P.E

Gwen had been dreading PE while she wasn't awful at it the fact that Arthur was really good at it had Gwen hesitating. They got changed in the changing rooms and came out to the hall. The PE teacher Mr. Brown explained that they would be doing volleyball for this half term. Gwen groaned she could never hit the ball correctly when she served and she was too small to jump up to the height of the net to spike the ball.

They started warming up by following Mr. Brown's example and then they had to run around the hall to warm up their legs. As Gwen was jogging she noticed Arthur looking at her with a strange expression on his face. She then followed his eyes down and realized he was staring at her breasts. She'd developed early and was usually able to hide it under her baggy school uniform but she couldn't hide it in PE. She covered herself with her arms quickly and Arthur grinned at her.

Mr. Brown asked them to come back and sit down while he explained what they were going to do today.

'Right the first thing we're going to do is to learn how to serve correctly.'

'I'll demonstrate how to serve correctly with Merlin.'

Merlin stood up and stood beside the teacher with the volleyball.

'First you place the ball in your non writing hand so you can steady it then with your writing hand curl it into a fist with your thumb placed flat over your finger then hit the ball evenly from underneath taking care not to hit it with your knuckles.'

'Merlin you serve it to me and I'll catch it you can tell that it is served correctly because the ball should go straight ahead. You will get into your sitting partners and serve to each other.'

The class stood up and Arthur went to get the ball so he could serve to Gwen he had a plan he was going to serve the ball in all different directions so she would have to run to catch it. He went back to Gwen and noticed that there was a significant height difference and that she would have to serve really high in order for him to catch it.

'I'll serve first,' said Arthur and he hit the ball as hard as he could to Gwen's right side. She had to run to catch it but she missed.

'You did that on purpose!' exclaimed Gwen who knew that Arthur was brilliant at volleyball so he was purposely serving to the side to make her run.

'I don't know what you're talking about,' replied Arthur, 'it's your turn now.'

Gwen knew she wasn't very good at serving and Arthur was really tall so she would have to serve really high. She hit the ball but it went straight up instead of towards Arthur and she had to catch it quickly to not stop the ball from hitting her in the face. Arthur burst out laughing and she threw it and hit him in the face with it. Blood gushed out of his nose and then Gwen was laughing.

'Bet you didn't think I was good at serving the ball but it turns out I'm good at throwing don't you think?'

'What is going on here?' demanded Mr. Brown who rushed towards them.

'Arthur was being nasty to me so I hit him in the face with the ball' answered Gwen honestly.

Arthur was too busy holding his nose with his shirt to stop the bleeding to answer the teacher. Merlin rushed over to help his friend but he was smothering a laugh at what Gwen had done.

'Merlin please get some tissues and an ice pack from the office.' Merlin rushed out to get the items.

'Gwen come here, what is this about this isn't like you.'

'He's being so nasty to me and he was laughing when I couldn't serve he was also hitting the ball all over the place so I would have to run after it.'

'You can't hurt people you will have to stay in during your lunch time and write lines while your parents will be contacted to tell them what you've done. This stops now!'

Gwen didn't care about missing her lunch it had been worth it but she didn't relish the thought of her parents finding out they'd ground her for sure. She looked back at Arthur and thought hopefully I broke his nose! Gwen went to get changed while they were sorting out Arthur when she came out Elaine told her that Arthur had to go to hospital because Mr. Brown thought that Arthur's nose was broken.

'Good!' exclaimed Gwen 'I hope I broke it the nasty jerk deserved it.'

They returned to class and Mr. Morgan asked where had Arthur gone?

Elaine put up her hand.

'Sir Gwen and Arthur were fighting in PE. Arthur was being nasty so Gwen hit him in the face with the ball and Mr. Brown thinks she might have broken his nose. He's been taken to hospital.'

'Guinevere!' exclaimed Mr. Morgan in shock at what she'd done.

Gwen did show any remorse and said, 'I have to write lines at lunch and Mr. Brown is going to call my parents.'

'This is not like you, you are a top student and you are letting Arthur get to you. You should just ignore him.'

'I can't ignore him no matter how hard I try he finds a way to get to me. I'm not sorry. He deserved it.'

'Gwen I'm warning you now that if another situation like this happens again you will be excluded and that is something you don't want on your record especially in your last year of Primary School. Right you can sit down and write your lines.'

'What do you want me to write?' questioned Gwen.

'You can get a dictionary and copy out the word responsibility and its meaning one hundred times you will also write a letter of apology to Arthur,' knowing that it would be painful for Gwen to do.

Gwen got a dictionary and began to do her lines which she didn't mind but writing a letter of apology. That would be hard she would have to find a clever way to word it so it was a letter of apology but without saying sorry. It took her half an hour to write her lines while she ate her lunch. She handed in her lines to Mr. Brown and she now had to write her letter to Arthur.

Arthur,

I know that I hit you in the face with the ball in PE and probably broke your nose. I'm supposed to say I'm sorry so that is it. Hopefully your face won't swell to the size of the volleyball and you should turn some interesting colours. Hope to see you in school soon.

Gwen

There she had written her letter of apology. She hoped he wouldn't be out of school too long as she couldn't wait to find out if she had indeed broken his nose and see the way his nose would be all swollen and bruised. She could then make fun of his face the same way he made fun of her hair.

The rest of afternoon passed happily for Gwen as she didn't have Arthur beside her annoying and distracting her.

When school was over Mr. Morgan went into Mrs. Palmer's classroom and told her what Gwen had done.

'I've known Arthur since he started this school and I've never known him to be so nasty especially towards a girl,' commented Mrs. Palmer.

'Gwen doesn't back down from him no matter how hateful he is and when I had her writing lines she wasn't the least remorseful for what she did in fact she thinks he deserved it.'

'Mark my words there are powerful sparks between those two and you know what they say that boys always pick on girls that they like just to get their attention. That is clearly what Arthur is doing but in all the wrong ways. He is going to go after her with vengeance now.'

'We'll have to keep a close eye on them. I wonder if she did break his nose we'll have to ask Gary when he gets back from the hospital.'

Just as they were talking about him the teacher returned from the hospital.

'Did she break his nose?'

'Yes she did and it is right in the middle of his nose his father is furious and demands that Gwen be excluded. I then explained what Arthur had been doing to Gwen and he took back what he said about Gwen. Apparently Arthur's father had no idea what had been going on and now Arthur has been grounded as I imagine Gwen will be.'

The teachers were right both Gwen and Arthur had been grounded by their respective parents who couldn't understand that their children could be capable of what they'd done.