‘I think it’s okay if Terrence gets called too, as long as you’re first.’

‘I understand.’

Over the following weeks I asked the other children what they thought.

Savannah liked the idea of more people coming to help.

Wyatt wanted to know whether Terrence could explain complicated science homework if I was busy.

Delilah asked whether adding him meant her school would change its records of who had always attended her events.

‘No,’ I told her.

‘It doesn’t change the past.’