PETER
Brainy but bumbling high school senior barely able to distinguish fantasy from reality. He lives with his uncle Rick. Both of his parents died , one after the other, when he was just starting high school. Rick wishes that Peter would work with him at his used car business and has tried repeatedly to encourage him to do so, but Peter has shown no interest, not even in the garage, where he would-- Rick firmly believed-- excel if he just gave it half a chance. Instead, nervous and distracted, with a penchant for tinkering, he started spending his afternoons hanging out with Jerry a few years back for the putative reason of helping Jerry get his hardware business off the ground and thereby perhaps secure for himself some future employment. A more exact reason for his spending his time so, however, would be that in Jerry Peter has found a soul mate, and that by spending time in Jerry’s company Peter hopes to thereby learn more about himself and his own future.Shy and introverted, Peter has a great deal of trouble interacting with his peers. Probably the only one at school that actually considers Peter a friend is Burghardt.