Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

Author:Anne Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Law & Crime, Emotions & Feelings, Social Issues, Violence
ISBN: 9780152066383
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

Her mum had to see Mrs Nettles. She had to wait in Mrs Livingstone’s office while the head spoke to her. She sat at the same tiny desk that she’d written at just an hour or so before. Mrs Livingstone was still there but she didn’t look or smile at her. After a while her mum came out of the head teacher’s office, her face in a pout.

“Come on,” she said quietly, glancing over at Jennifer.

She hadn’t dressed up. She was wearing some old jogging trousers that Jennifer had seen lying across the banisters that morning. Her hair was loose with some strands hanging over her eyes. She was round-shouldered and looked fed up. Jennifer wondered whether she would tell her off, shout at her, send her to her room. She knew she wouldn’t though. Her mum hardly ever told her off about anything.

At home she sat in the living room watching daytime television. At a little after four there was a knock on the front door. When she opened it she found Michelle, on her own, carrying the school bag she had left behind. For a second she looked awkward and then, as though nothing had happened, she walked into Jennifer’s house and started to speak.

“Sonia’s fine, just a bruise on her head. You should have seen her! Mrs Nettles put her in the back seat of her car to take her to the surgery! She was looking all around as though she was the queen being driven by a chauffeur! She had it coming really, she’s got such a gob on her. I never meant to say a word to her about Lucy. She just sort of wheedles things out of you, before you even know you’ve said it. I don’t like her. Specially now. Now everyone’s feeling sorry for her!”

“Hello, Michelle,” her mum said, passing through the hallway.

“Hi, Mrs Jones,” Michelle said, and then without so much as a breath she carried on, “What about you! What did Mrs Nettles do? Has she expelled you?”

Jennifer shook her head.

“I’m suspended for five days and then there has to be a meeting between me and Sonia and I’ve got to write a letter. . . You know.”

“Look on the bright side! Five days off school!”

Jennifer nodded. There was a bright side. They were friends again.

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