PUZZLE PIECE 28
TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T
Bullies pick targets,
Vulnerable, gentle kids,
Stick together, friends,
Stop the bullies in their tracks,
Before the bullies beat us.
After the hospital A&E episode, Ilaria had become withdrawn and quiet. This was so unlike her. I tried to talk to her, but she just clammed up. I’d heard that she’d been taking sedatives, and this worried me. Luckily, she came out of the worst of it. Her mum persuaded her to stop taking the pills, and she’d listened.
I tried to discover more about the play, but no one could make any sense of it. Ilaria didn’t want to talk about it at all – no surprise there. Joselyn seemed distracted all the time. She’d taken to carrying her notebook around as if she was compiling a detective casebook. I knew what she was inve
