So tonight I’m afraid you’re to stay with us, and that is not an option, it is what we’ve already decided is to happen.”
Ben didn’t respond, he didn’t want to share a room with his teachers, but at the same time he didn’t want to go back into a room with Richard and his gang. Although Mr Allen had talked to the group of students, and made it very clear that teasing Ben (or indeed anybody else) was not going to be tolerated, the teachers could not be there all of the time, and Ben knew they wouldn’t leave him alone just because they had been told to. But on the other hand, Ben also knew that sharing a room with his teachers, and not facing his peers, could quite easily make things worse.