America 1982

Lincoln High School, where Tommy Hawke attended, was a public high school established by the Rhode Island state government during the so-called baby boom period in the 1960s. It shares the name of Lincoln, the greatest president of the United States, with thousands of schools across the United States, but obviously, Warwick City Lincoln Public High School is one of those rubbish schools worthy of being named by the president.

Although the ranking is garbage, the school's physical facilities are not bad. On the contrary, they seem to have everything. It covers an area of ​​70 acres, has a gymnasium, swimming pool and even a campus theater. The school guides and encourages students to establish drama, art, chorus There are various interest groups such as group, photography, cheerleading, guitar, school newspaper, robotics club, moot court and even Dungeons and Dragons club.

The sports category includes baseball, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, football, softball, swimming, volleyball and even American wrestling. Last year, a table tennis team was established, but the results were a bit poor. The best sports results were in the state Quarterfinals of high school competition.

The original intention of the school to encourage the diverse development of students is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. More than 20 years after the establishment of the entire high school, the famous alumni wall in the honor exhibition room is still blank.

The school has no famous alumni, which is a symbol of a garbage school. In the more than 20 years since Lincoln High School was founded, dozens of clubs and more than 10,000 graduates have not produced even one memorable alumni. According to the speculation of the school newspaper this year, the most famous school in the near future is Famous alumni who may appear on the wall will probably be in three years.

That was an ice hockey student who graduated last year and was admitted to Providence College. If he performs as well as always and has no injuries, he should be able to participate in the ice hockey league draft after graduating from college, and he will probably be selected in the first round. Selected, and by then, Lincoln High might be able to put his picture on the wall to brag about.

The four grades in the school combined have a total of more than 500 students. Tommy Hawke is in the eleventh grade. According to his own calculations, if he persists for two days at most, he should have completed the credits required for graduation. By then Then you no longer have to waste time on some ineffective courses every day.

As soon as Tommy parked his bike in the parking lot, two high school friends came over and said hello: "Hey, Tommy!"

"Hey, Dennis, hey, Pam!" Tommy Hawke greeted the two of them, carrying a shoulder bag with lunch.

Lincoln High School does not have the concept of class, only the concept of grade, and even the concept of grade is very weak, so the concept in China that students are always classmates after entering school does not appear here.

Maybe in the last chemistry experiment class, you were surrounded by a group of classmates, and in the next drama performance class, there may be another group of people. The advantage of this is that the scope of communication in the school will be very wide. After all, if you are often in different classrooms If you meet the same classmate, it probably means that everyone has the same interests and it is easier to become friends.

Dennis and Pam were friends of Tommy Hawke, or in other words, they were high school besties who had the same resemblance to the trashy Tommy who had not been reborn before.

"Thanks to your answer, Pam and I got an A in our math homework last week. This is for you." Dennis handed Tommy a Gatorade: "Thanks a lot, brother, you know, I'm still here for you." You prepared a separate thank-you gift, originally you wanted to reward yourself and Pam, but your plan changed, and now, it's yours."

As he spoke, Dennis lowered his voice, took out a black card from his pocket and said as if he was offering a treasure: "Heaven, a day card for the Paradise Club."

Tommy didn't answer: "Man, you know I'm not interested in these lately."

Club Paradise is a strip club in Providence, a dream destination for countless high school boys. In order to get in and see the world, they have come up with countless ways.

The day pass is an unlimited ticket to the club for the same day, priced at fifteen dollars. Purchasing it allows the holder to spend unlimited time in the club for as long as they want.

"What? Brother, what's wrong with your mind? This thing costs fifteen dollars. It's a day pass that allows you to enter and exit the club at will for today. You can have a great time in it! It's just like its name, it's Heaven!" When Dennis heard that Tommy was not interested, he circled his temple twice with his fingers: "No man would be interested in this thing, unless you are a damn faggot."

"I'm not gay, but for me now, heaven is best a university." Tommy Hawke said with a smile.

Dennis looked around, carefully put the black card into Tommy's hand, and asked righteously: "If I hadn't found the most important life goal before graduation, I had to achieve it today, and you let me get my homework. A, I won’t give it to you, go and see it. You have completely changed in the past two months. Where is the Tommy who used to exchange magazine ideas with us all day long? Brother, you have fallen! You are looking for Go back to your original self and think about this question clearly: why did you grow up? Is it for the damn university? No! It’s for the beautiful girls!"

Pam thoughtfully reminded: "Remember to tell the white security guard the secret code and ignore the black security guard. If the secret code is correct, he will not check your ID card. When he asks you if you are an adult, what you have to do is not to give He IDs, but says the code word, Hill Street Blues, and he'll let you in."

"OK, OK, thank you, I'll go check it out." Tommy took it, shook it, and walked towards the teaching building with the two of them, smiling as they walked: "So, I didn't come to school yesterday, what's wrong? News?"

"Of course, Pam and I spent five hours yesterday and accomplished something big. Man, the highlight moment for Pam and I is about to come!" Dennis, who had a porcupine haircut, opened the locker in the corridor and threw his schoolbag in. , said in a mysterious and low voice.

"That's right, it will definitely be recorded as a major event in the school's history, Tommy." Pam whispered beside her with a somewhat excited face.

This made Tommy interested. He knew the two best friends. Dennis liked to exaggerate, but Pam was a typical homebody who rarely spoke freely.

This guy is a bit thin, has disheveled hair, wears myopia glasses as thick as a dictionary, and is taciturn. Most of the time, Dennis or Tommy act as his spokesperson. Looking at his appearance, he looks like the kind of person who is good at studying. A genius who is not sociable, but in fact, this guy is very capable, but he is an out-and-out scumbag. Now in eleventh grade and seventh grade writing questions are very difficult for him. His plans for the future I plan to go to a community college to study cooking and become a chef, because then I will be able to more easily strike up conversations with pretty waitresses.

To be honest, Tommy had been worried that if the kitchen temperature caused the lenses to fog up, Pam, a guy who was blind without his glasses, would appear on the local news for poisoning or manslaughter.

"What did you two do?" Tommy Hawke asked Pam.

Pam looked at Dennis, who put his index finger up to his lips and made a shushing gesture, indicating to Pam to keep Tommy a secret for the time being, and he said:

"The man of the year at Lincoln High School must be me, Tommy. Anyway, for the psychology distance education course in the third period, you must..."

But before Dennis could finish speaking, a male voice sounded not far away: "Tommy Hawke, come here."

Tommy turned around, and Ronnie Williams, the teacher at Lincoln High School who was responsible for providing college screening guidance, was holding a cup of coffee, sticking his head out of his office and saying hello to Tommy Hawke.

"See you in the third period." Dennis patted Tommy on the shoulder, then he and Pam said hello to Ronnie Williams and left quickly.

"Good morning, Mr. Williams." When Tommy Hawke walked into Ronnie Williams' office, he discovered that there was another woman present in the office.

With medium-length light blond hair, a black suit and skirt, she is at most twenty-five or six years old, and with the appearance of a female teacher that perfectly fits the fantasies of all male high school students, it is undeniable that she looks so good on the current American dating show "My One" The host of "She" often said: "This is an absolute 3S-level beauty."

At this time, the 3S beauty was smiling and looking at Tommy Hawke who was called in by Ronnie.

"Let me introduce Otilia Farrell, the new guidance counselor at Lincoln High School." Ronnie took a sip of coffee and said seriously to Tommy Hawke: "I'm sorry, Tommy... I didn't I’ll help you again, but there’s a problem with my work. I’m sorry…”

Seeing Ronnie Williams' unemployed expression of frustration, Tommy Hawke was stunned for a moment, then opened his hand and said understandingly: "Oh, Mr. Williams, you have worked at this school for seventeen years. , I mean maybe the principal made a rash move..."

"I'm going to start a new job in the Office of Student Safety and Health of the state government! Boy!" Ronnie saw Tommy's regretful expression, then his face changed, and he said loudly and excitedly: "It's only a five-minute walk from the stadium, and I don't have to anymore. Worry about being stuck in traffic and missing the Pilgrims game!”

"Congratulations, Mr. Williams." Tommy stared blankly at Ronnie for a few seconds, and then congratulated sincerely: "What good news."

"So, in the future, Miss Otilia Farrell will take over your consultation on university admissions, and the guidance of some school clubs will also be taken over by Miss Farrell." Ronnie Williams teased After finishing Tommy, he turned to the new instructor Otilia and introduced: "Tommy Hawke, this guy is the only good young man in this school who has taken AP6 courses at the same time in the past three years! Three weeks later, all the students in the school , you will know how powerful he is.”

The three weeks he mentioned refers to the time for the AP course exam.

"Hello, Miss Farrell." Tommy greeted the other party politely.

"Hello, classmate Tommy Hawke." Otilia Farrell said with a surprised smile: "Sorry, I didn't mean to discriminate against you, but I'm not sure what Ronnie meant by that sentence. Xiu Is it very rare to take six AP courses at Warwick Lincoln High School? If I remember correctly, when I was studying at Andover Phillips High School, there were thirty-four college preparatory AP courses, and most of my classmates chose from them. Five or six courses are compulsory, and seven or eight courses are also common.”

"No, miss, it's not that I can only take six AP courses, but because of the lack of educational resources, our school can only provide up to six AP courses." Tommy Hawke said to a student who said he came from a top private high school in the United States. Ottilia Farrell smiled bitterly and said:

"This is not my limit, but the limit of educational resources that American education can provide to poor high school students who only deserve to attend public schools."

It feels like there are one or two more readers. It feels really good. Thank you all for reading this story. In fact, it is a bit lengthy and may not enter the film and television entertainment plot so quickly~