A/N; No you're not mistaken, I am actuallyupdating quickly like I said I was going to but this chapter was kind of easy to write and not just because it's kind of short. However I have updated and I going to try and keep this up and like update every Mondayor so, but don't fully hold me to that...I'm going to try. Anyway do what you do and read, review, favorite follow all that good stuff and thank you guys so much for the great comments they really inspire me to write more. So if you guys want to see anything or don't want to see anything let me know and I'll make it happen. i am a writer of the people, your comments influence what I write so let me know.
Chapter 13
"But we didn't even do anything!" Sasha cried out, slightly pleading with the office assistant who sat across from not just one but all four of the Helmsley daughters at her desk.
Each girl sat in the chairs in the main office waiting for the principal to call one of their parents. Sasha was complaining the whole time, trying desperately to find an adult that would sympathize with the siblings. However the cry seemed to fall on deaf ears as many of the office workers simply just walked passed the girls, ignoring them. Becky sat in the chair beside her holding an inhaler tightly in her hand as she struggled to breathe. Bayley leaned against Charlotte with tears in her eyes as her face was pushed into her oldest sister's side while Charlotte glared hard at Sasha and Rebecca, with one good eye as she held an ice pack to the right side of her face.
"Are you people even listening" Sasha nearly screamed before she spoke again, "I SAID…"
"Sasha!"
All four of the girl's heads turned towards the main entrance where Hunter and Stephanie stood. Hunter was still dressed for work with a black suit and tie while Stephanie wore a black, tight, dress and both looked pissed.
"Crap" Charlotte and Sasha both muttered at the same time, Becky was too focused on getting her breathing under control but the anxiety she felt in this situation made her chest ache more than ever and Bayley was still crying into Charlotte's side.
"Mrs and Mr Helmsley, thank you for getting here so quickly." Principal Donnelly said as he came out of his office and greeted the girls parents, "As you can see your daughters have been quite restless"
"What is all of this about?" Hunter asked
"Why don't we all go into my office and we can have the girls explain what happened"
With that the two followed behind the principal with angry looks on their faces while the four girls slowly got up and walked behind them.
"Why did they both show up...they never both show up" Sasha whispered
"Well they never had all four of us in trouble at once" Charlotte said with her arm still around Bayley whose face was now uncovered, revealing a busted lip.
"I-I c….can't breathe" Becky said slowly, taking big gasps as she spoke
Sasha looked at her younger sister concerned, before grabbing the girl's hand to comfort her. This was all Naomi and Tamina's fault, they hurt her sisters and she couldn't do anything to stop them, if anything they should be in here not the other way around.
"You all can have a seat, I had my assistant bring in enough chairs for all of you, but we've never had such a large group in here at once" Principal Donnelly said as he cleared his throat, "As you were informed over the phone your daughters were involved in an incident on school campus"
"Yes and would you like to explain how all four of my girls were involved in a fight only thirty minutes into school" Stephanie said sounding more annoyed than angry
"Well I'll let them tell you what happened"
With that Sasha, Charlotte and Bayley began talking all at once while Becky leaned down in her chair trying to steady her breathing with her hands covering her ears. Stephanie looked back at the principal before silencing her girls with the raise of her hand. She stepped forward to each of them and looked over the girls, she grabbed Charlotte's face and tilted it up to see that there was a black ring forming around her right eye. Then she did same with Bayley who let silent tears fall from her eyes as she stared at her mother.
"What happened baby girl?"
"No, let me tell it!" Sasha said loudly only to earn a harsh glare from her mother
Hunter moved over to the girls as well and placed a hand on Becky's back trying to comfort the girl as he spoke low for only her to hear while Stephanie once again told Bayley to tell what happened.
Two hours ago
"Girls, you need to be downstairs in ten minutes before you miss the bus!" Hunter yelled from downstairs
Bayley was sitting at the island eating a bowl of Lucky Charms as she read the back of the box, well at least looked at the pictures and games they had on it. She was dressed in a light blue shirt and a pair of overalls and a bright pink headband held her ponytail back. Becky came downstairs with her goggles over her eyes and an olive green shirt under a blue jean button up left open and a pair of black jeans. She smiled at Hunter who ruffled her hair as she walked by before coming into the kitchen and grabbing a banana.
"You need to get something more than that Rebecca" Stephanie said as she walked through the kitchen and kissed both of them on their cheeks, "The doctor says you need to be eating more to get your weight back to normal"
"I know you've already told me a thousand times..and I am eatin' I'm just never hungry in the mornin's"
Stephanie placed a plate of bacon and pancakes in front of the girls, "Eat and take your goggles off at the table, you've already said that you don't need them"
"Yea but that doesn' mean that they're not cool"
"What do you girls have going on at school today?" Hunter asked as he grabbed a jug of water from the fridge
"We have the spelling bee today and the kindergarten rainbow friends days is on friday" Bayley said with a mouth full of cereal
"What is that?"
"It's the-"
"Sasha get out of the bathroom!" Charlotte shouted from upstairs
Hunter and Stephanie looked at each other before Hunter quickly said, "Not it"
Stephanie rolled her eyes and-
"Bayley, sweetie, we don't need to start the story from all the way back there...you can just start from when you got to school" Hunter said causing Bayley to look and then think
"Here uh, let me tell the story or we may never get out of here" Charlotte said, placing the ice pack back on her eye
Thirty minutes ago
"Why do you always drop me off at my class first, I want to go to the playground too" Bayley whined as she held Charlotte's hand
" 'Cause you're too little" Sasha said with a smirk as she skipped around her sisters with a certain spring in her step
The girl's walked passed the front office and the car rider's lot as they weaved their way through the crowd of kids filling into the school. Charlotte ignored her sister's banter as she continued to bring her sister to the kindergarten hall.
"Hey Becky!" All of the girls turned around to see Sami getting out of a car and rushing over to them. He wore a grey long sleeved shirt and jeans with a cabby hat
"Sami..hey" Becky said with a small smile while Sasha and Charlotte stared at the boy hard
"Ooooohhh Becky's got a boyfriend" Bayley said under her breath
"Boyfriend?" Hunter asked causing Bayley to stop her story
"He's not a boyfriend and Ya don' need to tell that part either Bayley, just skip to when those girls jumps us" Becky said having finally gotten her breathing together with several pumps of her inhaler
"She's not here yet" Charlotte said as she peeked into the door that led to the kindergarten hall to see the empty and dark hall
Bayley crossed her arms and gave out a sigh before saying, "Yea, that's 'cause all the kids are on the playground...how come you never let me go too. They open the playground before school so kids can play on it not so they can go to class cause their older sister says so"
"Bayley, now I know you're smart so I know you understand that I'm doing this to protect you. Some kids can be mean and I don't want Naom….I uh, I don't want anyone to mess with you" Charlotte said
"Nobody's gonna mess with me"
"Yeah, I'm not so sure about that" Charlotte muttered but after a couple minutes standing there, Charlotte gave in and walked the girl back to the playground where Sasha and Becky ran off to.
"You don't worry about Sasha and Becky as much as you do me" Bayley said in a pointed voice
"Yes I do...it's just that you're my baby sister….you remind me of my old family...all of you do. You guys are my family and I will not lose you all"
"You know you can't protect me forever" Bayley said in a low tone as they walked across the school
"I can try" Charlotte said, "Your my little sister, and I love you. As your older sister it's my job to protect you, to protect all of you"
"Well then let me tell ya blonde" Both girls turned around to see Naomi and Tamina standing with their arms crossed, "We're here to make tht job a little bit harder.
Charlotte groaned. She knew it, she knew that as soon as she brought Bayley out to the playground this would happen. She always kept the youngest away from the playground or any area where these two could ever harm her. They always picked on her and Sasha, everyday and she never let Bayley know about any of that. She had managed to keep Becky away them as well for the week or so that she had been going here as neither Naomi nor Tamina had shown their faces but she knew eventually they would return.
"Looky here...see I knew she had another sister, T...and this must be the little runt"
"Hey I'm not a runt"
"Oh I'm sorry...is the two year old speaking to me...man I didn't even know that you knew how to speak." Naomi said with a smile, "Now Charlotte I think we know the drill by now don't we?"
"I don't have anything to give you" Charlotte said angrily. There was no way she was going to give up her lunch with Bayley standing right there, she was her big sister she wasn't going to look weak.
"well then we'll just check for ourselves won't we, and if you're lying to me then you're dumber than your sister here"
"I'll have you know that I'm smarter than you" Bayley said with a huff
"Shut up runt" Tamina said before pushing the small girl down and taking her bag as Naomi snatched Charlotte's bag as well.
"Don't tell her to shut up" Charlotte said as she went to reach for Bayley's bag from Tamina but the girl just held it out of the blonde's reach.
Charlotte reached again but was pushed to the ground beside Bayley. As she struggled to get up, she saw both Tamina and Naomi dumping out each bag until the found Bayley's lunchbox and five dollars in Charlotte's bag which was given to her for lunch money.
"You were holding out on us….my girl T don't like that very much" Naomi said before kicking Charlotte causing her to lay in a more fetal position.
"Charlotte!" Bayley yelled as Tamina threw a punch across the girl's face
"Shut it runt or you're next" Naomi said as she went to throw another punch but was stopped as she felt the weight of Bayley across her back and arm, "get off of me you little brat"
Naomi flung her arm out, hitting Bayley square in the mouth as she managed to get the girl off of her while Tamina was still punching away at Charlotte. This went on for a couple more minutes before Charlotte saw a blur of orange jump on Tamina, pulling the girl up and away from her. Once Charlotte could see she looked up and saw Tamina struggling with Becky on her back with her arms clutching around the girl's neck while Naomi and Sasha had gotten into a shoving match.
"Ugh you Helmsleys are like roaches" Tamina yelled before she finally managed to toss Becky off of her before giving a small stomp to the girl's chest.
Naomi however was losing her battle with Sasha as the younger girl knocked Naomi to the ground. Tamina went to help Naomi but was stopped as she felt something grab her leg, only to look down and see Becky dragging her leg back. Tamina gave an annoyed groan before she picked Becky up by her shirt and held her a little above ground.
"You're new here so I gonna give you the benefit of the doubt but here's some advice. When I hit you….. stay down" Tamina growled and went to punch Becky but was stopped as Sasha was now on the girl's back.
Tamina tried grabbing at Sasha but struggled as Becky wrapped her arm and body around Tamina's opposite arm. She let out and annoyed yell and went to knock both girls off but she as well as all of the other girls stopped as they heard an adult clearing their throat.
"What is going on here?" Ms. James, the playground monitor said
Tamina finally threw the girls off of her and went to help Naomi up before saying, "These girls attacked Naomi and then me…..we were only defending ourselves"
"And that's what happened" Charlotte said ending the story there as everyone knew where the rest of the story was going.
"So you brought my girls in here for defending themselves?" Stephanie asked pointedly
"They attack other students…"
"The other two girls were not physically harmed from what I heard. My girls just jumped on their backs while the girl was beating their sister"
"They wrongly handled the situation, in a case where there is an altercation the students are required to tell an adult"
"We did" Becky said before going back into the story
Twenty Minutes Ago
"And then Kevin said.. he was getting all cracked up" Sami said before laughing loudly at his own joke but he was only met with silence from Sasha, Becky and Kevin. Sasha because she didn't like the boy as wasn't listening to a word he was saying while Becky just didn't understand the joke and Kevin had heard it a million times already, "What?"
"Dude that jokes not funny anymore" Kevin said, slapping Sami on the back, jerking him forward.
"What..no I-I...it was funny...right Becky?"
"Maybe...I didn' really understand it" Becky said smiling softly at the boy who thought for a second before he went off into another rant.
Becky felt something hit her side, she turned and looked at Sasha to see her staring over Sami's shoulder, "Look"
Over Sami's shoulder Becky could see two girls standing over a blonde and a young girl to which she immediately noticed as Bayley, "What's going on?"
At this Sami and kevin turned around to look as well and it only took a second for Sasha to take off running in that direction, "what's happening?"
"Sami...go get a teacher okay, tell here there's a fight happening on the playground" with that Becky went after Sasha and rushed over to her sister.
The closer she got the more she could see what was happening, Sasha was wrestling with the shorter of the two girls, Bayley was on the ground crying and a tall girl threw her first punch at Charlotte. Becky took off running faster, pushing herself a little too hard but not enough to cause any pain and as she did she noticed a picnic table behind the tall Samoan girl and she began to climb it before launching herself onto the bigger girl's back.
"See.. I told Sami to go get help, I didn't go myself because my sisters needed me but we did tell a teacher" Becky said
"Alright so first they were attacked, then they told a teacher and yet I only see my girls in here. Where are the two that gave my oldest a black eye and my youngest a busted lip?" Stephanie said leaning over the principal's desk with slight anger rising in her voice, "Did you call their parents, where they questioned and punished for what they did because from what I have heard my girls were not in the wrong here"
"Okay I understand your frustration mrs. Helmsley but I-"
"Oh you haven't even seen my frustration"
"Mrs. Helmsley it is well known that there is a strict policy against fighting at Creekside and your girls were involved in one and frankly with this just being Rebecca's first month here it is not going to reflect well with social services." Principal Donnelly said, setting Stephanie off a little which Hunter and the girls noticed right away as a smile appeared on her face and she twisted her head to the side to crack her neck
"Well thank you for that knowledge, you know I loved to be enlightened and as an educator I would assume that you do as well, so let me enlighten you on something. I can buy and sell your ass and this entire school with the snap of my finger so don't you dare, ever, threaten me and my family with the idea of calling social services on me. Especially in an instance where my girls were the victims. I could take those girls, their parents, your ass and this entire school to court and have them seriously investigate this case as self defense and have them charge you and the school with child neglect because you are trying to victim blame my children when they are the ones with the cuts to prove themselves. However seeing as how your suit is more than likely from the clearance rack at Macy's i'm sure that you wouldn't want that, let alone be able to afford the case." Stephanie said in a very strict and low voice, causing everyone to stare at her with wide eyes, "Now...I would like for those girls to be punished appropriately before I handle the situation myself and I-"
"W-w-well as a...as a first offense t-the-"
"W-w-w-well" Stephanie mimicked the man harshly causing him to shrink in his chair a little, "I may not be a psychologist or an expert on situations like this but I am more than sure that these girls wouldn't just out of the blue attack and beat on my girls if this was their first altercation. Girls how long have these two been bothering you all?"
"For about a year now, they go around picking on everyone in grades younger than third" Sasha said with more confidence as she understood that her mother was no longer angry at them, but more so angry at their principal
"Well if these girls have been bullying you all why haven't you spoken up?" Hunter asked
"Everyone speaks, up but the teachers don't believe us because they see the older kids as model students, and we are supposed to be seperated from them so they don't know how they could hurt us" Charlotte commented
"Yeah they don't seem to understand the concept of the open playground in the mornings and afternoon" Sasha said
"Have you reported any other cases of bullying principal Donnelly?" Stephanie asked and as the man went to speak she cut him off, "I'm not actually asking, this is more for you to sit and think on…"
"Uh...okay"
"How many times have younger students been seen or sent to the nurse? How many times have your teachers mentioned their student talking about bullying? How many times have you blankly sweeped a serious issue under the rug for the sake of the school's reputation?"
"I never-"
"Sit and think Mr. Donnelly...sit and think" Stephanie said before motioning for the girls to stand, "We'll be leaving now, I suggest you go ahead and call those girls parents and have a talk about their suspension"
"Suspending those girl will-"
"Be a perfect punishment for the harm they have done to the students here at Creekside. Yes I know mr. Donnelly...you this...is what I call problem solving. Now have a good day" Stephanie finished by ushering her family out and closing the door behind them, then headed to the car in silence
"Mom...are you mad at us?" Bayley asked
Stephanie smiled down at her girls and shook her head, "no I'm not...you all protected each other, like a family. I'm proud of you all"
"Yeah but we might need to get you girls into some self defense classes because jumping on someone's back is not the best way to take down an person as big as me" Hunter said with a smile causing the girls to laugh before Sasha jumped on Hunter's back
"You never know...we could probably take you" Sasha smiled as Hunter position her so she was resting on his shoulders and Charlotte was walking slowly beside him.
"How is your chest baby girl..from the story it sounded like you took a pretty rough stomp to your chest?" Stephanie asked Becky
"I'm fine, but that definitely hurt" She replied as she rubbed her slightly bruised chest
"Don't worry Bex, we'll take them next time.. We'll be like a tag team duo" Sasha said laughing
"Let's get you girls in some self defense classes first" Hunter said as they made it to the car
"Yeah, I'll' call my brother and set up something" Stephanie said, placing Bayley in her car seat and helping Becky into the seat in the back
"Shane?"
"Yeah you know he has that gym downtown, he teaches people all kinds of stuff: karate, self defense, martial arts, wrestling, you name it. I sure he'll be more than happy to teach the girls"
A/N: Yep Shane is getting added in, and he is going to teach the girls self defense, please comment on who you think should stick it out with Shane and possibly learn some martial arts and maybe even...wrestling ;) again thanks guys, review, favorite, follow and all that good stuff and I'll see you next time