Still reading

I am still reading "Personal Effects" and I have gotten pretty far. What I have read is making things so intense. Matt's dad finally comes to the office where he talks to the principle for awhile. His dad is the one mainly talking in there and they both end up leaving. Matt was scared because his dad hits him and tells him he is weak. Matt was sitting in the car in science. He thought that his dad was going to tell him things for sure, but he didn't. He stood quiet for a while and then finally spoke. Then once they get home his dad just wants answers about how the fight started. Thats all I have gotten to so far.

Matt keeps bring up a guy named T.J. and I really don't know who he is. He always brings him up when he is just talking about fighting or getting hurt. I'm thinking that he is Matts brother or cousin. It has to be a relative. They are very close because in the book it says "We'd been hiking together since  I was Twelve" This means that they have been together for awhile because he is already 17 years old. They have been hiking for about 5 years already and they would go all alone. That is what makes me think that T.J. and Matt are close. Also I still wonder what T.J. has to do with fighting and acting tuff.