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“Yeah, he was interested even then” Now I’d gotten this far, I alht it all up for some other reason

But Mu that troubled her And given how sensitive she was to the whole issue, I probably had

“Tamara, is there a problem with Callie and this boy?”

“I honestly don’t know for sure,” I said “I orried because it all happened so suddenly, without her really talking to me about it, and you know I’ to keep an eye on her during breaks, and then this other guy froainst a wall—”

Muone all stiff and her eyes ide, the way I saw her whenever atched aa woman on TV

“Tamara, he assaulted you You need to report him to the police…” She shook her head at the posters on the back of h all sorts of tor to show for it Report him at school They’ll have to address your concerns there Suspend him, expel him It depends on what’s appropriate for whatever he did to you” She looked h the details with me Unless you want to”

Well I’d been scared by Steven, but I wouldn’t have called it ‘assault’ I didn’t get the feeling he’d been trying to hurt uaranteed to be all in on hted or I wasn’t taking the situation seriously enough And that was exactly what I orrying about with Callie, so ht idea on this

“I just don’t want to overreact, you know?” I said “I don’t want to make trouble for myself and anybody else involved if I don’t—”

Mu me, but I just bit my lip a little and shifted my eyes around so she wouldn’t see it “Ta trouble here Never let yourself be tricked into thinking you’re the one at fault This boy hurt you and it sounds like the whole group of the me”

I wasn’t sure how she could know that from the little I knew to tell her, but she was s, it le I hadn’t

“Okay,” I said “I’ll talk to the counsellor too into the situation with Callie too, or…”

“I think you need to be careful what you say where Callie is concerned,” Mum said, which was a bit of a surprise tofor herself in this sort of situation Maybe if she sees you standing up for yourself, she’ll be able to do the same in her oay”

I liked the idea that Imyself “Okay, well that settles it for me”

Mulad to help, and re you need to tell ets his dinner before he startsnoises”

Ms Miller sighed a little when she heard the name Steven Dillon “Let’s hear it, then”