The man who had been so arrogant before Sophia was now in a sorry state.
As the football team resorted to violence, the instructors arrived.
The teacher who arrived late said, "Stop what you're doing!"
He glanced at Claude and the football team, who were standing obediently by the side, and then at the boys who had been beaten so badly that they grimaced in pain.
He wanted to get angry, but when one of them was the school's pride, the football team, it wasn't as easy.
He asked Claude, "What happened? Did they provoke you?"
Claude said, "They pushed Sophia down."
The boy with his face bruised and swollen raised his voice and shouted, "She fell on her own! None of us pushed her!"
The sad and aggrieved look on his face was as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Claude rolled up his sleeves and pointed at him. "How dare you retort! Sophia has a baby in her belly. Why would she fall on her own for no reason?"
