It takes a little time but it getts better. Ursula speakes with the principal about the bombthreatening and Matt is realesed. But then another problem starts. When Matt gets back to school everybody is kind of ignoring him, even Ursula.
Ursula is ignoring Matt because she´s not sure how to handle things with him, she´s even having little bit of strange feeling about Matt that she can´t locate.
Matt is letting go of a lot of things. His friends, being VP in the junior class, writing for the newspaper etc. He´s becoming tuffer. And he likes it.
I think there is a hidden message in the text. That you should think about who your real friends are. In Matts case his none of "friends" were actually there for him.
Excellent thinking - he realizes who he can actually trust, when it really matters.
SvaraRaderaOr, rather, who he can NOT trust, as you rightly pointed out.
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