[in utter shambles, as predicted, he arrives, and stops dead at the too-familiar voice. the boy hasn't done his homework, and it's all over his face; he's been busy, the heavy bruises on his left cheek say, he's been distracted, says the sunken, visible eye, and he's been overtaxed, says the package of smokes sticking out of his jeans pocket, a daub of red and white on a washed-out, tattered canvas]
[a brown coat that's so shitty, so ragged it looks more like an animal pelt is tied around his waist, and it flaps behind him like a flag of instant defeat as the door swings shut]
[Badou hasn't done his homework, but it's too late to beg for an extension now (detention, it was, then)]
[and to his credit, after that initial surprise, Badou goes right up to that smog, turning a stupid, sharp freckled nose up into it; he's too used to people who hide behind addictions and words]
...Yah, ya seen a shitty dye-job with a mouth full'a herpes an' bullshit attached?
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[a brown coat that's so shitty, so ragged it looks more like an animal pelt is tied around his waist, and it flaps behind him like a flag of instant defeat as the door swings shut]
[Badou hasn't done his homework, but it's too late to beg for an extension now (detention, it was, then)]
[and to his credit, after that initial surprise, Badou goes right up to that smog, turning a stupid, sharp freckled nose up into it; he's too used to people who hide behind addictions and words]
...Yah, ya seen a shitty dye-job with a mouth full'a herpes an' bullshit attached?