"You'd think I'd be hard to ignore, but a lot of the teachers seem to manage just fine." Or maybe they were just tired of him, but it wasn't as if he didn't have to listen to them brattle on, so he felt he suffered more than them on the whole.

What was intriguing was that Harvey wanted him to come along. Acted concerned even. One of the many intriguing aspects here, not nearly as important as the mystery of how he got here, but it did reveal that perhaps Harvey's white knight persona wasn't just an act. Intriguing.

He put his hands into his pocket and started walking. "Where do you live? I can walk you. Seems as if I know where I'm going better than you do." Given Harvey didn't even seem to know where he ended up. "So, how often have you gotten abducted by aliens?"