Chapter 1437

Pearl could tell that her son was telling the truth from everything she had seen and heard. "So, you weren't fighting, you were actually helping out, right?" If Darius's story held up, she was ready to praise him. The principal confirmed, "Absolutely. Darius was just trying to help someone in distress." With nothing more to add, the discussion seemed over, but then one of the boys started crying. "Are you just going to let him off? He broke my tooth!" The boy struggled to speak clearly, his missing front tooth causing him to slur his words. "It's your own fault for picking on a girl. You got what you deserved!" Darius shook his fist at him, and the boy stopped talking, though tears kept rolling down his cheeks. Despite being only about ten or eleven, he had been bested by a seven-year-old Darius. Pearl felt proud of her son. Once everything was sorted out, Pearl didn't feel the need to speak further. To soothe the situation, she wrote out three checks and gave them to the chil