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Alex was only fourteen but he knew what Mr Blunt and Mrs Jones were. He'd seen them at every school. The bully and the sidekick. Blunt sat across the table from him with the smirk of power on his face waiting for Alex's capitulation.
'What do I do Ian?' Alex mentally asked his uncle.
Ian's reply was a memory of dealing with a cut and bruised Alex after a fight at school.
'Well done,' Ian had said. 'You stand up to bullies. You don't give in.'
Alex smiled, he knew the answer.
'No,' he told Blunt. 'I won't do it.'