He’s missed his economics test, and his English class, and lunch. Avery thinks he’ll miss the rest of his classes, too, and maybe dinner as well. He’s been sitting on the bench outside of the monsignor’s office for so long now. He suspects they might never let him move again.
The boys Jacob fought were freshmen, friends of Mike’s. Students milled around the halls until the ambulance came. After the EMTs loaded the boys onto stretchers and wheeled them away, the nuns threatened suspension for anyone lingering at the scene. They called it that, the scene, like it was the spot of a heinous crime. Avery is surprised no one’s broken out the yellow police tape yet.
Avery had to call his parents. He still hears the shock in his mother’s voice when he told her she needed to come to the school. “
