FollowLink to Pts. 1 and 2 Charlie was sitting in the school office when his mother arrived. She took one look at his puffy, just-beginning-to-swell eye and cheek and snapped, “What have you done?” “I got in a fight,” Charlie mumbled. “A fight,” she said, shaking her head. “We send you to this school to …
Link to Pt. 1 Charlie spent the rest of the day trying to stay out of Brad and Garrett’s sight. Or, when he couldn’t avoid them, ensuring that an adult was nearby. He had one close call and that was while waiting to be picked up. The teacher overseeing the line had stepped inside with …
Charlie was spending a week with his grandparents while his mom and dad went on another one of their “trips”. They did this a lot, never taking Charlie with them because the trips were, as they told always told him, “boring, old work trips”. He knew better though. Oh, that story had worked well enough …