It is 5am and 8-year-old Mark is pretending to be fast asleep as his mother wakes him up to prepare to go to school. His young mind is awake but clouded by disturbing thoughts. He has grown to like his teachers but he dreads facing another long day in the company of some three boys out to make his school life torturous. They have unceasingly unleashed bad names and even cooked bad stories about him and try he has, but his rebuttals haven’t assuaged the bad feeling the attack lines leaves him with.