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My fingers land on a transcript of an interview with Sarah Reiss, the office secretary at Grotto High. If there was something to know about a student, Ms. Reiss was the one to ask. She knew every student’s name and schedule, who was dating whom and all the day-to-day dramas associated with high school life.
According to Ms. Reiss, Eve was called to the school office at around 10:30 a.m. on the twenty-second to take a phone call from her mother. Before Eve got to the office, Ms. Reiss said she saw Eve in the hallway talking to Nick Brady, stating that the two looked pretty cozy. After Eve talked to her mother, Ms. Reiss said that Eve abruptly left the building saying that she needed to go find her sister.
But it’s the last line of the report that takes my breath away. When asked if anyone else was seen with Eve as she left the building, Ms. Reiss gave one name. Shaun O’Keefe.
Therapy Transcript
Client Name: Nola Knox, 13 years
Therapist Name: Linda Gonzalez, LMHC, NCC
Date of Service: Feb. 6, 1996
L. Gonzalez: Good morning, Nola. How are you doing today? I’m glad that you decided to come back.
N. Knox: I didn’t have a choice. It was this or being sent to the detention center.
L. Gonzalez: Everyone who comes here expects something different. What do you want out of our time together?
N. Knox: Nothing. I just want to get it over with.
L. Gonzalez: Well, let’s look at why the court ordered you to attend these sessions. Maybe that will be a springboard for us. Okay?
N. Knox: Fine.
L. Gonzalez: You had an altercation with a young man. You pushed him into a glass trophy case.
N. Knox laughs
L. Gonzalez: You disagree?
N. Knox: No. That’s what happened.
L. Gonzalez: But you find something humorous in the situation?
N. Knox: Not funny. Inane.
L. Gonzalez: How so?
N. Knox: I find it inane that a thirteen-year-old girl can get in trouble for standing up to a big, sixteen-year-old asshole.
L. Gonzalez: You were standing up to the boy?
N. Knox: Yes. He’s a bully. He was being gross. He was talking about my sister. I didn’t like it.
L. Gonzalez: What did he say?
L. Gonzalez: You don’t want to talk about what he said?
N. Knox: No.
L. Gonzalez: Okay. You stood up to him for being a bully. He was bullying you?
N. Knox: No one bullies me.
L. Gonzalez: But he said something crude about your sister and you lashed out. That must have made you very angry.
L. Gonzalez: Something must have made you very angry to push that boy into the glass.
N. Knox: He deserved it. People get what they deserve.
