On Sunday afternoon, Mihaela and Nina went back to Toronto.
Ye Wei was not forgiven by Nina. She basically ignored him. No matter what he said, she just shook her head in a low voice and said a few words, "You don't have to coax me anymore", "We broke up", " Just say it if you like", "It's over".
Mihaela said that Nina needed some time to calm down and sort out her mood, and that he needed it too.
It takes time to sort out your mood. Ye Wei hated these two things, but how could he not, Nina needed them. He really hoped that he would receive a call from her early the next morning and hear her laughter: "Niuni, get up! I forgive you, niuni, continue!"
He will not give up on winning her back, but he also has to deal with other things, academically and career-wise, and he is caught in a huge whirlpool.
The case is being settled out of court by Chaberry¡¯s lawyer, but his characterization of violent injury cannot be changed. There are too many witnesses. He punched first and then injured two people.
Because of this characterization, the school has to decide whether to expel him through the Honor Review Committee.
The Honor Review Committee is an organization that specializes in reviewing major student foul cases. It consists of two parts: teachers and staff, and student representatives elected by the entire school. Students who violate the rules must also attend to defend themselves, and the results are finally determined by voting scores, but the scores for teachers and student representatives are different.
Since parents¡¯ opinions are not considered, Ye Wei¡¯s parents do not need to attend. If they are dissatisfied with the result, they can appeal or even take the school to court.
There are only a few days left in the fall semester, and the ruling will take place after school on Monday.
On Monday, there was an atmosphere of tension in the Harvard-Westlake Junior High School and Senior High School. All the teachers and students in the school already knew what would happen and what might happen today.
From morning to noon, and then to the end of school in the afternoon, young students on both campuses were constantly talking about this matter:
"I heard that Viy will be expelled. He will be expelled for ordinary fights. He committed a violent crime."
¡°I really don¡¯t want him to be fired, I really don¡¯t want him!¡±
"Who would think so? That's viy! He is so nice."
¡°I am going to go to the deliberation room to support him.¡±
"Let's go together!"
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The high school class ended at 3:10 pm on Monday, and it was time to count. The clear blue sky was shining with sunshine, heating up the excitement of this huge campus. The honor deliberation room in the academic building was also bustling with activity. The sounds of footsteps, conversations, and moving chairs all sounded in this court-like place.
Old Principal Hudnut is usually smiling and kind, but now he has a serious face. The same is true for more than a dozen other teachers. They include Ye Wei's class teacher, the dean in charge of his guidance, the football team coach, the club's assistant teacher, the committee teacher everyone looks serious.
They sat down at a row of chairmen¡¯s tables above the spacious conference room. On the wall behind them were Harvard-Westlake¡¯s red and black Wolverine school emblem flags and honor code signs.
The student representatives also arrived. A dozen young people dressed in elegant clothes, none of whom looked hip-hop, took their seats on both sides. Several of them exhaled quietly.
Today is a really important task, and the whole school is waiting for the results.
"I wish you good luck, Brother Wei!", "Defend well, you can do it!", "We all support you!"
The corridor outside the deliberation room was even more lively. A large group of students escorted Ye Wei here. All members of the Dream Pursuing Alliance came here, including Lev, Gia and other friends. Naturally, there were many. There were teachers maintaining order and letting them go and do their own thing, but more and more students gathered in the corridor.
All because of the young man wearing a red and black coat and jeans.
"Thank you everyone, go ahead and go, thank you." Ye Wei smiled at everyone, and amidst the support, he opened the door and walked into the deliberation room.
The layout of the room was a U-shape. He walked towards the chair in the middle and glanced around naturally. He was startled when he saw a figure in a white dress sitting above the seat on the right, Lily. Is she a member of the student representatives? I really didn't notice it before. He was too busy and didn't participate in the election.
Lily was also looking over and nodded slightly. She looks good, her thick and heroic eyebrows are slightly raised, her eyes are shining with calmness, and she really doesn't feel like ADHD at all.
Ye Wei knows everyone in the deliberation room. The student representatives include all ethnic groups, including those from the student union, the mutual aid association, and the friendship committee
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls." Ye Wei looked at everyone, "Hello." Everyone nodded, and he sat down on the orange student chair with a calm look on his face.
The old principal Hudnut in the center above is Yan YanThe deliberation began: "Ye Wei, our viy, you don't need to introduce me to what he did. You all know it." Looking at a document on the table, the old principal said again: "Everyone should read it first. Look at Ye Wei¡¯s honor record.¡±
The committee all looked at the same document on the table in front of them. From all the records from the seventh grade to the eleventh grade, Ye Wei had quite a lot of violations, such as making noise, impolite language, excessive pranks, and conflicts at dances There have been two major incidents, the drinking and fighting last year, and the violence and hurting people now.
??And his honors are very dazzling, never failing a class, champion of the second football team, founder of the popular club Dream Chaser League The film festival even established an award in his name.
Lily blinked her eyes and pursed her lips when she saw "In the fall semester of ninth grade, November 3, if you make noise in the assembly on Monday, you will be punished by five additional hours of cuttlefish action."
After a while, everyone had finished reading. The old principal said to Ye Wei in the middle of the deliberation room: "Wei, you are one of the biggest prides of the school in recent years. Harvard-Westlake is proud of you, but you also make her ashamed of you." , because you did something very serious, bad, and disappointing. What explanation do you have for this incident?¡±
Everyone¡¯s eyes were looking at Ye Wei, and the room was quiet. The students were looking forward to something.
"I have no explanation." Ye Wei's first sentence of defense made everyone frown, but he was not frivolous and arrogant, he was very peaceful: "The cause, process and result of this incident are all in the honor record It¡¯s written clearly. I am willing and need to take responsibility for my actions. I am sorry that my personal actions have brought shame to the school.¡±
The teachers looked at each other in shock. Coach Baibull of the football team said in an angry tone: "Captain, tell us what you think, why did this happen?"
Before today, Ye Wei had thought about what to say. There was a 90% chance that he would be expelled, but Lily would continue to go to school here. Of course, what she wanted to say to Alice could not be said here.
"I was really angry at that time. That woman stole first and said ugly words. I just lost control." He sighed and repeated, "I just lost control."
Seeing that Ye Wei didn't seem to be prepared to defend himself, the students were a little anxious. It was already difficult to recover, but viy still had this "I accept being expelled" attitude!
"Is there anything else?" Ms. Axel, the dean of guidance asked.
"It's nothing." Ye Wei said.
The atmosphere during the deliberation became tense, and suddenly a beautiful girl¡¯s voice sounded: ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I want to say a few words.¡±
Everyone heard the news and went away, Lily Collins, she said and stood up. Everyone knew that she and Ye Wei had a passionate love affair. This was so legendary in school. What did she want to say?
Ye Wei frowned and said softly: "Lily, you don't need to"
"The woman he hit, Dolores Palak, was my former domestic assistant." Lily ignored him and spoke calmly: "She did steal a box of things during my relationship with Ye Wei. , something he gave me. Because of this incident, we had a big misunderstanding and broke up. I can confirm Ye Wei's sincerity. "
Her words made the students roar. Ye Wei's mood was complicated, Lily, you don't like this, don't force yourself I don't want your support
Lily continued: "I won't comment on his punch. I want to say that everyone here, except me and him, will not understand." She blinked her clear eyes, "We can't explain clearly. We The beauty was ruined because of someone else¡¯s theft.¡±
She glanced at everyone, "Here, some people are in their youth, some have had youth, and love. You can understand an emotion. When you first met, you were thinking about whether to wait for him to send a text message or to send him a text message, and you were worried about what to say. What When you are passionately in love, you can talk on the phone all night and talk about anything You understand.
I want to say that his punch was not a violent crime, but an irrational loss of control. Those are the reasons.
I know this guy! "
Lily stared at the silent Ye Wei over there, "You also know this guy. He is not a bully. Can you find anyone in school who says 'I was bullied by viy' or 'I hate viy'? Can you?" Yes, find a few real school bullies, those are the people he bullies."
"Look here!" She spread her hands a little excitedly, her eyes red, "It looks like he has done something hugely wrong. No, I tell you, it's me. I told him that I wanted an apology, and he took the trouble to He tried very hard to find the woman and ran away stupidly. "
Ye Wei closed his eyes, stop talking, Lilyit's okay, it's really okay.
"Do you think Ye Wei can't think of a smarter way to deal with it?"??He's probably smarter than any of us here. "
Lily paused, "But this is him, a hero. I have to remind everyone of the fact that every hero is irrational! He and I have discussed this topic before."
The teachers and students all listened carefully, with thoughtful expressions on their faces.
"No sane person can become a hero!" Lily looked at the teachers above and said sincerely and confidently: "Those who set foot on the battlefield, those who rush into blizzards and fires to save others, these people are all irrational. Yes, because you will probably be a dead body tomorrow. Is there any consequence more serious than death?"
She shook her head, "I don't think so. However, a hero will still risk his life irrationally and set out without thinking about the most serious consequences. He won't think so much."
"People who only think about themselves in everything are bad guys!" Her voice was trembling a little, and she could hardly suppress the sadness in her heart. "Only bad guys are rational at all times and consider their own interests first in everything they do. They They are cowards, they are selfish!
You see someone drowning in the river. Even if you are a swimming instructor, if you jump into the river to save the person, your life will be in danger. Why don't you think about your family, your school, and yourself at that time? When everything starts from reason, you will not save people, and you will not do anything that has nothing to do with your own interests. Is that what we encourage? "
Ye Wei looked at her with a smile
Everyone who heard this was moved and saw Lily pouting and shaking her head, and she added: "We always encourage individual heroism. The United States encourages individual heroism the most! Why do we like heroes? Because the villain is just himself, and heroes represent many things, maybe Justice may be a dream, family affection, friendship, love but there is no sense!¡±
Lily paused again after raising her voice, and pointed her right hand at Ye Wei, "If we accuse him of being irrational and say how wrong he is, how ridiculous that would be! Then should we blame all other heroes? Before you die, Why don't you think more about it? What will happen to your family if you die? Why do you want to save others?
¡°If Ye Wei¡¯s irrationality is because he has done something bad, I will be the first to accuse him! But he's not, the bad guy isn't him, the bad guy is Dolores Parrack.
The villain can do whatever he wants for himself, but the hero has to be subject to so many restrictions if he doesn't do it for himself? This world sounds like it belongs to bad guys, so what¡¯s the point?
But, you are wrong! Why do you want to be a hero? Why! ? "
Lily looked at Ye Wei, her eyes filled with tears, and asked questioningly: "Being an ordinary person, or being a bad guy, doesn't it mean nothing happens to you? You idiot hero!"
"I don't know" Ye Wei said suddenly, "I don't know."
"Of course, of course you don't know, heroes are all idiots!" Lily's tearful eyes scanned everyone, "But we love these idiots, we love him. Because we know that when one of us is bullied, he will punch for us. . For me, for you, for a stranger, when he needs to take action, he will take action irrationally without hesitation.
Because heroes don¡¯t always think about interests, heroes always think about sacrifice!
If someone agrees to fire him, does that encourage us to treat everything in the most rational way and put our own interests first? What kind of conscience is that? What kind of honor is that? ! I have to say that firing Ye Wei would be a huge mistake! We will lose our honor and our heroes.
Ye Wei, he is a hero. "
Lily held back her tears, nodded to everyone, and looked at Ye Wei apologetically, "I'm done."
Just as she sat down, the student representatives burst into enthusiastic applause of approval in the deliberation room, and the teachers also applauded. Ye Wei shook his head and smiled in embarrassment.
Applause spread from the room to the corridor, and all the students listening also applauded with emotion. Lily said it so well! But no one shouted loudly, everyone was very serious.
After Lily, several more student representatives spoke one after another.
Laurel Sean, student president of the Student Mutual Aid Association, said: "I completely agree with what Lily Collins said. This incident cannot be defined as violence and injury, but a loss of reason. Depending on the specific reasons and circumstances, it can be understood and forgiven. Yes. Ye Wei is usually very busy, but he also actively participates in mutual aid. He has brought so much to us.¡±
¡°In my personal situation, Verity helped me a lot,¡± said Andrew Chang of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee. ¡°You don¡¯t know what I was like when I was in seventh grade. What made me change a lot was not Which teacher here, is viy, I am not even his good friend, he took me to play football, took me to play, he is our treasure, I can't imagine.?His school. "
"Lily Collins is right, he will take action for others, and you don't know it as well as I do." Thora Walker from the Peer Counseling Association said, "When we were in eighth grade, he once helped me teach someone a lesson. Not to mention who it was, he targeted me and often verbally bullied me and did some minor bullying, which the teacher couldn't help.
I was very troubled and didn¡¯t know what to do, but I heard that he blocked the guy for me and gave him a lesson, half-scared and half-beaten. It wasn¡¯t cruel, and no one else knew.
He said he learned this from "Freaks and Nerds". If someone keeps bullying you, if you beat him up, he won't dare to mess with you anymore. From then on, that guy really took a detour when he saw me and didn¡¯t bully anyone, because viy said to him, ¡®I¡¯m watching you. ¡¯ He always helps others but doesn¡¯t show off everywhere, so everyone respects him and calls him Boss! "
At the same time, students were still gathering in the corridor, with more and more people gathering. It was crowded but orderly.
Each student representative in the deliberation room made a speech and expressed their attitude. The student committee unanimously decided not to expel Ye Wei, but could impose some community service punishment.
The teachers all had serious faces as they exchanged documents and ideas. It was so difficult to make a vote for a star student who had a business card and was loved by his classmates.
After a long time, their voting results came to the old principal Hudnut, and the old principal himself had already made a decision. He seemed to have suddenly aged many years. Looking at the final result of this review, he remained silent for a long time.
Seeing the old principal like this, the students' hearts lifted. They felt relieved just now. Ye Wei would be fine Lily frowned, no, no!
"After the committee's decision, this review has a result." The old principal finally spoke, "The school has decided to expel Ye Wei from the school."
"No!!!", "Can't be expelled!", "This is a mistake!" The student representatives couldn't help shouting and stood up, but Lily sat there as if she couldn't stand up.
viy was fired! The corridor outside was suddenly in a commotion, with students exclaiming and dissatisfied with excited shouts: "I don't agree!", "Leave Ye Wei!!", "viy!!"
The result was as expected, Ye Wei leaned back in his chair and stood up slowly, a little feebly.
"Quiet!" the old principal shouted, and the students quickly fell silent, but everyone looked unconvinced, and the teachers all looked uncomfortable.
The old principal looked at Ye Wei in the field, sighed loudly, and then said: "We know what kind of good student Harvard-Westlake has lost. In the more than ten years I have been the principal, the school has expelled some students, but none Who can make us more difficult and sad than Ye Wei?"
He knew that it was not only the student representatives on both sides, but also many people in the corridor who were listening. With a solemn face, he said loudly: "Students, there are too many things in this world where you can't tell the difference between right and wrong. That's why we need the law and the school needs it." Discipline. Whatever the reason, the law is the law.
The school has zero tolerance for violent behavior! Harvard-Westlake is not a hero show stage for one person. We have a style of study and reputation to maintain, and we must have an attitude: violence is absolutely unacceptable. Based on this consideration, and because he only had a serious criminal record, the school decided to expel him.
Classmates, while you are proud of Ye Wei, please take this as a warning. "
No one could listen. All the student representatives were blushing at this time, and shouts rang out in the room and corridors: "Principal, give him another chance!", "Expelling Viy is not an honor!", "He is a hero!"¡¡
Lily covered her forehead and cried silently. Suddenly she couldn't stop sobbing. She looked at the floor without looking at anyone.
"Thank you everyone." At this time, Ye Wei spoke loudly, and the surroundings immediately became quiet. He looked at the sobbing Lily over there, looked at the old principal, and everyone, and said with a smile: "What Lily Collins said was very touching. , but she missed a few words. Being a hero has to pay a price, you can also call it a sacrifice.
If I am a hero, this is the price I have to pay.
I 100% understand the school¡¯s decision. A person can be a hero or not; what the school does is to provide an objective, good and strict environment, allowing us to choose what kind of person we want to be, except for the bad guys. Therefore, I personally believe that it was not right or wrong for me to punch, but it was right for the school to expel me.
There are many reasons to be a hero, and there are many reasons to be irrational, such as justice, compassion, morality, salvation One of them is anger, which is what I was irrational about this time.
I like a line from "Batman": Anger gives you great power, but it can destroy you if you go too far.
This is the biggest thing I got from thisSave it, like the principal said, everyone should take this as a warning, thank you. "
After Ye Wei finished speaking, everyone was still silent. The students were speechless and the teachers couldn't help but sigh.
Lily was still holding her forehead, her shoulders were shaking, her eyes were filled with tears, and she didn¡¯t look at him