Teacher's Dead

Yes, Mum, I’m all right.’ I groaned into the collar of her coat.

She stepped

I even started looking at myself in the mirror and asking the same question. Could I?

didn’t even know who he was, but that didn’t make me evil. I’d been alive for fifteen years and I’d never felt the need to kill someone because I didn’t have a dad.

. The media made a big deal out of the fact that both boys were accompanied only by their mothers

would see the whole thing happening again in my mind. When that happened I just told myself that this was the real world, and if this was the real world I should be prepared to see more acts of violence, more death, and more destruction.

I would be subjected to hours of heavy questioning in a dark room,

She’s small, but she’s strong, and when she put her arm around me and squeezed me she almost took my voice away. I could feel the relief in her voice

I will never forget the way Lionel put that knife into Mr Joseph.

I didn’t trust him either.

we were never close friends.