Roxanne was surprised by her son’s words. She knew they had always been very sensible and had always taken good care of Estella. However, what she didn’t expect was that they had been thinking about this even more than she did. Benny chimed in sweetly, “Mommy, please talk to Mr. Farwell about this. We’re worried that Essie might get bullied, and we won’t be there to protect her.” Roxanne felt her chest tighten at the mention of Estella being bullied. She recalled the incident when Estella had been bullied by her cla*smates when Archie and Benny first entered the cla*sroom. Back then, the boys had stepped forward to protect Estella and helped her to smoothen things over with her cla*smates. However, now that Estella was in a new kindergarten, she no longer had any playmates she was

