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but you like an audience
Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella"
self_composed
Bella arrives early to her next gym class, too. Delaney's not there yet, which is annoying, because he knows how to solve a puzzle.
Charlie knows a few things about Delaney and his family. The most interesting thing is this: Delaney appeared in the hospital with broken ribs, once. He did not do this crowing about how much fun it was to be stomped on/thrown down the stairs/whatever. He did this with no explanation at all. Charlie doesn't need victim cooperation to press charges for battery - but he does need someone to press charges against.
And no one at school saw a thing.
Audiences, indeed.
Charlie knows a few things about Delaney and his family. The most interesting thing is this: Delaney appeared in the hospital with broken ribs, once. He did not do this crowing about how much fun it was to be stomped on/thrown down the stairs/whatever. He did this with no explanation at all. Charlie doesn't need victim cooperation to press charges for battery - but he does need someone to press charges against.
And no one at school saw a thing.
Audiences, indeed.
Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella"
self_composed
Bella's smile turns into a thinner smirk. "When you get beat up at school, that's not a secret. If Dave Farber had broken your ribs and my father decided this was a crime he needed to prosecute, he could have gotten twenty people to tell him exactly who did it without any help from you at all. So it wasn't a student. Probably not a teacher either, especially since teachers beating up students isn't commonly a thing. You didn't arrive at the hospital in an ambulance, but as a passenger in a car your family owns. So you were not in the middle of nowhere when injured, and you were not unescorted - or you had access to a phone and you could get at it while you had your ribs broken, which is less likely. It's possible the driver did it, but you've had the same one since that time, and I'd expect an incident like that to cause staff turnover, wouldn't you? And you know what, I doubt your family makes a lot of family trips to places where you can get into fights. And your driver wouldn't say where you came from even when a cop demanded the information. Did someone ask the driver reaaaally nicely too? But I think it happened at home."
She pauses, and tilts her head, stretching her arms, looking more severe. "You know what sort of beating-up relationship is commonly a thing?"
She pauses, and tilts her head, stretching her arms, looking more severe. "You know what sort of beating-up relationship is commonly a thing?"
Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella"
self_composed
"Even if all you did was lie there I would wind up kicking myself in the nose or something embarrassing like that, and that would be if I wished to beat you up. Not all aversion to violence is self-preservation or concern for the wishes of the..." She mulls over word choice, decides there isn't a better term ready to hand. "Victim."