Jamal (Calman High School)

## Jamal

Jamal is a student at Calman High School and a former member of its carpentry club.

## Personality

Jamal is presumably an outgoing and charismatic person, since, along with his girlfriend Katrina, he was an unofficial leader of the carpentry club.

## Relationships

### Hector Goffe

Jamal presumably blames Hector for his and Katrina’s expulsion, since he apparently not intervened to stop the rest of the club from ignoring Hector until he quit.

### Katrina

Katrina is Jamal’s girlfriend, who he is seeing against the will of both their families.

## History

Roughly seven months before start of the story Hector accidentally caught Jamal and Katrina having sex in the clubroom. Later, due to being cornered by Ms. Trent, Hector told her about it. This resulted in expulsion and the need to repeat a year for both of them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ‘*Fine...*’ He took a breath as he entered the hall. ‘*Basically, ah... well, one thing you have to understand about the kids in the club is that, uh... they’re very... well, they’re very close-knit. They, um. I mean, I wouldn’t call them a clique, exactly, but... they have some of those qualities, I guess.*’

‘*Go on.*’

‘*And, uh... there’s this couple. Katrina and Jamal. They’re sort of like the group’s leaders. The alpha couple. And, um. One day, I, uh... I kinda... I mean, I... ah, man, this is... just...*’ - Excerpt from page 222
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ‘*I, uh... I saw them having sex in the clubroom.*’

Garovel stared at him a moment. ‘*Uh. Huh.*’

‘*Yeah... I mean, I just walked in on them and... yeah...*’

‘*What did you do?*’

‘*I ran away. Which... probably wasn’t the right thing to do. They’d seen me. So... maybe I shoulda just talked to them, but... I... that... there was just no way...*’

‘*I can imagine.*’

Hector proceeded outside through the front of the school. ‘*But, um... anyhow, to make a long story short, uh... I mean, I wasn’t going to tell anyone about what I saw... but I kinda... ended up telling Ms. Trent.*’

‘*Ah. Damn, Hector.*’

‘*Yeah... I-I tried not to tell her, but... uh... Ms. Trent already had her suspicions, I guess... and... she sorta cornered me... and I just... I don’t know. I couldn’t lie about it. And I should have...*’ He shook his head. ‘*I really fucking should have...*’

Garovel gave a sympathetic shrug. ‘*You just told the truth. Why does everyone in the club hold that against you?*’

‘*Because... Katrina and Jamal were both expelled, and now they have to repeat a year.*

‘*Oh. Yikes.*’

‘*I hadn’t, uh... I hadn’t actually done anything wrong, so... they couldn’t kick me out of the club, but...*’

‘*They ignored you until you just left on your own.*’

‘*Pretty much...*’

‘*Is that when you decided to kill yourself?*’

Hector sighed. ‘*When you put it like that... it sounds even more pathetic...*’ - Excerpt from pages 222 and 223
3. ↑ ‘*They’re not dicks*,’ said Hector. ‘*They’re just... very protective of each other. A lot of the kids in that club have pretty rough home lives. So they rely on each other a lot. And the two people I got expelled... from what I’d overheard, um... they were having sex at school because their families didn’t want them seeing each other anywhere else.*’ - Excerpt from page 224