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"Mr. Buckley? We need you to pick up Theo. There's been an... incident."
Twenty minutes later, Buck was in the principal's office, staring at a child holding crutches, another man who looked seconds from losing it, and his own son, who was beaming like he'd just won a medal.
"He hit someone," Ms. Smith said. "With a broom."
"A broom," Buck repeated.
"The broom," she corrected.
Theo puffed up.
"They were being mean to Chris. So I got the broom and-"
"You used a broom," Buck said slowly.
"It worked."
The man across the room coughed. It sounded suspiciously like a laugh.
Chris spoke up, voice small:
"He was really b-brave."
"Thank you! I was!"