““here? How had he managed to bring Mrs. Kent here so quickly? It didn’t make any... Oh, but it did. Mr. Thomas knew that the students would act up in detention. This had been Mr. Thomas’s plan all along. Sabotaging my detention class. He had probably bribed Chad to mess it all up. I didn’t stand a chance. In a weird way, that made me feel better. Now I needed to make a decision. Did I go back inside the room, risk my life, but save Dad’s job? Or did I wait out here, looking like a failure of a teacher, but then use the fearsome Mrs. Kent and her piercing gaze to help me calm the students down?””
