LICD: BEGINNINGS #745 TITLE BOX In the title box, RAYNE comes home from school, can’t believing what just happened. RAYNE THE AUDACITY! RAYNE THE SHEER NERVE- DAD nods, RAYNE takes it for agreement. DAD You got assigned homework? RAYNE I KNOW, RIGHT? NEXT ROW HOME. In the morning, an exhausted, bedraggled RAYNE walks into the kitchen holding a stack of workbooks. RAYNE I did it. DAD Did what? RAYNE lays the homework in front of DAD. RAYNE My homework. DAD starts to go through it. RAYNE All of it. DAD looks at a few empty pages. RAYNE For the rest of the year. Stayed up all night. RAYNE collapses into a ball on the floor and is almost asleep, he doesn’t hear DAD. DAD Shows off an empty page. DAD At what point did you run out of lead in your pencil? RAYNE Now I’m free.