I went to meet Lucy and clarify some news with her. I had been trying to call Father for days, but the phone has kept going to the message bank. We hadn’t heard from him this week. The last letter we had was over two weeks ago. As we walked towards our dorm, two guys were harassing and bullying the same Asian kid we witnessed before. The kid was clearly beside himself with being victimised, weeping, and begging for them to stop.
‘Oi!’ I screamed.
The two guys threw him to the ground and ran off. I was sure one was Mark, who had slowly recovered from his injured jaw. It wasn’t broken, just smashed up a bit, but he did lose a tooth. The altercation was about fifty metres away, so I wasn’t sure who the other guy was. As I began to walk toward the kid, he dragged himself off the ground and r
