Video. A Friendly School PSA.

[shoplifter]

 [The feed opens with a huffy looking Laura, sitting in front of the screen like it's a PSA announcement or some such — and judging from the glancing up at what must assuredly be a teacher, it's exactly that. Or something. She scowls at the camera again before looking down at the paper held in her dainty little hands that have totally never hurt anyone ever, no sir. She reads it blankly, and it's very clearly she's the worst podium speaker in the entire universe:]

I have agreed.... to read aloud, so that I will not be suspended for the week.

I would like to formally apologize for anyone I have ever stabbed, kicked, punched, or bitten... It was not my intention to hurt anyone and I will try my best from this point on to control my temper, both — in the complex and at school. [She wrinkles her nose, looks deadpan at the camera, and continues.] I am sorry to Tabitha for shoving her nose in the grass during recess. Even if it was because she was being unkind to another student, it does not give me the right to use... 'force'.

And I am sorry for using... Spanish expletives toward Jared, and hitting him in the throat with his own backpack. Even if he was being rude, it does not... excuse violence. [She looks so annoyed, save her.] From this point on, I will do my best to stay in school... for the whole school day. I will try not to leave past the wall.

[She puts the paper on the desk, calmly.]

... And I will not steal the chocolate milk from the cafeteria anymore.

[More gravely:]

But if Susan insults my accent ever again, I will shove her into the trash ca—


[huh the feed ended suddenly how about that






... she's in detention now]

Comments

[alchemyfreak]

What about Tabitha?

[Sounds like she had it coming, honestly.]

No one saw her picking on someone else? Or are they making her put out a public apology too?

[shoplifter]

She got detention; I don't think she's happy about that.

... Detention isn't that big of a punishment, though. It's just quiet.

[alchemyfreak]

That doesn't sound very fair.

[Life's not fair, but he's squinting at this school system.]

What was she doing to the other kid that you felt the need to use 'force' anyway?

[The way he says that word almost implies he's skeptical.]

[shoplifter]

She was making fun of him, because he was born with some sort of... problem, that made him look differently.

I don't like watching things like that.

[Sometimes you gotta whip some asses, when your temper flares.]

[alchemyfreak]

[Of course she wouldn't.]

If you ask me she deserved it.

[These are the responsible adults in your life, Laura.]

[shoplifter]

[She nods firmly.]

She learned not to do it anymore.

[Or else the wrath of Laura will be unleashed.]

[alchemyfreak]

Good. There's nothing wrong with sticking up for others, kid.

[He's awful.]