“Son, you either have courage or you don’t. You don’t.”
“How do you know that?”
“You ran away from Chuck at school. You said so yourself.”
“I ran away because he’s a bully twice my size.”
“If you had courage, you would have stood up to him.”
“Why? That would have been stupid.”
“Because it’s the right thing to do with a bully. You can stop him from being a bully.”
“How is that going to stop him? Because he’ll get kicked out of school after beating the crap out of me? He doesn’t care about that. He’d like it. I’d be doing him a favor.”
“What about your self-respect?”
“My self-respect is fine. It’s your respect I’m worried about. Do I need to come home missing some teeth to earn it?”
“What if Chuck is bullying a kid even smaller than you?”
“Well, Dad, now that you mention it, let me remind you. Chuck was bullying me. Whose job is it to look after me?”
“I’m an adult. I can’t come to your school and beat up a kid.”
“You can come to school with me and speak to the principal. You can come with me to Chuck’s house and speak to his dad.”
“That’s… I’m… I’m not much of a… Your mother might…”
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