Jamie sat on the couch, when the phone rang. "Hello?.No, he's not available but this is Mrs. Carter.Yes. You sent a note?.I will.Thank you." Jamie waited for Lily to come home, who had just started preschool a month earlier. Lily came in, singing a child's song. Jamie waited, to see if she would confess.
"Hi honey, how was preschool?"
"Fine. I'm gonna go play now." She started up the stairs. "Wait!" commanded Jamie.
"What mommy?"
"Do you have anything to give me?" Lily froze. She wasn't going to give her the note, but- No. "No mommy."
"Lily, give me the note Mrs. Polio sent." Lily gasped before she could stop herself. "But mommy-,"
"No buts," She held out her hand, "Give me the note Inow/I Lily!"

"I threw it away." Jamie sighed, and started toward Lilly. "Give me your backpack, and pull out all your pockets." Lily pulled out all her pockets. "Can I go now?"
"You wait until I search your backpack," replied Jamie and zipped it open. As soon as she opened it, a piece of folded yellow paper fell out. Jamie opened it to read:

b I Dear To Whom It May Concern:

Lilly and a couple of different individuals have been tormenting a child of their age in their classes. They have been hitting and shouting disgracing and very disturbing comments at the certain individual. We are sending a warning to all participants in this taunting. If it continues, they will be severely punished with suspension and/or expulsion. Thank you,

Sandra Polio John Jefferson
Teacher Principal

"Oh dear," breathed Jamie. "Lily, sit down." Lily went, slowly, to the couch and sank in. "Who have you been making fun of Lily?"
"Jennifer."
"Why?" Jamie asked. Lily squirmed in her seat and shrugged her shoulder. "Lily, you know why you made fun of Jennifer. Why?"
"Because she always just sits there readin' Dr. Seuss, or lookin' at the sky, and she's always by herself. She's an outcast." Jamie almost fainted at the last sentence. She was an outcast in high school. "Hunny, I'm going to tell you a story. In high school I was an outcast. They played cruel jokes, and it was not fun. Your daddy used to play some mean jokes on me too. But then he saw how it hurt me and stopped. You should try to think of how it hurts her. What exactly did you do to her?"
Lily was reluctant to answer but eventually did. "We would trip her and she would get a bloody knee and one time her tooth fell out. And we call her dumb, and stupid, and how weird she looks."
"Well, how would you like that? I think for a whole day, starting tomorrow, I'm going to have me, your dad, Faith, and Jeremy do those things to you and see how you like it. What's tomorrow Faith!" yelled Jamie down the hallway.
"SATURDAY!" Faith screamed back.
"Perfect," replied Jamie. "We'll do that tomorrow." Lily frowned. That didn't sound like much fun. She didn't want to! "NO!" screamed Lily, "I DON'T WANT TO!" she yelled, throwing a tantrum and throwing her self onto the floor. Jamie picked up her feet and started to drag her up the stairs. "Ow - Mom - that - hurts!" she screamed as she hit each step. Jamie dragged the crying child to her room and closed the door. She heard a scream of rage as she did it. Suddenly the phone rang.
"I'LL GET IT!" screamed Faith. "Kaylie?" she asked, "Oh sorry, hold on, my mom is home. MOM!" Jamie picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Hi, is this Mrs. Carter?" asked a deep voice.
"Yes it is, who is this?"
"This is officer Holey."

"Oh! Has he been found?"
"That's what I called about. Mike is in South Carolina. Charleston, to be exact. Would you like to pick him up or wait a day for us to deliver him?"
"We'll pick him up! So we just go to Charleston PD?"
"Yes ma'am," he said politely.
"Thank you! Thank you!" gushed Jamie. "It's no problem ma'am," he said humbly, "Good bye now."
"Bye!" she said, putting the phone on the jack. She picked the phone up again to call the hospital. "Dr. Carter please.Yes, I'll hold.Thank you." She waited, tapping nervously on the end table as she often did. "Hello?" came on the familiar voice that warmed her soul instantly.
"Landon, it's me. They found Michael. We have to go right now and go get him. He's in Charleston."
"South Carolina?!?! How did he get all the way down there?" he asked angrily. He thought of how much trouble he was going to be in.
"I don't know, well, just get home!"
"Yes ma'am!" he said jokingly, acting like a soldier. "Well, I'll see you when you get home," Jamie said lovingly. "Bye."
"Bye." Jamie hung up the phone and looked for Faith. "Faith?" she asked, poking her head through her daughter's room. "Yay mom?" said a voice coming from the closet. She emerged, looking like she as going out on the town. "What are you doing?" asked Jamie as she sat onto the floral patterned bed.
"I'm going out with my friends, remember?" Faith searched her face. Something was different. "What is it mom?"
"Well, we have to drive to Charleston to get Michael."
"He is found?" squealed Faith. "Can I go?"
"Well," started Jamie, "I was hoping you would stay home with Lily and Jeremy." Faith's eyes quickly dulled. "Oh," she replied, "Sure, I guess. But I was going out."
"How about 40 bucks. Do we have a deal?" Faith readily agreed and called her friends to cancel. As soon as she put down the phone, she declared she was free to baby-sit now.
Soon there were sounds in the driveway and soon Landon appeared, giving Jamie a quick kiss. "Family meeting first," she interrupted in mid- kiss.
"FAMILY MEETING!" she screamed up the stairs. Soon they were all gathered in the living room. "First of all, we are going today to get Michael. Jeremy and Lily, Faith will be watching you. Second, tomorrow we are all going to play jokes and call Lily names. For a while, it seems, has been doing that to other people." Jamie handed the note to Landon, and as soon as he was done reading gave a sharp look to Lily. "This," he said, pointing to the note, "is not good Lily." Changing the subject, he said, "Shall we go Jamie?" Jamie nodded and they went toward the door. "Be good!" called out Jamie, "Don't get into trouble!" With that, they were off.

A/N : Review PLEASE.. I know I say this every time but I mean it every time LOL.