B0160a5opy (A)
“comes out. His must be the parents in the urgent meeting with Como.“Just wait out there while I have a final word with your parents, L.J.,” calls the principal from inside the office. L.J. leaves the door open a crack and Miss Kazinsky doesn’t get up to close it – perhaps she is hoping to hear some juicy tidbits. Everyone knows that she is a flaming gossip, and Sienna says she couldn’t fill half the pages of Underground West Lake without this prized informant.L.J. slumps heavily into the chair ...right next to me. It creaks.“So, how did it go?” I ask.“I’m suspended for a week. Like that’s supposed to be a punishment.” L.J. shrugs.I don’t know what to say to that. Voices coming from the office intrude into the silence.“The boy is a little wild, sir, but I’ll lick him into shape. It comes from never having a stable, male authority figure in his life. He didn’t know his real father. His mother never really settled down, did you, Lila? And there has been a passing parade of men, only two of whom married her.MoreLess
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