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Chapter 2
Charlie Baker glanced out of his window. Several of the Swords were outside. He could see the girl that Jake and Mike had pointed out as Wednesday on the ground wrestling with an older brother.
Giving his attempt at completing his homework and deciding to do it tomorrow morning he jammed his feet into his worn out pair of tennis shoes and headed outside. He heard and attempt to stop Wednesday and the boy's fighting and saw a girl his age doing her best to separate the two.
"Hey Wednesday," Charlie called after a minute. "Why don't you go see what Mike and Jake are up to?"
Wednesday smiled and ran off. The other boy went inside to do… whatever it is he does.
"Thanks," the girl said. "Wednesday and Josh are competitive. I can never get them to stop."
"I learned a few tricks from dealing with Sarah and Jake when they were younger," Charlie said casually. "I'm Charlie by the way." He held out a hand.
She smiled and shook his hand. "I'm Lindsey."
"Um… Do you want to hang out sometime?" Charlie asked.
"That'd be great. Maybe you could show me around school," she said. Charlie smiled.
A few hours later Charlie glanced out his window. He had discovered that from his room he could see into Lindsey's bedroom. He felt slightly stalker-ish but there was no way on Earth that he would mention it to anybody.
Lindsey was her pajamas sitting on her bed reading. Charlie knew that the Swords started school tomorrow and for once in his life he found himself looking forward to school.
"Hey Lindsey," Charlie greeted the blond girl as she walked in to the school. He and Lindsey had agreed they would meet at school early so he could give her the tour.
"Hey Charlie," she said. "Sorry I'm late. Greg split his cereal all over me so I had to change."
"That's alright," Charlie said. He added the name Greg to the list in his mind of all the Swords.
"So this is… the hallway," Charlie said lamely. He had just enough time to show her the lunch room, main hallway, front office, and lockers before they had to grab their stuff and head to first period.
Charlie was walking home. His car was in the shop but it wasn't that far back to the house.
"Oh, hey Lindsey," he said after rounding the corner and almost running into her. Lindsey didn't respond but was on her knees in front of Wednesday. Wednesday had a bloody nose with blood dried on her face, a black eye, and tears streaming down her face.
"What happened?" Charlie asked setting his bag against a stop sign.
"Wednesday got her first experience with some bullies at school," Lindsey said.
Just then Jake, Mike, Josh, Greg, and Sean showed up. (Josh, Greg, and Sean are Wednesday brothers.) "They know better than to touch my little sis now," Josh said.
As much as Josh and Wednesday fought and competed with each other they would kill anyone who hurt the other.
"And you're sure they won't send you to juvie again?" Lindsey asked. Josh nodded.
"He's been to juvie?" Charlie asked. Lindsey nodded.
"Josh, Sean, and Wednesday are the only ones."
"But Wednesday's seven," Charlie said. Could seven year olds go to juvie?
Lindsey shrugged. "We were at Wal-mart, the manager called the cops, Wednesday had broken some dudes arm and both his legs, and she had to spend the weekend in juvie."
Charlie had to hide his surprise. "Oh."
Lindsey held Wednesday's hand and they started walking to their house.
An hour later the four bullies were found with mild injuries. Those boys sure do love Wednesday.
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