div class="userstuff module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1088.62px; float: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #2a2a2a;" role="article"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Charles Boyle hated the school bus ride in the morning, especially the first 20 minutes before Jake gets on. Seth Dozerman makes his life hell, the bullying had been constant for nearly the whole 3 months they'd been at school. The bus ride is the worst, he steals his food, his money, ruins his homework and books. They were just approaching Jake's stop as Seth continued to launch things at Charles head. Dozerman had never been caught by the bus driver and had mastered the art of bullying without teachers /Charles' heart leapt when he saw /"Hey Jakey, what did you have for breakfast?" He asked excitedly as Jake sat next to /"Oh I didn't have anything I think my Dad must have got back really late and left early or something because he forgot to make me anything," Jake said, with a slight /Dozerman started to launch things at Charles /"Quit it Dozerman!" Jake /"Shut up Peralta, what's it got to do with you," Dozerman taunted, throwing a book at /"Leave Charles alone!" Jake said /"Or you'll do what?" Seth said raising his eyesbrows, then throwing a book at Jake hitting him straight in the /The anger bubbled through Jake and he picked up objects Seth had been throwing and launched them straight back at /"Cut it out back there!" The bus driver /The boys continued in there war, Charles hid behind his /"Peralta sit down!" The bus driver shouted to no /"Peralta is throwing things at me sir and I didn't do anything!" Seth called./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Mr Jeffords was standing at the bus stop waiting for his class. The first bus pulled up and out came Rosa and Gina giggling about something, probably inappropriate. Amy greeted him as she steeped off the bus with a pile of books. Terry then did his daily ritual of going on to the bus to wake up Hitchcock and Scully. Then he returned to his position as he saw the other bus coming down the street. He smiled ready to start the day, but the bus driver looked weird, he kept turning round in his seat and shouting things, looking quite annoyed and panicked. The bus pulled up and the driver opened the doors and motioned for Terry to get on. Once on the bus the scene that met Terry was not what he wanted to see to start the day. Boyle looked like he was close to tears, Jake was launching things at Dozerman, who was subtly taunting him while protecting himself with a /"Enough!" Terry /Jake stopped throwing things and looked towards /"What the hell is going on!" Terry /"Peralta started to attack Seth with books, throwing them even though I kept telling him not to, from what I can see it was unprovoked," the bus driver /"It wasn't, I was protecting Bo-" Jake /"You should not be throwing books at people!" Terry said sternly. "Right everyone go and sit with the rest of the school in assembly, Jake stay where you are, Seth come here please," Terry /The rest of the bus filed out, on his wait Terry felt someone pull his sleeve and saw it was /"Seth started it sir," he /"Ok Thankyou Boyle, go and join everyone else," Terry said, Charles left, leaving Terry and the two boys. He looked between them, Jake was now sulking and sat with a big pout on his face. Dozerman had a cockiness about /"Seth you have a detention for throwing things at Charles Boyle, that is not allowed and I do not want to hear of a repeat of this behaviour!" Terry /"What but Peralta-" Seth started to protest but Terry shot him a look that silenced him. Mr Jeffords pointed out the door and Seth wandered off to /"Jake get your butt down here," he /Jake trudged down to the front of the /"You know not to behave like that, so the only explanation is that Dozerman did something to aggravate you, something so bad, like hurting your best friend. Am I right?" Terry /Jake /"Well personally I don't think I should punish someone for being a good friend, as long as that someone promises they will handle that situation differently in the future and tell an adult?" Terry /Jake looked up and smiled at /"Okay," he /"Right come on assembly," Terry said leading Jake off to join the rest of the school./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mr Jeffords, I was wondering where you'd got to, your class was teacher-less, they are in the hall, assembly just finished," Mr Holt /"Sorry sir, I had to sort an issue on the buses out," Terry /"Trouble?" Holt said raising his eyebrows and glancing at Jake who /"All sorted out now sir," Terry said /"Good, Peralta you have decreased your monthly detention total by 37% in the last month, I do not want to see it go back up. Don't let yourself down," Holt said looking at /"Okay sir," Jake /Holt marched off down the corridor to his /"Come on let's go and get everyone else," Terry said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Right stop talking, Gina!" Terry shouted. Gina shot him a cheeky smile and turned away from Rosa to listen to Mr /"Ok so you're in pairs, Amy, Gina and Rosa you'll have to be a three, and there's a Math worksheet on the desk, I want you to work through it as a group, it incorporates everything we've learnt so far, so hopefully if one of you doesn't understand something the others can explain," Terry /Amy snapped up the worksheet and scanned it, mentally checking she knew the methods for all the /"So do you wanna just do it and me and Gina can talk," Rosa said to /"I'm too pretty for Math," Gina said looking at her /"I mean we're meant to do it as a group so I could show you how, if you wanted?" Amy said, a little nervously. She wrote all three of their names at the top of the sheet. Gina then grabbed it and rewrote her name in neon pink /"Ok then how do you do question one?" Rosa asked, with no enthusiasm in her /Amy grinned, answering questions was her favourite thing. "Ok well..." she began and poured out her knowledge to the two girl. Rosa's eyebrows started to turn from a frown to a slight hint of impressed and Gina even glanced up from her nails from time to time. Amy beamed as she took them through the sheet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Charles had been emotionless all lesson, he hadn't tried to high five Jake once, he was miserable. Jake glared at Dozerman across the /"Charles come on, maybe it's all over now, we finally stood up to him, he won't be mean to you again," Jake /"I don't know Jake, if it's not him there'll be someone else, it always happens to us Boyle boys," Charles sighed /"Ok well if anyone tries to be mean to you I'll protect you!" Jake /Charles' face did light up a bit at this prospect./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Wow Amy you're really smart," Rosa said. Amy /"Yeah Amy you're a massive nerd," Gina /"Aww you guys, Thankyou," Amy /They were the first group to finish and as a treat Terry let them go and get their snacks and start snack time /"Damn Amy you're the best girl," Gina /Amy went to sit in her usual spot, by the /"Yo come sit with us," Rosa called from where she was sitting at the window with /"Yeah look from here you can see all the handsome pe teachers running round on the field," Gina said, staring across the /"Yeah and you can see all the kids failing at sports," Rosa said, laughing as a kid fell at the /Amy sat down with them, she felt special, they weren't teasing her for once, she was being included./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Right guys go and get your snack and then come and get a carton of milk from the front," Terry said, going round the room to collect all the /Charles heart sunk when he remembered Dozerman had taken his food, Jake offered him some Jelly Worms but his pallet couldn't bare the processed sugar chemicals. They sat down with their milk and Jake tried to cheer Charles up by talking about Genevieve, the girl in the year above Charles had a crush on. Just as Boyle started to perk up Dozerman sat opposite them. He was eating Charles' /"Go away Seth," Jake /"No im eating my food, what is this homemade sushi," Seth taunted rubbing his /"Give Charles his food back!" Jake /"No, but I'm actually quite full up," Dozerman said, he then leaned over and tipped the contents of Charles' lunch in the bin. A cry of despair escape Boyle. That was it for Jake, no one messes with Charles, especially not his food. Jake slammed his fist down on his carton of milk and the contents exploded and covered Dozerman, who stood there in shock. The sound silenced the /Terry wandered over, dumbfounded at the scene of a milk covered Dozerman and a open mouthed but very pleased Jake and Boyle's head was just darting back and fourth between the /"Outside," Terry said to Jake, who was trying to suppress his /"Go and stand outside, get in the corridor now!" Terry roared, causing Jake to jump and scurry out the /Charles mopped up the milk while Terry helped Dozerman to clean himself up./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Meanwhile Amy was helping Rosa and Gina with their homework, Gina had even offered Amy an invite to her birthday party, she did spend 20 minutes talking in depth about the presents she wanted though. But Amy was happy, maybe school wasn't just about work./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"20 minutes after the incident Terry settled the class down and got them to do some silent reading or in Gina's case drawing as she didn't want to read about other people she just wanted to draw herself. He then decided he better go and deal with /The young boy was slouched against the wall, still obviously /"Get off the wall!" Terry said crossing his arms as he closed the door behind /Jake stood up /"I am so annoyed with you, did you not listen to what I said to you this morning, you didn't even make it until lunchtime," Terry said /Jake's proudness faded and he stared at the /"Sorry," he /"Well now you can join Dozerman in detention. You need to get Charles to come and speak to a teacher about this bullying we can't do anything unless he tells us, because at the moment all we're seeing is you lashing out," Terry /Jake nodded and followed Terry back inside./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Lunchtime came and Amy, Gina and Rosa sat together, they were laughing and joking. Busy creating a girl gang, Amy was taking notes of everything Rosa and Gina mentioned. Jake was busy talking to Charles, they had decided to report Dozerman but Charles wanted to eat the lunch that Jake had bought for him /Dozerman wandered over to them, Charles braced himself for attack and Jake tensed /"Hey Boyle what's this?" Seth said holding up a bag full of the remainder of Boyles food he'd stolen this /"Ah come on Seth, please that my favourite, my Dad only makes that once a month," pleaded Charles his eyes fixed on the /"Give it back to him Seth," Jake /"But I don't want to," Dozerman replied, he then swiped Charles' tray of the food Jake had bought him off the table, sending it crashing to the floor. Jake stood up ready to fight but, managed to restrain /"Back off!" Jake /Seth pushed Boyle who fell back off his seat onto the /"Hey Boyle maybe I should give your lunch to Jake considering he's never had a lunch made by a dad before!" Seth teased. As soon as the words left Seth's mouth something in Jake clicked. A mixture of anger and sadness flowed through his veins and propelled him towards Dozerman, his fist colliding with Seth's nose. The two wrestled on the /"Fight. Fight. Fight!" Gina chanted, Rosa joining /The on duty teacher ran off the get assistance. Seth punched Jake in the chest and they rolled around on the floor as Jake kicked furiously at Dozerman landing a good punch to his jaw./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mr Jeffords! Mr Jeffords! There's a fight in the cafeteria. Jake Peralta and Seth Dozerman are punching the living daylights out of eachother!" Mrs Brookes said charging into the staff room. Mr Jeffords huffed and got to his /"Bring them straight to my office," Mr Holt /Terry nodded and charged down the corridor to the cafeteria. He could hear the chanting as he got close. Mrs Brookes hurried along beside /"I didn't see how it started," she /"I can imagine what went on," Terry said. He burst through the doors and the chanting ceased apart from /"No don't stop just cause Jeffords is here," she /Terry rushed forward and tried to pull the two boys apart but both were adamant to get the last punch in. He managed finally to hand Seth to Mrs Brookes and keep a hold of Jake. Jake was struggling furiously trying to get to Dozerman, there were tears in the boy's eyes, Terry had never seen this side to Jake. That happy, go lucky, cheeky, class clown was nowhere to be seen. Instead he was having to restrain this young boy who was so full of sadness and anger, struggling to manage the velocity of his own /"Calm down, calm down!" Terry soothed and Jake twisted and turned in his grip. He motioned to Mrs Brookes to take Seth up to the /Jake had stilled and Terry loosened his grip, grabbing the boy's hand and leading him out of the room, all eyes still on /Mr Jeffords looked down at Jake as they walked to the office, a single tear slid down his cheek but Jake wiped it away hurriedly. He knew the kid was in trouble but he wanted to help him, something was going on that Jake wasn't saying./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"They got to the office and the door was open, Dozerman was already sat in front of Holts /"Come in Mr Jeffords," Holt /Terry sat down in the chair with Dozerman to his left and then Jake sat in the chair to his /"We'll do you have anything to say Peralta. Mrs Brookes said it was you who threw the first punch. I've heard Dozerman's side of the story, his account indicates that you instigated the fight and he fought back in self defence. He also said that this is the third time today you have attacked him," Holt said /Jake just shrugged and stared at the /"Sir can I talk to you for a minute?" Mr Jeffords /"Boys there are 4 chairs outside my door, please go and reside in one, do not talk to each other and any fighting will result in severe punishment," Holt said. Jake and Dozerman /"This isn't really Peralta's fault, Dozerman has been bullying Charles, all the incidents today have been Jake trying to protect his friend," Terry /"I see. He has still attacked a pupil on 3 different occasions, we do not tolerate violence in the school, just one of those occurrences would usually have resulted in suspension," Holt /"I know he did wrong, I'm not saying don't punish him. I'm just saying I should have stepped in earlier with the bullying, Jake was just protecting his friend and taking matters into his own hands. Dozerman is the one who needs reprimanding," Terry /Holt's expression neither indicated that he agreed or disagreed with what had been said but he called both boys back /"Dozerman, it would seem you instigated the fights, maybe not physically, but. verbally. Bullying is not tolerated in this school, you are suspended for 2 weeks, go and sit back outside my office my secretary will call your mother to come and collect you," Holt said, a smile appearing across Terry's face. Dozerman got up, Holt left no room for argument so he had to /"Oh and leave Charles Boyle alone, if I hear of any incidents you will be out of this school for good," Holt /He turned back to Jake, who was sat tapping his fingers /"You haven't made the best of starts Peralta, your behaviour has been highlighted from the very first day, something I thought was starting to improve. Then you decide to get into fights, 3 in one day. The school does not tolerate violence, although you had a valid reason to be angry, you must not retaliate to antagonists. This cannot go unpunished, I'm going to call you father and have him come in to discuss today's events," Holt /The look of horror spread across Jake's face /"Please don't call my dad, please!" Jake begged tears starting to well up in his /"I'm afraid Mr Peralta, I have to, you need to know your behaviour was wrong and your parents need to know what's been going on," Holt said. "Now go and sit outside while we wait for your father to arrive,"br /Jake slumped down in the seat, Dozerman sat staring at the floor in silence. Jake brought his knees up to his chest and buried his head in them as his tears began to flow. His dad was going to be so disappointed, Jake knew how busy he was and now he was having to come and pick him up. Maybe his Mom might come instead, he hoped. Jake cried and cried, Terry came out and called Dozerman's parents. The sobbing Jake caught his attention before he dialled for Roger /"Please don't call my dad!" Jake /Terry crouched down in front on the big placing his hand on Jake's /"Hey buddy it's ok, your Dads just coming in for a chat," Terry comforted, but it's only led to another sob from /"He's going to be so disappointed in me," Jake cried /"Well I'm afraid we have to do this, the best thing you can do is be on your best behaviour from now on, I'm sure your dad would be so proud of you if you could do that," Terry /Jake just buried his head in his hands, Terry sighed and went to make the call./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"A little while later Dozerman's parents arrived, they went into Holts office and emerged minutes later, Dozerman was sobbing as his mother lectured how they'd never been so ashamed. Jake's tears only started to fall more as the anticipation of his dads arrival grew. Gina and Charles walked by on their way to gym, they each gave him a big hug. Gina even managed to calm him down and stop him crying, promising Jake she would help him no matter what his dad did./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The secretary's phone /"Mr Holt, Roger Peralta is in reception!" She /"Send him down," Holt /Jake's lip quivered. Moments later the doors at the end of the corridor burst /"What the hell Jake! I play catch with you for 10 minutes on the weekend and this is how you repay me." Roger Peralta shouted marching towards Jake. "I was really busy, I was in the middle of a date, I mean I was in the middle of work!" He /"I'm really sorry dad," Jake pleased his eyes welling /"I was in a meeting and if that person doesn't want to see me again because I had to leave, I'm getting rid of your Die Hard DVD," Roger /"Mr Peralta, if you'd like to come in to my office I can explain today's incidents," Holt /They sat down opposite Holt, Jake's staring at his father, observing his facial expressions with a heartbroken look on his face. Terry looked between the two /"Well I'm afraid Jake hasn't exactly been a great pupil since he got here. But I'm afraid today he was in an altercation with another pupil, although he was defending a friend the school doesn't tolerate this behaviour," Holt /"What's does that mean, you kicking him out, I don't know how this stuff works, his mom handles him, why didn't you call her," Roger said, bored by the /"No Jacob is going spend every recess and lunchtime for the next week outside my office doing work, but this should be taken as a warning, future incidents will result in serious punishment," Holt /"You brought me in to tell me that, it's not my fault he's turned out like this," Roger /"Look Jake isn't a bad kid. He just needs to work on his concentration and self control." Terry /"Ok we'll do that; can we go I've got to get back to work," Roger /"Well yes, you have now been informed, there's nothing else we need to discuss," Holt /"Great, thanks a lot," Roger said getting to his feet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Outside the office, Jake looked at his dad, waiting for him to speak, but Roger just got his phone out his /"Oh dammit, she doesn't want to see me again, all because I left," Roger /"What's the matter?" Jake /"This girl that I was umm at a meeting with, won't have another meeting with me, all because I had to leave and come and get you. What the hell jake, you see what you've done," Roger yelled. He grabbed Jake's wrist and pulled the boy towards him; he then landed 3 hard smack to Jake's backside, causing him to /Jake's eyes filled with /"Come on we're leaving, I'll take you back home to mom then I need to go and sort out this business client," Roger said. "I'm so disappointed in you." He added. And with those 5 words tears flowed from Jake's eyes and his 5 year old heart was broken./p
/div
div class="chapter preface group" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 3em; padding: 0.643em 0.643em 0px; float: none; color: #2a2a2a; border-style: solid initial initial initial;"
div id="chapter_3_endnotes" class="end notes module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.643em; position: relative; width: auto; float: none; clear: right; min-height: 5em;" role="complementary" /div
/div
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Charles Boyle hated the school bus ride in the morning, especially the first 20 minutes before Jake gets on. Seth Dozerman makes his life hell, the bullying had been constant for nearly the whole 3 months they'd been at school. The bus ride is the worst, he steals his food, his money, ruins his homework and books. They were just approaching Jake's stop as Seth continued to launch things at Charles head. Dozerman had never been caught by the bus driver and had mastered the art of bullying without teachers /Charles' heart leapt when he saw /"Hey Jakey, what did you have for breakfast?" He asked excitedly as Jake sat next to /"Oh I didn't have anything I think my Dad must have got back really late and left early or something because he forgot to make me anything," Jake said, with a slight /Dozerman started to launch things at Charles /"Quit it Dozerman!" Jake /"Shut up Peralta, what's it got to do with you," Dozerman taunted, throwing a book at /"Leave Charles alone!" Jake said /"Or you'll do what?" Seth said raising his eyesbrows, then throwing a book at Jake hitting him straight in the /The anger bubbled through Jake and he picked up objects Seth had been throwing and launched them straight back at /"Cut it out back there!" The bus driver /The boys continued in there war, Charles hid behind his /"Peralta sit down!" The bus driver shouted to no /"Peralta is throwing things at me sir and I didn't do anything!" Seth called./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Mr Jeffords was standing at the bus stop waiting for his class. The first bus pulled up and out came Rosa and Gina giggling about something, probably inappropriate. Amy greeted him as she steeped off the bus with a pile of books. Terry then did his daily ritual of going on to the bus to wake up Hitchcock and Scully. Then he returned to his position as he saw the other bus coming down the street. He smiled ready to start the day, but the bus driver looked weird, he kept turning round in his seat and shouting things, looking quite annoyed and panicked. The bus pulled up and the driver opened the doors and motioned for Terry to get on. Once on the bus the scene that met Terry was not what he wanted to see to start the day. Boyle looked like he was close to tears, Jake was launching things at Dozerman, who was subtly taunting him while protecting himself with a /"Enough!" Terry /Jake stopped throwing things and looked towards /"What the hell is going on!" Terry /"Peralta started to attack Seth with books, throwing them even though I kept telling him not to, from what I can see it was unprovoked," the bus driver /"It wasn't, I was protecting Bo-" Jake /"You should not be throwing books at people!" Terry said sternly. "Right everyone go and sit with the rest of the school in assembly, Jake stay where you are, Seth come here please," Terry /The rest of the bus filed out, on his wait Terry felt someone pull his sleeve and saw it was /"Seth started it sir," he /"Ok Thankyou Boyle, go and join everyone else," Terry said, Charles left, leaving Terry and the two boys. He looked between them, Jake was now sulking and sat with a big pout on his face. Dozerman had a cockiness about /"Seth you have a detention for throwing things at Charles Boyle, that is not allowed and I do not want to hear of a repeat of this behaviour!" Terry /"What but Peralta-" Seth started to protest but Terry shot him a look that silenced him. Mr Jeffords pointed out the door and Seth wandered off to /"Jake get your butt down here," he /Jake trudged down to the front of the /"You know not to behave like that, so the only explanation is that Dozerman did something to aggravate you, something so bad, like hurting your best friend. Am I right?" Terry /Jake /"Well personally I don't think I should punish someone for being a good friend, as long as that someone promises they will handle that situation differently in the future and tell an adult?" Terry /Jake looked up and smiled at /"Okay," he /"Right come on assembly," Terry said leading Jake off to join the rest of the school./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mr Jeffords, I was wondering where you'd got to, your class was teacher-less, they are in the hall, assembly just finished," Mr Holt /"Sorry sir, I had to sort an issue on the buses out," Terry /"Trouble?" Holt said raising his eyebrows and glancing at Jake who /"All sorted out now sir," Terry said /"Good, Peralta you have decreased your monthly detention total by 37% in the last month, I do not want to see it go back up. Don't let yourself down," Holt said looking at /"Okay sir," Jake /Holt marched off down the corridor to his /"Come on let's go and get everyone else," Terry said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Right stop talking, Gina!" Terry shouted. Gina shot him a cheeky smile and turned away from Rosa to listen to Mr /"Ok so you're in pairs, Amy, Gina and Rosa you'll have to be a three, and there's a Math worksheet on the desk, I want you to work through it as a group, it incorporates everything we've learnt so far, so hopefully if one of you doesn't understand something the others can explain," Terry /Amy snapped up the worksheet and scanned it, mentally checking she knew the methods for all the /"So do you wanna just do it and me and Gina can talk," Rosa said to /"I'm too pretty for Math," Gina said looking at her /"I mean we're meant to do it as a group so I could show you how, if you wanted?" Amy said, a little nervously. She wrote all three of their names at the top of the sheet. Gina then grabbed it and rewrote her name in neon pink /"Ok then how do you do question one?" Rosa asked, with no enthusiasm in her /Amy grinned, answering questions was her favourite thing. "Ok well..." she began and poured out her knowledge to the two girl. Rosa's eyebrows started to turn from a frown to a slight hint of impressed and Gina even glanced up from her nails from time to time. Amy beamed as she took them through the sheet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Charles had been emotionless all lesson, he hadn't tried to high five Jake once, he was miserable. Jake glared at Dozerman across the /"Charles come on, maybe it's all over now, we finally stood up to him, he won't be mean to you again," Jake /"I don't know Jake, if it's not him there'll be someone else, it always happens to us Boyle boys," Charles sighed /"Ok well if anyone tries to be mean to you I'll protect you!" Jake /Charles' face did light up a bit at this prospect./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Wow Amy you're really smart," Rosa said. Amy /"Yeah Amy you're a massive nerd," Gina /"Aww you guys, Thankyou," Amy /They were the first group to finish and as a treat Terry let them go and get their snacks and start snack time /"Damn Amy you're the best girl," Gina /Amy went to sit in her usual spot, by the /"Yo come sit with us," Rosa called from where she was sitting at the window with /"Yeah look from here you can see all the handsome pe teachers running round on the field," Gina said, staring across the /"Yeah and you can see all the kids failing at sports," Rosa said, laughing as a kid fell at the /Amy sat down with them, she felt special, they weren't teasing her for once, she was being included./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Right guys go and get your snack and then come and get a carton of milk from the front," Terry said, going round the room to collect all the /Charles heart sunk when he remembered Dozerman had taken his food, Jake offered him some Jelly Worms but his pallet couldn't bare the processed sugar chemicals. They sat down with their milk and Jake tried to cheer Charles up by talking about Genevieve, the girl in the year above Charles had a crush on. Just as Boyle started to perk up Dozerman sat opposite them. He was eating Charles' /"Go away Seth," Jake /"No im eating my food, what is this homemade sushi," Seth taunted rubbing his /"Give Charles his food back!" Jake /"No, but I'm actually quite full up," Dozerman said, he then leaned over and tipped the contents of Charles' lunch in the bin. A cry of despair escape Boyle. That was it for Jake, no one messes with Charles, especially not his food. Jake slammed his fist down on his carton of milk and the contents exploded and covered Dozerman, who stood there in shock. The sound silenced the /Terry wandered over, dumbfounded at the scene of a milk covered Dozerman and a open mouthed but very pleased Jake and Boyle's head was just darting back and fourth between the /"Outside," Terry said to Jake, who was trying to suppress his /"Go and stand outside, get in the corridor now!" Terry roared, causing Jake to jump and scurry out the /Charles mopped up the milk while Terry helped Dozerman to clean himself up./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Meanwhile Amy was helping Rosa and Gina with their homework, Gina had even offered Amy an invite to her birthday party, she did spend 20 minutes talking in depth about the presents she wanted though. But Amy was happy, maybe school wasn't just about work./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"20 minutes after the incident Terry settled the class down and got them to do some silent reading or in Gina's case drawing as she didn't want to read about other people she just wanted to draw herself. He then decided he better go and deal with /The young boy was slouched against the wall, still obviously /"Get off the wall!" Terry said crossing his arms as he closed the door behind /Jake stood up /"I am so annoyed with you, did you not listen to what I said to you this morning, you didn't even make it until lunchtime," Terry said /Jake's proudness faded and he stared at the /"Sorry," he /"Well now you can join Dozerman in detention. You need to get Charles to come and speak to a teacher about this bullying we can't do anything unless he tells us, because at the moment all we're seeing is you lashing out," Terry /Jake nodded and followed Terry back inside./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Lunchtime came and Amy, Gina and Rosa sat together, they were laughing and joking. Busy creating a girl gang, Amy was taking notes of everything Rosa and Gina mentioned. Jake was busy talking to Charles, they had decided to report Dozerman but Charles wanted to eat the lunch that Jake had bought for him /Dozerman wandered over to them, Charles braced himself for attack and Jake tensed /"Hey Boyle what's this?" Seth said holding up a bag full of the remainder of Boyles food he'd stolen this /"Ah come on Seth, please that my favourite, my Dad only makes that once a month," pleaded Charles his eyes fixed on the /"Give it back to him Seth," Jake /"But I don't want to," Dozerman replied, he then swiped Charles' tray of the food Jake had bought him off the table, sending it crashing to the floor. Jake stood up ready to fight but, managed to restrain /"Back off!" Jake /Seth pushed Boyle who fell back off his seat onto the /"Hey Boyle maybe I should give your lunch to Jake considering he's never had a lunch made by a dad before!" Seth teased. As soon as the words left Seth's mouth something in Jake clicked. A mixture of anger and sadness flowed through his veins and propelled him towards Dozerman, his fist colliding with Seth's nose. The two wrestled on the /"Fight. Fight. Fight!" Gina chanted, Rosa joining /The on duty teacher ran off the get assistance. Seth punched Jake in the chest and they rolled around on the floor as Jake kicked furiously at Dozerman landing a good punch to his jaw./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mr Jeffords! Mr Jeffords! There's a fight in the cafeteria. Jake Peralta and Seth Dozerman are punching the living daylights out of eachother!" Mrs Brookes said charging into the staff room. Mr Jeffords huffed and got to his /"Bring them straight to my office," Mr Holt /Terry nodded and charged down the corridor to the cafeteria. He could hear the chanting as he got close. Mrs Brookes hurried along beside /"I didn't see how it started," she /"I can imagine what went on," Terry said. He burst through the doors and the chanting ceased apart from /"No don't stop just cause Jeffords is here," she /Terry rushed forward and tried to pull the two boys apart but both were adamant to get the last punch in. He managed finally to hand Seth to Mrs Brookes and keep a hold of Jake. Jake was struggling furiously trying to get to Dozerman, there were tears in the boy's eyes, Terry had never seen this side to Jake. That happy, go lucky, cheeky, class clown was nowhere to be seen. Instead he was having to restrain this young boy who was so full of sadness and anger, struggling to manage the velocity of his own /"Calm down, calm down!" Terry soothed and Jake twisted and turned in his grip. He motioned to Mrs Brookes to take Seth up to the /Jake had stilled and Terry loosened his grip, grabbing the boy's hand and leading him out of the room, all eyes still on /Mr Jeffords looked down at Jake as they walked to the office, a single tear slid down his cheek but Jake wiped it away hurriedly. He knew the kid was in trouble but he wanted to help him, something was going on that Jake wasn't saying./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"They got to the office and the door was open, Dozerman was already sat in front of Holts /"Come in Mr Jeffords," Holt /Terry sat down in the chair with Dozerman to his left and then Jake sat in the chair to his /"We'll do you have anything to say Peralta. Mrs Brookes said it was you who threw the first punch. I've heard Dozerman's side of the story, his account indicates that you instigated the fight and he fought back in self defence. He also said that this is the third time today you have attacked him," Holt said /Jake just shrugged and stared at the /"Sir can I talk to you for a minute?" Mr Jeffords /"Boys there are 4 chairs outside my door, please go and reside in one, do not talk to each other and any fighting will result in severe punishment," Holt said. Jake and Dozerman /"This isn't really Peralta's fault, Dozerman has been bullying Charles, all the incidents today have been Jake trying to protect his friend," Terry /"I see. He has still attacked a pupil on 3 different occasions, we do not tolerate violence in the school, just one of those occurrences would usually have resulted in suspension," Holt /"I know he did wrong, I'm not saying don't punish him. I'm just saying I should have stepped in earlier with the bullying, Jake was just protecting his friend and taking matters into his own hands. Dozerman is the one who needs reprimanding," Terry /Holt's expression neither indicated that he agreed or disagreed with what had been said but he called both boys back /"Dozerman, it would seem you instigated the fights, maybe not physically, but. verbally. Bullying is not tolerated in this school, you are suspended for 2 weeks, go and sit back outside my office my secretary will call your mother to come and collect you," Holt said, a smile appearing across Terry's face. Dozerman got up, Holt left no room for argument so he had to /"Oh and leave Charles Boyle alone, if I hear of any incidents you will be out of this school for good," Holt /He turned back to Jake, who was sat tapping his fingers /"You haven't made the best of starts Peralta, your behaviour has been highlighted from the very first day, something I thought was starting to improve. Then you decide to get into fights, 3 in one day. The school does not tolerate violence, although you had a valid reason to be angry, you must not retaliate to antagonists. This cannot go unpunished, I'm going to call you father and have him come in to discuss today's events," Holt /The look of horror spread across Jake's face /"Please don't call my dad, please!" Jake begged tears starting to well up in his /"I'm afraid Mr Peralta, I have to, you need to know your behaviour was wrong and your parents need to know what's been going on," Holt said. "Now go and sit outside while we wait for your father to arrive,"br /Jake slumped down in the seat, Dozerman sat staring at the floor in silence. Jake brought his knees up to his chest and buried his head in them as his tears began to flow. His dad was going to be so disappointed, Jake knew how busy he was and now he was having to come and pick him up. Maybe his Mom might come instead, he hoped. Jake cried and cried, Terry came out and called Dozerman's parents. The sobbing Jake caught his attention before he dialled for Roger /"Please don't call my dad!" Jake /Terry crouched down in front on the big placing his hand on Jake's /"Hey buddy it's ok, your Dads just coming in for a chat," Terry comforted, but it's only led to another sob from /"He's going to be so disappointed in me," Jake cried /"Well I'm afraid we have to do this, the best thing you can do is be on your best behaviour from now on, I'm sure your dad would be so proud of you if you could do that," Terry /Jake just buried his head in his hands, Terry sighed and went to make the call./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"A little while later Dozerman's parents arrived, they went into Holts office and emerged minutes later, Dozerman was sobbing as his mother lectured how they'd never been so ashamed. Jake's tears only started to fall more as the anticipation of his dads arrival grew. Gina and Charles walked by on their way to gym, they each gave him a big hug. Gina even managed to calm him down and stop him crying, promising Jake she would help him no matter what his dad did./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The secretary's phone /"Mr Holt, Roger Peralta is in reception!" She /"Send him down," Holt /Jake's lip quivered. Moments later the doors at the end of the corridor burst /"What the hell Jake! I play catch with you for 10 minutes on the weekend and this is how you repay me." Roger Peralta shouted marching towards Jake. "I was really busy, I was in the middle of a date, I mean I was in the middle of work!" He /"I'm really sorry dad," Jake pleased his eyes welling /"I was in a meeting and if that person doesn't want to see me again because I had to leave, I'm getting rid of your Die Hard DVD," Roger /"Mr Peralta, if you'd like to come in to my office I can explain today's incidents," Holt /They sat down opposite Holt, Jake's staring at his father, observing his facial expressions with a heartbroken look on his face. Terry looked between the two /"Well I'm afraid Jake hasn't exactly been a great pupil since he got here. But I'm afraid today he was in an altercation with another pupil, although he was defending a friend the school doesn't tolerate this behaviour," Holt /"What's does that mean, you kicking him out, I don't know how this stuff works, his mom handles him, why didn't you call her," Roger said, bored by the /"No Jacob is going spend every recess and lunchtime for the next week outside my office doing work, but this should be taken as a warning, future incidents will result in serious punishment," Holt /"You brought me in to tell me that, it's not my fault he's turned out like this," Roger /"Look Jake isn't a bad kid. He just needs to work on his concentration and self control." Terry /"Ok we'll do that; can we go I've got to get back to work," Roger /"Well yes, you have now been informed, there's nothing else we need to discuss," Holt /"Great, thanks a lot," Roger said getting to his feet./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Outside the office, Jake looked at his dad, waiting for him to speak, but Roger just got his phone out his /"Oh dammit, she doesn't want to see me again, all because I left," Roger /"What's the matter?" Jake /"This girl that I was umm at a meeting with, won't have another meeting with me, all because I had to leave and come and get you. What the hell jake, you see what you've done," Roger yelled. He grabbed Jake's wrist and pulled the boy towards him; he then landed 3 hard smack to Jake's backside, causing him to /Jake's eyes filled with /"Come on we're leaving, I'll take you back home to mom then I need to go and sort out this business client," Roger said. "I'm so disappointed in you." He added. And with those 5 words tears flowed from Jake's eyes and his 5 year old heart was broken./p
/div
div class="chapter preface group" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 3em; padding: 0.643em 0.643em 0px; float: none; color: #2a2a2a; border-style: solid initial initial initial;"
div id="chapter_3_endnotes" class="end notes module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.643em; position: relative; width: auto; float: none; clear: right; min-height: 5em;" role="complementary" /div
/div