Friendship and trust
Beth wants to be friends with Lauren, but Lauren misses a meeting and uses Beth as an excuse for where she is staying.
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Simon Packham - Author
This is a school friendship story that turns into a dilemma: Beth learns of Lauren’s affair with their drama teacher and decides to act. The outline signals serious consequences but does not reveal what Beth does or what follows.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a school friendship story that turns into a dilemma: Beth learns of Lauren’s affair with their drama teacher and decides to act. The outline signals serious consequences but does not reveal what Beth does or what follows.
Beth wants to be friends with Lauren, but Lauren misses a meeting and uses Beth as an excuse for where she is staying.
Beth discovers an illicit affair between Lauren and the stand-in drama teacher, and decides she must stop it.
The story includes an illicit affair between a teacher and a student, alongside Beth’s decision to intervene and consequences described as dire.
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Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.