School for Scumbags

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam had left the cafertia and had then wandered around the campus for almost an hour to memorise the routes to the various classes he had on his schedule.

Feeling he had the best routes firmly fixed in his memory, he then headed back for his dormitory room and collected a pilots bag. This did not contain clothes, it housed his 'baby' maintenance kit, from cleaning items to small tools. Everything he could fit in there to look after his prized motorcycle was in the bag.

Slinging it over his shoulder he had then headed for the garage.

He was now crouched down before his red Harley Davidson, surrounded by various cleaning items. He was meticuously cleaning the bike from headlamp to rearguard. He took his time, he did not want to rush for two reasons; one being it could make for a bad job, and the other; he enjoyed taking care of his bike, he found it relaxing.

[Aaron Gordon]

Sam was not the only one who was working today. to pass his time Aaron often fixed the cars and bikes. he had his own, but it was locked up tight because he had been bad. the staff had finnaly caught him, after braking that kids nose. so he was paying it today, by fixing the cars. He was under the hood of a blue car, fixing it. He chucked the tool he was using to the side, and got a diffrent one. He may be from Germany but he was very good at fixing things.

He also may be a thief, but fixing stuff was something he was very good at, he knew what parts go where and things.

He hummed to himself, he dident even hear Sam come in. he had a radio next to him, that was playing rock music, not loudly, maybe jsut loud enouth for anyone to enter to hear it. Aaron was muttering to himself in german again, annoyed that he had just cut his hand.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam had noted Aaron when he entered the garage, it was a little difficult not to with his having the radio on and playing Rock music. But he had left the teen to his tinkering while he went about cleaning his bike.

He paused and glanced towards Aaron, from the male's body language something was annoying the teen. He stood up and strolled over.

"Hi Aaron, nice car." He stated as he approached, assuming it was the teen's car since he was working on it.

"What'cha doing to it?" He then asked curiously, as he stopped by the younger male's side, it was then he noticed the teens hand. "Ouch, what happened?" He asked.

((FYI I know nothing about cars or bikes, so will be 'winging it'.))

[Aaron Gordon]

[Occ: Nor do i, dont worry]

Aaron jumpted out of his skin when Sam had spoken. he looked over at him, and finnaly notised his bleeding hand, as he pain was now starting to show. He looked down at it, he took a hanky from his pocket and wrappted his around his hand. He asnwerd Sam's questions 'Its ont of the staff's, i'm fixing the engien' He said, getting another cloch and whipping the blood off his arm, then the engien.

Aaron looked over at his locked posh bike, he pointed to it 'thats mine' he looked sadly at it. it was locked at both wheels, and the only thing he could get from it, was the helmet. He had always liked Sam, he dident have at go at Aaron for talking in german.

[Samuel Templeton]

((I'm still down with one of my migraines, they last days, so this might not be very good.... I'm only really supposed to be on to check e-mails...))

Sam watched as Aaron took care of his hand, he then smiled slightly in bemusement as the teen stated it was a staff car. "And they let us kids repair them..." He joked since some of the kids who would be likely to mirror those in here, that he had run into over the years, you would not let them in your car, let alone work on it.

"Nice they trust you with the job." He added, tone turning serious, as he looked under the hood. He was jsut looking, this was Aaron's project he would only help if asked.

He pulled his head out from under the ever so enticing hood and looked at the teen. "THis a standard privilage?" He asked, being able to work on the cars and bikes on site would make his stay more pleasent.

He looked where Aaron did. "Nice bike, how long until you're allowed it back?" He asked, noting that it was securely locked up.

[Aaron Gordon]

[Occ: Dont worry. ]

Aaron thought for a moment, he was only trusted with there cars, becuase he was so good at fixing them. He then nodded 'Yeah. theres lots of spare cars and bikes to work on aswell' he said, moveing past Sam to open the car door and turn the engenge on. Nothing happend, sighing he moved to the frount and startd to work on it again.

'I get it back when the guys nose is healed' he said. his englsih was deffently inproveing, he could talk in english all the time, but his acsent was still german, and very thick. He slipted his hand deep into the car and started to feel around for something.

[Samuel Templeton]

((Hope you're feeling better Emily.))

Sam smiled some. "Great, hopefully they'll let me work on those, otherwise this place is going to get real boring real fast." He replied, glancing around the garage as he did so wondering which were the spare vehicles.

He then looked back to Aaron as the teen tried to turn the engine over and it did not work, he watched as he moved back to fiddle under the hood. "Need a hand or have you got it covered?" He asked, then after a beat added. "If the staff won't throw a fit at unauthorised work on one of their cars."

He blinked, and shook his head slightly. "So what'd he do to end up with a broken nose?" He asked curiously.

[Aaron Gordon]

Aaron shook his head, he dident really need help 'i got it coverd' He said putting a wire or somthing back in its place, when he removed his hand it had black pots over it, from the dirty-ness of the engen and oil. rubbing his forhead with his forarm he looked at Sam, to see him looking around for the spare vehicles. Aaron pointed behind him, where the bikes where agenst the wall in a row, and there was only one car. that was in a dreadfull shape.

Sam had asked about the boy Aaron trippted up. 'i tripted him up, he was running around like a.. uhh..' Aaron thought for a moment. What was the word he was looking for? 'like an ideot' he said, haveing to change the word because he wasent sure what it was in english. he did that a lot, sometimes his sentences made no sence because he ahd to change a lot of the words fromg erman into english.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam nodded with a slight smile, not surprised that Aaron did not need any help. He looked to where the teen pointed taking in the bikes and nodded again, understanding then that they had one car and a few bikes that were school property rather than privately owned.

He leant on the car as Aaron explained how the kid had wound up with a damaged nose.

He nodded. "Annoying, hopefully he's not one of our roommates." He stated with a derisive look, people running around like they were on something be it a sugar overdoes or high on drugs were annoying.

He pushed himself off of the cars side. "I'm cleaning my bike, yell if you need another pair of hands for anything." He stated with a smile at the teen, since sometimes tools needed getting and you had your hands full of whatever.

[Aaron Gordon]

'Actualy.. is he' Aaron said, not removieng his head from the engence that he was fiddling around with. Finnaly giveing up on that bit, he moved away, and rubbed his forhead a little. he looked at the car, as it was tied down to some big bricks that held it high so he could work under it, but only on his back. Moveing away slightly, he kicked a skatebord over, it was tied to the floor, but had a long wire so he could use it. He layed carefully on the skatebord, and used his legs to slip under the car.

Aaron was half glad that Sam was moveing away, he had to conentrate so hard on this, so that it would work, talking took his mind off it. Aaron desided to change the subject, he spoke softy towards Sam, but loudly enouth so he could hear him from under the car's frame. 'You dont talk about your life a lot, do you?' he spoke, his acsent being its naturel witch was a mix of german and french.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam let out a sigh at the news that the hyper kid was a roommate of theirs. He hoped the others would be nice quiet kids, he really hated sharing as it was, but with hyper kids, it was even more annoying.

He paused at Aaron's words, wishing he had a buck for everytime someone had said that or similar to him.

"Not much to tell, I'm an orphan then foster kid and then a care home kid. Moved around a lot cos of that." He stated with a slight shrug even though the teen was not looking at him, he had noted the cameras in the garage.

He knelt down to start cleaning his bike again having given part of his new cover story. His parents this time had been killed by a drunk driver when he was 9, to old to be cute enough to adopt so placed with foster carers, that never worked out because of his anger problems at that age from loosing his parents.

"So have you got any siblings?" He asked the teen, having years of experience in knowing it was better to turn questions from yourself by being interested in the other person. He was ready with his cover story when the question was turned back on him, this time he was the youngest of 3 boys, his brothers both also dying in the phantom car accident.

[Aaron Gordon]

Aaron thought for a moment, as he started to do a pipe or something from under the car, but when the question hit him about his sister, he dropted it, hitting him on the head and rolling towards the frount of the car. He dident seem to notise, or that his head was sore, or that he had dropted his tools and almsot ran over his own hand with the skatebord.

It was lucky that the camres couldent see him under the car. the pipe had finnaly rolled out and hit agenst Sam, it was big and heavy but it wasent rolling fast. Aaron sighed and said 'Vanessa. my parents dident like my downward spirel into drugs and partys. so they sent me here, i swear they jsut wanted me out of there stuped rich life' he said angergly. ignoreing the missing pipe, he moved in a bit more so only below his wasit could be seen. he mutterd in german to himself.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam's head shot up at the sound of tools dropping, he winced slightly as he saw Aaron run over his hand, not that the teen seemed to notice. He had obviously unknowingly hit a nerve.

He reached down and picked up the exhaust that hit his right foot. He straightened holding it and moved back for the car and Aaron.

Sam frowned as he realised he had indeed hit a large nerve, he did not know what to say in response to that news.

He lent down and offered the teen the exhaust. "That's a tough break, but sounds like you might be better off here." He stated, he had been in a couple of homes where kids did drugs, so saw the parents point of view. But he'd also seen favouritism in various homes and knew how that could affect the other kids.

[Aaron Gordon]

Aaron saw his feet move closer, and then the pipe, reaching down, so his hand appred it took it, but dident say anything eles. He fixed the pipe back on, ignoreing his red hand that was becomeing very sore within a few moments. Sam had deffently hit a nerve with Aaron, his parents favourd his sister over him. She knew perfect american, but stuggled with german and french, the opaset of Aaron, wher he stuggled with english, but knew perfect german and french.

He rememberd as a child, the life he lead, of late nights, of stealing and doing almsot anything to get there attention drawn off his sister, but it only failed, and landed him up here. He liked it here, he had a few friends, or people he spoke too, he often lied about his life, saying he dident have a sister. Aaron kept quiet, untill the silence was annoying him, he spoke softy again 'Maybe' was all he spoke.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam let go of the exhaust as Aaron's hand came out for it. He leant on the car for a moment, waiting for a reply. When he got none he moved off. He was not going to fill the silence, he would let Aaron talk if he wanted to.

He crouched by his Harley again and picked up a shammy and started to clean it again. He turned his head when Aaron finally broke the silence and said maybe.

"You know the local area?" He asked, changing the topic. If Aaron did, then he'd suggest him showing him around when the pair were allowed off the estate. He figured it would serve to purposes, getting to know the area and getting some more relaxed non monitored time with Aaron. He figured the teen might like a trip out.

((Sorry minds blanking for the thread.))

[Aaron Gordon]

[Dont worry]

'Yeah. easy to learn becuase its small' he said, he guessed that if the school was by a large town, they could run away easily, but it wa slike this place was in the middle of no-where, maybe just a small town near it. enouth to support a small group of people, maybe to support half of the school, he dident know a lot about it eather, jsut that it was small, and a little boreing, expt for the park. Aaron likes to spend time there, jsut swinging on the swings, not like a child would, just a little.

Aaron finnaly came out from under the car. he stood up, and lent agenst it, rubbing his head and looking down at his hand, that was starting to bleed. he took out a hankie he had and tied it around where his hand was bleeding, that would do for now.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam kept working as he listened. He bit down on a sigh, although he had expected as much because it made sense not to have a place like this neat large towns.

"If we can get a pass, want to show me around it sometime?" He softly asked, turning as he heard Aaron come out from under the car again.

He frowned seeing the bloody hand and reached for his pack fixed to his bike. He unlocked it and quickly pulled out the first aid kit that he always carries as he rose from his crouched position.

He headed over to the teen and held out some wipes to clean the wound, so he could then bandaged it more securely. "Let me see to that." He half offered, half ordered.

[Aaron Gordon]

Aaron sighed and held out his hand, to let Sam fix it up. he was used to being orded around when he was little. drawing hi thoughts away, he watched as Sam seemed to do soemthing to his hand. He pressed on there preveses subject again. What happend to your parents?' he asked, he might of guessed that Sam wouldent ask him anything to do with his sister, hopefully. if he did, Aaron would have to grin and bear it, by asnwering the questions without getting himself hurt again.

He almost jumpted out of his skin when the door opend, he turned to see who it was, one of the staff. She walked over and looked at the car that Aaron had been working on. She was impressed, but annoyed when Aaron said it still wasent working, adn that it would take longer to fix. He guessed that by her apperence, they had to leave or something.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam steeled himself, as if it was a painful subject. He just thought of his real family to make the lies believable.

"Drunk driver when I was nine, I was the only one who somehow survived. My older brothers and parents died." He stated softly and flatly, clearly showing this was not a subject he liked to talk on.

He finished tending to Aaron's hand and took a step back and put things back into the med kit. He was back at his bike putting it away again as the door opened.

He just listened to the exchange, not really liking the woman's attitude. Aaron was not a paid mechanic who had to work to a deadline, so why expect the car done by a certain time. He hoped he did not have much contact with the woman. He kept his mouth shut not wanting to get Aaron into more trouble with her.

[Aaron Gordon]

Aaron thought it was deffently not good to contine to dwell on both there pasts, Seeing as Sam had a big loss and many homes, maybe never feeling like he was home. Where Aaron on the other hand had a liveing and breathing family, but one that never worryed about him, never came to viset or even care if he was alive or dead. Somehow he felt a connection towards Sam, maybe becuase of both there losses in a way.

Aaron watched as the women walked away, his eyes drifting, but he pulled them away to watch Sam go back to his bike. he couldent do mutch for the car right now, not with his hand, he rubbed the back of neck with his normal hand and said 'Well, i'm gonna see if i can get to the town' he said grinning slightly.

[Samuel Templeton]

Sam smiled a half smile at him. "If we can get passes maybe we can go together?" He suggested since going to town with someone was always more interesting than exploring alone.

He glanced at the car, then to Aaron.

"Want me to finish up so you're back in her good books?" He softly offered as he moved to start work again on his bike. The Harley was and had been from the start, perfectly clean so only his needing something to do had meant him fussing over it.