Principal Thorne shut her office door and sat down at her oak desk.

She held her silver ballpoint pen between both thumbs and tapped its metal tip twice on a yellow legal pad.

“Base security logged his behavior during the assembly,” she said, looking at me across the desk.

“The command duty officer at Little Creek called five minutes ago.”

Kenneth stood at the office window, watching the blue Navy sedan turn left onto Shoreline Drive.

“If you file a formal Article 138 complaint for administrative harassment,” Principal Thorne said, “his command review will become a full court-martial.