You know how it is when you first start at high school. You think you're going to make a fresh start and be real smart for the first time in your life. Most of first term you think you're in there with a chance. Then come second term, you've blown it again. Come second term, our class loosened up a bit.
Regular detentions can bring a class together in some ways.
Nina Dimitriadis was operating her own little network by that stage. She and her girlfriends used to ring us boys up after school, just to get a reaction. It sounds kind of horny now, but at the time it was bad news. You couldn't get a serious word out of them. You couldn't have a conversation with any of them, but you couldn't hang up either, because then you'd be a target.