Vernon climbed onto his bed, even though he had spent all his resting time in this room it felt very odd returning after a week of absence. Dinner had been quiet as usual with loads of gossip about him around him.
Not all the boys on his usual table cared about him but they cared about Dev and Nevil, which luckily were his friends so they usually never went out of their way to say anything mean to him but also meant whenever an opportunity to be mean arose, they never ignored it.
Usually, they would stop at the boys' quarters while he would head on to the infirmary but today had been different and for a brief moment, he hated that it had been different. Only Dev and Nevil had known he was returning to the room that night and from the sounds of oohs and ahhs, they also had not told anyone
