Kate asked if they could ask the school to help mediate or call the police. It might be possible that they were blackmailing them.

Max's classmate said no because if the school knew that, they would be expelled because their school had very strict discipline policies, and the guys looked to have a gangster background and they threatened that if they called the police, then they would cut Max's fingers off.

Kate was shocked, but she composed herself and asked Max's classmate to ...