Imagine an interaction between Danny and Courtney

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“Courtney, will you behave yourself?” Danny snapped as the fifth wad of paper that day hit his turned back. Teaching could be a real challenge, and Courtney seemed to make it her goal to be the biggest challenge of all.

“I don’t know, will I?” Courtney asked smugly, folding her arms. Danny rolled his eyes, sighing.

“Careful, Courtney!” cried another girl sitting next to her, pigtails wrapped in pink ribbons. She was one of the quieter ones, Danny noted, and he couldn’t quite remember her name yet. One of the many struggles of being a new teacher, he supposed. “I hear he killed someone!”

Courtney’s eyes lit up at that. “Did you really?” she asked enthusiastically.

Slumping against the wall, Danny quietly broke. “Courtney,” he began softly, “could you come outside for a moment?” Taken aback by his grave seriousness, Courtney fell silent, following him into the hallway. The students began to murmur at this, theorizing increasingly macabre possibilities.

Danny closed the door slowly, barely making a click. He blinked a few times, rubbing his eyes. “Courtney, look,” he told her softly, taking deep breaths to hold his shattered self together, “being a new teacher is hard, and…” he trailed off, leaving his deeper issues unspoken.

Nodding at this, Coutney replicated Danny’s sombre tones and told him “I understand.” And, with a slight smile, she added, “I’m a disruptive influence, not a cruel one.”

Danny chuckled, and the two walked back into the classroom, greeting a room of children full of awe and fear. Courtney winked at him as he took his place at the front of the room, a silent promise to not share his unsaid secrets. And from that day on, neither Courtney Woods nor any other student misbehaved in Danny Pink’s classroom again.

Well, at least not when he was looking.