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I hated the headmistress and after that thrashing I just wanted to kill her, although she did me a favour in a way since in the sick bay at least I finally had a rest from Sebastián’s group and for once I could sleep in a bed with a blanket and a pillow, which I kissed imagining it was Carla.

I was discharged after five days.

I dressed in my uniform, picked up my school rucksack and headed for the classroom but there was nobody there, the chairs were tucked neatly under the desks, there were papers on the floor; it looked as though nobody had been there for a while. I went to look for my classmates and found them in the dormitory.

‘What’s going on?’ I asked Miss Rosa, who was crying.

‘Someone killed Sebastián! Someone killed him!’

This news didn’t have much effect on me as I hated him and the rest of my classmates.

‘Come here, Lorenzo,’ commanded the headmistress who had spotted my presence and the fact that I was smiling.

I approached her and she promptly frogmarched me to her office.