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thought so—he couldn’t actually keep his mind on anything. And at lunchtime he did something he’d never done before. He withdrew a student’s personal file for information about something other than the student. After pulling Jill’s file he went back to his classroom to leaf through it and eat his lunch.
    “Mother’s name Lainey Clarkson.” His stomach twisted in that crazy way it did when you had new-found feelings for someone. He already knew that she’d gone back to her maiden name. He wondered how long it had been dragging on. She still seemed quite raw over the whole thing and so did Jill at times. “Occupation store owner. Father Thad Markham.” Something pulled at Jason’s memory. “Thad Markham,” he repeated. “Why does that name seem familiar to me?” He pulled out his laptop and flipped it open, Googling ‘Thad Markham’.
    “Wide receiver for the Jaguars. Huh, impressive, I guess, if you like the athletic type,” he said aloud.
    “Wow, Teach, you are seriously losin’ it.” Henry walked into the classroom. “Now you’re talking to yourself. This woman you met must make Megan Fox look like my Mrs Hightower.”
    “Mrs Hightower?”
    “The lunch lady.” He indicated her short stature with his hand. “Looks like a troll.” He shuddered dramatically.
    Jason laughed. God he loved these kids. It was times like this that he knew that he’d made the right decision to become a teacher. “You shouldn’t say things like that, Henry.”
    “I know but let’s face it, you and I were both at the head of the line in heaven when the looks were handed out. Seriously, I think we went back for seconds.”
    “Wow, but you missed the modesty line, son.”
    “What does that mean?”
    “Look it up. What are you doing back here?”
    “I forgot my binder.” He sauntered to the back of the class and retrieved it. “Hey, Dubya,” Henry said, coming back up the aisle. “I’ve been scoping out the ladies in the office, the female teachers, even the student teachers and EAs. Seriously, dude, I think you were yankin’ us. There are no babes in this school.”
    “I didn’t actually say she was on staff.”
    “Ya kinda led us to believe that.”
    “I said I met her here at school. Lots of people come and go in this place.”
    “Come and go, nice choice of words there, Teach. The way you were mooning over her breasts this morning leads me to believe you haven’t exactly hit it yet.”
    “Enough, Henry. My love life or lack thereof is not public domain anymore.”
    “Yeah, you sure did alotta chicks over the years.”
    Jason crossed his arms and gave Henry his best censorial frown.
    “You’ve mastered that one, Dub. I’m reasonably chastised.”
    When Jason gave him another glare, Henry laughed and said in his wise-ass way, “Look it up.”
    “You are smarter than you let on, Henry.”
    “Yeah, well, ya know sometimes the ladies dig it when you use big words. See ya, Dub.”
    “Have a good weekend, Henry,” he returned, on a chuckle.
    “You too, Romeo.”
    “Smart ass.”
    Henry snorted. “Hey, Teach? Did I hear you say Markham when I first came in?”
    Jason wasn’t sure how to handle this one. He had said it, but he didn’t want Henry telling Jill that he’d had her file.
    “Is something wrong with Jill? Like you’re not gonna call her Dad, are ya? I mean, I know she and her mom have been through it since that fuckin’ bastard did what he did, but—sorry for swearin’ in your class, man—but seriously, he’s an asshole. Don’t call him, that’s the last thing they need. If Jill needs tutoring or something, I’d be more than happy to help her out or find someone who can. She’s just getting back to being like she used to be—don’t bring him here to fuck with them, or give him any more ammunition.”
    Wow. Jason had never seen Henry so serious about anything.
    “What do you mean, Henry? What’d this guy do to them?”
    “What, do you