Part A:
I sat down next to Iola.
"What happened when you were 8-years-old that you have to have bodyguards the rest of your life?" Callie asked.
"It happened three days after my 8th birthday. We were at the river on the Res. Nobody saw the man in the woods. We were playing water football in the river. Fawn & Tommy were on my team & Buffalo Dancer & Natasha were on Maria's team. It was hot; 125 degrees out & we all went to the river with a football & started to play. There was so much noise that we never heard the man pull the trigger until too late. I woke up a year later. The doctors told me I had been shot 10x in the chest, 10x in the back, & 5x in the head. They only took 24 of the 25 bullets out of my body. The 25th one is still lodged 10" in my heart. They told me that if it was ever removed, I'd bleed to death & no one, not even the doctors, could do anything. That's one of the reasons why my name is at the top of the Donor List. I got over it & three weeks later I back at school. I've also been in the hospital since then & kind of got an agreement going with criminals & I don't really remember why I did it," I ended.