Me: "So,why are you out of school right now?"
Kid #1: "I got suspended, again."
Me: "What for this time?"
Kid #1: "I got into a fight with a kid and told him if he didn't shut up I'd cut his tongue and eyes out..."
Me: "What made you fight in the first place?"
Kid #1: "That guy always starts lies about me--then it gets around the whole school--"
Me: "Like what?"
Kid#1:"Like I threatened to kill someone..."
Me: "Did you?"
Kid #1: "Yeah,but they can't prove it..."
Me: "Would you actually do that? Actually kill someone, I mean?"
Kid #1: "Maybe...like if he really threatened me or my dogs or my family..."
Me: "Did he?"
Kid#1: "Sorta...I mean, I can't really explain it...he,like,just gets on my nerves...we used to be friends but then he started saying shit about me and turning people against me..."
Me: "How so? How did he turn people against you?"
Kid#1: "Just making them not want to be my friends...I don't know...shit like that."
Me: "So this guy stopped being your friend and got other people to stop being your friends and you felt threatened by that?"
Kid #1: "Sorta...I mean we used to do stuff together--like hang out in the woods--or cut down trees and make cool forts and stuff--or have bonfires--but then we got into trouble for breaking down stuff..."
Me:"What stuff did you break? Whose stuff? Why did you break it?"
Kid #1:" Just stuff--old stuff lying around...mostly in my yard...my parents stuff...We needed material--for our projects--for making forts and wrestling props and art stuff, like."
Me:"Did you ask permission? Usually it's a good idea to ask before you break apart stuff that doesn't belong to you, first..."
Kid#1:"What's the point? My parents will just say no..."
Me: "So you got into trouble with this other guy for breaking apart 'stuff' that belonged to your parents?"
Kid#1:"Sort of...I just couldn't hang out with him at my house anymore--or go to his house. Then he started getting pissed off and made up stories that I tried to kill him--which were totally untrue!"
Me:"Other kids believed him?"
Kid#1: "Well, kinda. Other kids heard me fooling around and I said like I wanted to cut this kid's tongue out..oh,and his eyes...for making up rumors about me...but, nobody knows I was only fooling around and they can't prove it, anyway.. he used to be my best friend!"
Me:"So that's why you got kicked out of school?"
Kid#1: "No,not really...I got kicked out because the Principal stopped our fight and heard me say I hoped the whole school would blow up with him in it..."
Me: "Your friend?"
Kid#1: "Not my friend, the Principal--and the whole school building just blow up! I hate that place!"
Me: "But I thoght you were mad at your friend--"
Kid#1: "I don't have friends, just acquaintences..."
Me:"What about this kid that used to be your 'best' friend--"
Kid#1: "The kid whose eyes I wanna gouge out? "
Me:"Yes, the kid whose tongue you wanted to cut, isn't he the one you are really angry with--for making up rumors about you ? Why did you want to blow up the Principal?"
Kid#1:" Cause HE stopped our fight..."
Me:"I'm confused about who you are angry with and why you wanted to blow up the entire school?"
Kid#1: "Pretty much I'm pissed at everybody... I guess...I just hate school..."
Me: "But why? You have to have a reason--"
Kid#1: "Why do I have to have a reason? My whole life's my reason! Nobody gets me...I don't really have friends...my parents are always working--and we still don't have food in the house half the time...my little brothers don't listen to me but I still have to watch them--and my little sisters, too--but how, when they won't listen, anyways? My big brother hits me; my Dad hits me; my Mom screams all the time--at everybody--and my dog's sick but we don't have vet money, so now, he might die. Nobody really cares...so, what's the reason? You tell me?? Pick one. Just pick one..."
Kid #1: "I got suspended, again."
Me: "What for this time?"
Kid #1: "I got into a fight with a kid and told him if he didn't shut up I'd cut his tongue and eyes out..."
Me: "What made you fight in the first place?"
Kid #1: "That guy always starts lies about me--then it gets around the whole school--"
Me: "Like what?"
Kid#1:"Like I threatened to kill someone..."
Me: "Did you?"
Kid #1: "Yeah,but they can't prove it..."
Me: "Would you actually do that? Actually kill someone, I mean?"
Kid #1: "Maybe...like if he really threatened me or my dogs or my family..."
Me: "Did he?"
Kid#1: "Sorta...I mean, I can't really explain it...he,like,just gets on my nerves...we used to be friends but then he started saying shit about me and turning people against me..."
Me: "How so? How did he turn people against you?"
Kid#1: "Just making them not want to be my friends...I don't know...shit like that."
Me: "So this guy stopped being your friend and got other people to stop being your friends and you felt threatened by that?"
Kid #1: "Sorta...I mean we used to do stuff together--like hang out in the woods--or cut down trees and make cool forts and stuff--or have bonfires--but then we got into trouble for breaking down stuff..."
Me:"What stuff did you break? Whose stuff? Why did you break it?"
Kid #1:" Just stuff--old stuff lying around...mostly in my yard...my parents stuff...We needed material--for our projects--for making forts and wrestling props and art stuff, like."
Me:"Did you ask permission? Usually it's a good idea to ask before you break apart stuff that doesn't belong to you, first..."
Kid#1:"What's the point? My parents will just say no..."
Me: "So you got into trouble with this other guy for breaking apart 'stuff' that belonged to your parents?"
Kid#1:"Sort of...I just couldn't hang out with him at my house anymore--or go to his house. Then he started getting pissed off and made up stories that I tried to kill him--which were totally untrue!"
Me:"Other kids believed him?"
Kid#1: "Well, kinda. Other kids heard me fooling around and I said like I wanted to cut this kid's tongue out..oh,and his eyes...for making up rumors about me...but, nobody knows I was only fooling around and they can't prove it, anyway.. he used to be my best friend!"
Me:"So that's why you got kicked out of school?"
Kid#1: "No,not really...I got kicked out because the Principal stopped our fight and heard me say I hoped the whole school would blow up with him in it..."
Me: "Your friend?"
Kid#1: "Not my friend, the Principal--and the whole school building just blow up! I hate that place!"
Me: "But I thoght you were mad at your friend--"
Kid#1: "I don't have friends, just acquaintences..."
Me:"What about this kid that used to be your 'best' friend--"
Kid#1: "The kid whose eyes I wanna gouge out? "
Me:"Yes, the kid whose tongue you wanted to cut, isn't he the one you are really angry with--for making up rumors about you ? Why did you want to blow up the Principal?"
Kid#1:" Cause HE stopped our fight..."
Me:"I'm confused about who you are angry with and why you wanted to blow up the entire school?"
Kid#1: "Pretty much I'm pissed at everybody... I guess...I just hate school..."
Me: "But why? You have to have a reason--"
Kid#1: "Why do I have to have a reason? My whole life's my reason! Nobody gets me...I don't really have friends...my parents are always working--and we still don't have food in the house half the time...my little brothers don't listen to me but I still have to watch them--and my little sisters, too--but how, when they won't listen, anyways? My big brother hits me; my Dad hits me; my Mom screams all the time--at everybody--and my dog's sick but we don't have vet money, so now, he might die. Nobody really cares...so, what's the reason? You tell me?? Pick one. Just pick one..."
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