My gaze hardened slightly. I knelt, smiling at Mason. "Mason, Wilhelm shouldn't have acted the way he did, and I've already spoken to him about it. Can you forgive him?"

Mason glanced at me, his expression still impassive. He didn't care much for this smiling, smooth-talking man, so he stayed silent.

I was momentarily startled by Mason's eyes which resembled Sofia's and softened my expression.

Unsettled by my odd gaze, Mason frowned and turned to Laura. "Ms. Ferrier, I'd like to go back to class now."

Sensing that Mason was unwilling to forgive Wilhelm, Laura wanted to encourage him to be more forgiving, but then she remembered the principal's note...