Liam Carter

**Liam Carter** (Born January 4th) is the main protagonist of Slightly Above Average. He attends Alpine Middle School in Alpine Oregon along with his friends, such as Fred Roland, Alice Greenfield and April Hexley. He is a regular kid trying to live a regular life, but he is haunted by the bad reputation of his older brother, Luke Carter, to whom he rarely speaks. Liam is very afraid of anything scary and because of this he doesn't like Halloween.

### Storyline

#### Season 1

##### Episode 1: Pilot

Liam starts out season one excited and nervous about going into sixth grade at Alpine Middle School. One of the first things that happens to him as he enters the school is that he gets shoved into a trash can by an eighth grader. He then enters his first period class; English with Mrs. Harris. During this class he meets Alice Greenfield, a very smart girl who seems to have eaten a textbook for breakfast and Conner White, a jerk who is rude to everyone he meets. After class has been going for a while, Fred Roland walks into the classroom, very late. Fred sits next to Liam and as they try to have a conversation, Mrs. Harris yells at them to stop talking.

After English, Liam goes to History class with Mrs. Hexley. Mrs. Hexley doesn't seem to care about anything. She gives the class a form to sign and tells them if they don't sign it, they will get expelled. The next class Liam has is Computer Science with Mr. Tekin. In this class, Mr. Tekin tells the students to just play Minecraft because he doesn't want (or know how) to actually teach the class about computer science. Liam then has lunch, where he and Fred decide to sit next to Alice, who is sitting all alone at one of the only tables left. They all talk for a bit and then it is time for PE. Mr. Foreman is the PE teacher and he means business. He gets mad at the class for not saying "Good Afternoon Mr. Foreman" and when they finally do, they end up saying "Mr. Forehead" instead. Conner is the ringleader of this prank. The next period Liam has is Math. Mrs. Baker, the math teacher, is the most boring teacher ever. She will never stop teaching. Liam sleeps through all of her class and she doesn't even wake him up. After math, Liam has to go to Science. In that class, the teacher, Mrs. Hudson, gives all the students a few elements to play around with and see what they do. During this experiment, Liam accidentally mixes bleach with ammonia he found on a shelf. This causes a huge explosion, the class has to evacuate the room. Liam gets sent to the principal's office.

Liam arrives at the principal's office where Principal Mike greets him unenthusiastically. Principal Mike forces Liam to confess to the thing he already knows Liam did. He also gets mad at Liam when he realizes that Liam's older brother is Luke Carter, a notorious troublemaker. After reflecting upon his day outside of the school, Liam realizes that he forgot to go to art class. So he runs inside.

##### Episode 2: Detention

The second episode starts with Liam telling Alice about his visit with principal Mike. Then Alice notices a sign on the wall announcing that the student council election is on Friday. Liam watches Alice and Conner both sign up to run for sixth grade president. Liam tells Alice that she made a big mistake by getting Conner excited about the election because Conner is the most popular kid in the school and he will most likely win. Alice doesn't believe him. This makes Liam mad because he is positive that Conner will win.

While he's in English class, Fred runs into the classroom and sits down next to Liam and Alice. Alice tells Fred about how she's running for president and Fred gets very excited and yells, causing him to get detention. Liam is annoyed that Fred didn't just pretend he was excited about the lesson. After English, Liam is talking to Fred in the hall. He tells Fred it's not that bad that he got detention and Fred says he's happy he got detention because he wants to make friends.

In History, Liam remembers that he forgot to get his paper signed. Luckily, nobody gets expelled. In Computer Science, they continue playing Minecraft. After that, Liam and Alice say goodbye to Fred as he goes off to detention. When Fred returns from detention, he tells Liam that he left the room just because he felt like it. Liam is amazed until Fred tells him that he has a week of detention. Fred also tells Liam about April Hexley, the daughter of Mrs. Hexley who Fred met in Detention. April then waves to Fred and Liam learns what she looks like.

Alice then shows Liam and Fred her campaign poster ideas. Liam is amazed by them but he thinks some of them are a bit too patriotic. The next class is PE. During that class, Alice brainstorms different slogan ideas with Liam who thinks that they're all kinda a stretch. Alice continues to brainstorm slogan and poster ideas through Math class. Liam thinks she's going a bit over the top with all her ideas.

In Science, they see that April is in their class so they decided to invite her to their lab table. The final class is art, where Liam paints a spaceship landing on Mars.

##### Episode 3: Election Day

This episode starts with Liam helping Alice put up posters for her campaign to be sixth grade president. Conner comes over and makes fun of how Alice's posters are much smaller than his giant posters. Liam insults Conner, saying that his giant posters are just compensating for his tiny brain. Alice tells Liam they should just go and Conner makes fun of Liam, saying he has a girlfriend and she does whatever he says. Liam says she's not his girlfriend and they walk away.

Later, Liam and Alice are still putting up posters. Liam comments on how there are a lot of posters, Alice tells him they're for all the students running for student council, not just the sixth grade president. Alice mentions that a kid named Alan is running for sixth grade vice president unopposed and Liam feels bad for him because he doesn't know what unopposed means. Fred runs over to Liam and Alice, wearing a bunch of "Vote White" merch that Conner gave him. Fred tells them to vote for Conner, causing Alice to get mad because Fred said he would vote for her. Alice throws away all of Fred's merch. April and some other people also have Conner's merch. Liam says he warned Alice about this but she didn't listen.

Alice needs ideas for her campaign that would make a lot of people vote for her. Liam suggests being negative about Conner instead of positive about her. Alice reluctantly agrees. Liam and Fred try to think of insults about Conner but they're not very good at it. They go to April for help. She comes up with a very mean and very long insult about Conner. Everyone loves it but Alice is still unsure. They put up 14 giant insult posters around the school.

Principal Mike announces that it is time for the speeches and then the election, Liam goes into the auditorium. All the older kids give their speeches, then it's Conner's turn. Conner gives a speech that he obviously didn't write, it's way to advanced. Conner also promises a bunch of things that he can't give everyone, like seven ply toilet paper. Everyone claps for him. Alice then gives her speech and gives the honest truth. The only people that cheer for her are Liam and Fred. April is asleep. After the votes have been counted, Conner wins. Liam is sad and so is Alice, Fred and April. But Liam did warn her that elections are just popularity contests.