Akinyi by Richard Wood
Brendan squared up to the deputy head and for a totally unbelievable second I thought, oh my god, he's going to headbutt her. I could have scarpered. If I had, he'd never have become my boyfriend. And when the school caught fire and a policewoman was stabbed at a football match and the police came after Brendan I'd never have legged-it from school, nicked the knife, turned detective... All in the hope of proving he was innocent.