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ow broken as the others in her year clustered
round her, while a teacher, Miss Tilley, told
everyone to let her through.
It didn’t take long before Mr Mulley, the PE
teacher, and Mrs Acton, the assistant principal,
carried the stretcher out to where Kate was now
sitting up, head between her knees. They told her
to lie down and two of the boys in her year took
one end of the stretcher, while Mr Mulley, with
smooth tanned muscles from years of surfing,
hoisted the other end, and they carried her
towards the sick bay.
As I watched, I saw my brother Joe in the line
that Kate had been standing in. He was white,
eyes round and dark against the paleness of his
skin. ‘Are you all right?’ I wanted to ask him,
worried that he, too, might collapse onto the
asphalt, but we were all being told to get back
into line, everyone, this instant.
‘This is a shock to all of us,’ Mr Castle said,
and I was surprised that even he seemed upset
because he was not a man to show emotion. ‘The
police will be visiting the school today and have
requested our cooperation.’
Again, there was a rush of whispers, a flurry
of words hastily hissed from person to person.
Why the police, we all wanted to know, and we
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