Chapter Forty-TwoThis is my transcript from first grade. My scores were perfect except for one lonely S in “participation and conduct.” S stands for “Satisfactory,” or for “my first-grade teacher is ‘Such’ a b***h for lowering that grade over a few harmless practical jokes.” How does Nero have this and why? Even my mom, a hoarder of sentimental junk, does not own my transcripts from before middle school. Puzzled, I close the transcript and pick another file at random. This is something my mom does have. It’s a picture from my middle-school graduation, where I pretended to be an innocent angel that I wasn’t. Again—why does Nero have this? This picture might be available to the general public from the school archives or something like that, so it’s not as weird for Nero to have as the

