"Morning, Aunt Esther," I yawned, still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.

"Morning dear. Sleep well?" She smiled while baking some bread.

"Yeah, I'm sorry I overslept, I didn't mean to sleep in like I did."

"It's ok, I told the kids to try and be quiet while they were getting ready so it wouldn't disturb you. I thought you could use the rest since you had such a long day."

"Thank you. So where is everyone?"

"Mayor and Jacob both went to their jobs, Les is in school, and Sarah went over to the Petersons house to sit with their children."

"Hmm, um I don't have to, but if you wouldn't mind, could I go outside for awhile and maybe look around. I wouldn't venture off to far, just around here?" She took a moment before answering, I was secretly begging for her to say yes.

"I don't see why not, just be careful of who you talk to."

"I will, thank you," I gave her a hug before rushing out the door," she laughed at my outburst, and went back to her cooking.

As I was walking down the streets, I took in all my surroundings. Street vendors filled the streets, trying to get customers to buy there product every time someone walked by. I had been walking a while and pulled out my watch to see I've been out here for over an hour already. As I turned down another street, I saw three girls surrounding two boys. I walked a little closer to see what was going on. The girls defiantly looked upper class, "so what are they doing here?"

I caught of a bit of the conversation. "Well, lookie here Sally, it's the colored boy and gimpy." The one named Sally, pushed the one with the crutch and he fell to the ground, holding his leg. "Aww, did the gimp fall down, and hurt himself."

"Are these your papers?" "To bad," the first girl Alice grabbed the papers out of his hands and tore them into shreds." "Come on girls, let's get out of here, before we catch some disease," she turned up her nose and they started to leave, but I quickly intervened.

I swallowed my fears and marched over to the group. I looked at the one named Alice, who looked at me with disgust like she had done with the guys. "I think you should pay him for those papers that you just ruined," I said angrily. The boys looked at me with surprise and then looked back at the girls waiting for their response.

"Do you know who you're talking to, scum," she replied haughtily, while the other two girls laughed. I clenched my fists at my side, trying to remain calm, but this girl, and her friends were driving my patience. "Apologize to them," I tried again.

"Let's go, we don't have to take this," Sally retorted.

They started to turn around to leave when Alice called over her shoulder, "we better not ever catch you talking to us that way again. I tapped Alice on her back, "what do you....umph," I punched her in the jaw knocking her to the ground. The whole group looked at Alice and quickly back at me stunned at what just happened. I looked at my fist surprised myself. I had never in my life punched someone, heck, I've never been this brave before either. I smiled, that had felt pretty good.

The other girls helped Alice to her feet, actually looking fearful. "You know Alice, you're right. I wouldn't ever want to speak to any of you again, but my fist sure would. Come back sometime, and we can have a nice chat," I smirked at the looks on their faces, and they quickly ran off.

"I can't believe you just did that."