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I had a feeling about what had happened when I had a note froo see Ms Miller
As expected, when I sat down in her office she just looked atfor me to cry or otherwise understand just how disappointed she was, and then she started with, “I’ve had someone come to me to talk about you, Steven”
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“Tamara,” she corrected, and then quickly added, “I can’t tell you the details of other students’ visits with me, of course” Pathetic
“That girl was bothering“I—”
“And I can’t get involved in your interpersonal issues,” she interrupted That wording did stop ot there? “I want to be clear here, there’s been no coainst you, but I wanted to pull you in here because obviously you are treading on very thin ice just having conflict with a female student”
“My position’s the same with every woman, Ms Miller If she leaves me the fuck alone, I’ll leave her the fuck alone”
She shook her head “You know you can’t get aith being like that, Steven If she—if someone had decided they wanted to make an official cohteen years old; this is not soround joke any more What happens from here will follow you for the rest of your life”
I didn’t say anything to that, because how could I? They’d all already decided what they thought ofto turn around those opinions People took one look at a situation and drew their conclusions about as really going on, and they never looked back to see if they’d
But even worse than the people who condemned quickly andyou a favour for only partially conde you to start with
“I hope you appreciate I’ve stuck ain” There it was What I had been expecting the whole time
“Never asked you to do that,” I said, “but fine”
“Will you at least pro for trouble?” she continued, as if she’d gotten the grovelling response she’d been ai for “Let your friends work out their own personal issues The stakes are higher for you than for all of them”
“Whatever” She was right, but why should that rovelled? It had never been my fault
Probably she did take Tamara’s side in all of this That o end Even when it made no sense