“Dad told me not to get in. You knew who I was. Mrs. Harris is not. Every day I had to guess what I could say.”
His voice was shaking.
“I used to love his class. Then I started to hate her.”
That broke something inside me.
“I used to love his class. Then I started to hate her.”
The secret Paul believed he would protect me had made Lily afraid to enter my classroom.
Paul sat down.
“I’m sorry, Lily.”
She looked away.
Daniel spoke quietly, “They shouldn’t have put her in the middle of all this.”
Paul looked at his brother.
“They shouldn’t have put her in the middle of all this.”
For once, he didn't argue.
“I know.” He looked at me. I thought if I first fixed things with Daniel, I could let you know when everything was stable.
“You can’t prepare reality before I see it.”
