Part Three

Thursday, November 18

What would you do?

If I tell on my friends, then I won’t go to prison, but how could I live with myself? Your friends are all you have, especially when your family has let you down. They don’t lecture you or judge you or ground you or make you feel bad like your parents or teachers do. They’re your escape from all that. If you don’t have friends, then you don’t have any escape. But if I don’t tell, then maybe I will go to prison, another place without escape. If none of us tells, maybe we’ll all go free; if one of us tells, then that one goes free and the others stay behind bars. I don’t know what Brody is saying, what Aaron is saying. I don’t know what they’re going to do, so how can I know what to do? What would you do?