I knew I’d get caught if I tried it – that man would be well and truly watching me. And so despite their threats, there was no way I’d go along with it. They beat me up. And they beat up the grade five kid. Hurt me quite badly, I don’t think he got as badly hurt but it was enough that his parents noticed when he got home. And all hell broke loose at school.
He didn’t know why he’d been beaten up – he didn’t know about the stealing. This kid had the impression that I’d been beaten up and then I’d told the kids from this other school to beat him up as well, and that was the version he told his parents and the school. I was supposed to keep an eye on this kid – and the impression he gave was that somehow I’d caused him to be bashed up.