A friend shouldn’t get his best friend in trouble and then let him take the rap.” “Are you saying that you should have been punished too, Billy?,” Mrs Wilkins asked with a little smile playing about her face. “Well … ummm … I don’t know … I guess what I’m saying is that it wasn’t fair for Johnny to take the heat when I was just as much at fault, if not more so.” “If I hear you correctly, Billy, I gather you might feel better about this if you were shared some of Johnny’s punishment.” “Gee, Mrs Wilkins … I’m not sure I would put it that way. I just feel badly that I didn’t speak up yesterday. It might have let Johnny off the hook.” “I can assure you, young man, Johnny is responsible for his own decisions regardless of what his friends do or say.

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