I want you to tell him that if you ever write this down.

“It’s that he’d seen me.

For like a year, probably, he’d been watching, and he knew about the towel and he knew about the nurse and he knew which boys.

And when you find out somebody has been watching you fail at something you thought you were hiding, you can’t just carry on sitting next to them in science.

“I needed nine weeks to get used to being a person who’d been seen.”

And then she said: “Also, Mrs.