布拉德:我和我的终身伙伴都憎恨学校,我迫不及待地盼望着放学。不再有作业,不再有课本,再不用看老师的臭脸色。
Brad: My name is Bradley Cohen. But when I was a kid, people called me by lots of names, my brother, Jeff, called me Dr. Bobo. My mom called me honey. And the kinds at school? Well, they called me everything from spaz to freak. I didn't have many friends actually. But I did have a constant companion, I can barely remember a time when it wasn't there. Now sometimes, it wasn't a problem for me. Other times, it was.
Boy: Drop what? Drop books?
Little Brad: Stop it.
Boy: Are you scared, Brad? What's wrong?
Little Brad: Leave me alone.
Boys: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Teacher A : What is going on?
Boy: Come on, bring it on!
Teacher A : Stop! Stop that fighting right now! Get back to class! Stop that nonsense. You are in big trouble, mister.
Teacher B: The girl fell in the mud and got dirty.
Brad: One thing my Constant Companion and I agreed on was that we hated school. I couldn't wait until I got out. No more homework, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. My companion first showed up when I was six, but it was years before it had a name. Now the shrinks said I was just hyper, I made funny noises and acted weird to draw attention to myself. I was just a phase: I'd grow out of it and be "normal"...like everybody else. Through it all, my constant companion stuck with me. Now, to my friends, I'm just regular, old Brad. The guy who likes baseball, and who loves cheesy 80s music, which they think is much weirder than the noises I make.