My friend Chantel and her family (mom and two brothers) are no longer living with her mother's boyfriend. Said boyfriend beat her mother, breaking her nose, and kicked them out. The boyfriend is in jail, and they're all living with Chantel's godfather in Brookings now. She's enrolled at Brookings High School and starts tomorrow.

I don't even know how to react to that; what worries me most is how used to it Chantel seems. Yesterday she was pretty shaken up, but today she seemed mostly unfazed. I guess she's good at faking her way through.

I'm kind of at a loss for words.