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Tim awoke to his alarm. It was the same old default Iphone one that usually made him want to throw his phone across the room but it was the only one that would actually wake him up.
Tim picked up his phone turning off the alarm and looking at the time. 6:00 am. He opened it and took a look at his schedule one more time before sliding out of bed and getting dressed. He walked down to the kitchen, Damian was already sitting in his uniform eating cereal presumably made by Dick who was frantically running around the manor in search of something.
Tim put a piece of bread in the toaster and poured himself a cup of the bottle of iced coffee he had gotten at the grocery store the day before. He leaned on the island looking at the last day of summer posts all his friends had made on instagram.
Dick rushed into the kitchen still in his pajamas “Timmy could you please take Dami to school for me? Thank you.” Dick said not giving him enough time to reply before the older man was out the door.
“Wonder how long it will take for him to realize he’s still in pajamas.” Tim commented.
“Tt. He will realize, he not as incompetent as you, Drake” Damian snapped.
“You know you’re welcome to walk the 5 miles to school” Tim threatened making the younger boy quiet.
“That’s what I thought” Tim mumbled. He grabbed the toast sticking it in his mouth so he could grab his bag. “C’mon brat, don’t wanna be late on your first day”
“Tim Drake” a voice in the hallway came.
“Ives” Tim replied as Ives started walking besides him in the hallway. “How was your summer?” Tim asked
“How was MY summer?! How was YOUR summer!” Ives exclaims “I mean first you disappear for like over a month then you come back and your CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, I mean it was only for a little but still!”
Tim laughs awkwardly “Uh, yeah B needed some time off so I offered to run WE for a little”
“Well that explains that but what happened where’d you go?”
“That’s a secret” Tim said winking as they walked into their first period class.
“I can’t believe you left me with Bernard all summer, like the girls are fine but Bernard’s your boyfriend” Ives groaned.
“You wound me Sebastian” Bernard said slipping into the seat behind Tim.
Ives jumped and put a hand over his heart. “Warn a guy, and that’s Ives for you sir” Ives turned back to face the front pouting.
“Did ‘ya hear? Mr. Browning was fired, there’s a new guy” Bernard said lowering his voice.
“Good riddance, that guy was a creep” Annie said as her and the two other girls in their friend group sat down around them.
The six of them began talking about their summers when the bell rang. The classroom grew quieter and the new teacher turned from the board where he had written his name : Mr. Carter.
Mr. Carter looked to be in his mid forty’s. He had dark brown hair and eyes and a short beard. Although he did look slight younger than mid forty’s, more like late thirties to early forty’s based on his style and the way he held himself Tim ultimately decided ha had to have been in his forty’s.
“Hello class and welcome to AP world history, before we start I’ll take attendance, please tell me if you prefer an nickname or something so I’m calling you the right thing” Mr. Carter announced picking up a clipboard and walking in-front of his desk.
The rest of the class resumed their quiet conversations as he went through the list occasionally stopping to say ‘here’ until he got to Tim’s name.
“Timothy Drake” Mr Carter read looking up.
“Here, and it’s just Tim” Tim said turning back to the front.
Mr. Carter’s eyes locked on Tim. He stared at Tim for almost a minute. The class went silent waiting for him to continue.
“Uh, here?” Tim repeated.
Mr. Carter squeezed his eyes “Right, sorry” he looked back and wrote something on the paper before continuing.
“Well, that was weird” Bernard whispered.
“Yeah” Tim agreed
The rest of the class continued normally, they went over the syllabus and Mr. Carter told them about a field trip that they would have the chance to go on halfway through the year. Mr. Carter seemed normal enough but his eyes seemed to keep drifting over to Tim.
When the bell rang and everyone grabbed their bags to head to their next class Mr. Carter spoke up.
“Mr. Drake would you mind staying back for a moment” He said.
Tim looked at his friends not wanting to be late.
“Don’t worry I’ll write you a pass” Mr. Carter promised, and Tim warily agreed.
Once the class was empty Mr. Carter spoke. “I’m surprised you came back to school. Your gig at Wayne Enterprises seemed pretty nice”
“Yeah, Bruce just needed a break and since eventually I’ll be running the business I figured I’d you know check it out” Tim said.
They fell into an awkward silence until the bell rang. Mr. Carter quickly wrote a pass and handed it to Tim. “I’m excited to have you in my class Tim.”
“Thank you” Tim said and turned to leave. He hear Mr. Carter murmur something bearly audible. “Sorry?”
“Oh, Bye Tim” Mr. Carter spoke louder.
That’s weird Tim though walking out of the classroom I could’ve sworn he said Christian.