(Macbeth, Act V, Scene 3, line 15) School dragged all day. Part of it was because Luke was tired from all that time on the Internet. But mostly it was because he was trying to think his own thoughts. School wasn’t a good place to think, Luke decided. The teachers kept getting in the way. Was Mrs Easson right? Did the truth about Macbeth matter? Maybe what she was saying was that lies didn’t matter if good came out of them. Shakespeare lied about Macbeth, but wrote a brilliant play. So that made it okay. So what if he didn’t tell anyone about the exam? He’d made Mum happy. Sam could boast about his stepson and Megan would think he wasn’t the dumb kid next door after all. He should just leave things as they were…just enjoy people thinking he was great because he’d got a scholarship, enjoy the dream if it came back tonight… Things had turned out pretty well for Lulach, hadn’t they? A stepfather he was proud of—and who was proud of him too. What would happen next? he wondered.
