[She sits up a bit, lifting her eyes to glare at him a bit - not angry at him, exactly. Just, brimming a bit with misdirected, uncertain agitation.]

I never asked exactly what he did and he didn't tell me. I said I wanted them to leave me alone, and right after that, they did - they were still at school and everything.

Well, I'm not going back next year, and I asked him to take it off them because it was a stupid thing. It was stupid and selfish and something I should have dealt with in the first place, with my fists if I had to. And I'm not proud of myself for doing it. And he said he did, but... it took some arguing.