seth Grattner, though that much was obvious by the fact that Jay barely recognized him) asked him, poking at his side in attempt to wake up the "sleeping" person next to him.
Jay opened his eyes slightly and looked over to his left, where he was being poked from. "No..." he muttered. "Just resting my eyes so I don't have to watch them."
"Oh..." Seth said. He didn't really sound convinced, and Jay didn't blame him. This was enough to put even Niki, the perfect student who couldn't stand to have other people thinking she wasn't paying attention when she should be, to sleep.
But then, she wasn't there to be put to sleep, now was she? Jay almost envied her...but then again, not really. Not when the only thing that would get him to be in her situation would be if she could be freed from it in return. Still, at least she didn't have to be sitting there staring at the principal and wondering when the hell he would shut up and let him get back to a more normal school day. That was one good thing about being locked away from reality, right?