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Chapter 4.
1st quarter is over. Steve looks at the small stack of report cards on his desk.
Kale doesn't get a report card, but Steve knows his grades are above average.
Alex is doing well in most subjects, her physics grade is a little lower than she would have liked, but it's ok.
Lili is above average in everything. Except history. Steve found notes left by the teacher.
-Lili needs to pay attention and stop drawing in her textbooks.
Steve makes a note to himself to talk to her about it later.
Eke could be doing better in school, but his grade are average and he's not failing anything.
Ollie has good grades. He's advanced, and finds 1st grade easy.
"What's on your face?" Steve asks. Lili is sitting on the couch.
"It's makeup." Lili returns, not even looking up from her drawing.
"I've never seen you wear makeup." Steve says.
"You've known me for what, 2 weeks?" Lili says.
"It's the first time you've worn makeup in those 2 weeks."
"So?" Lili asks.
"You don't own any makeup." Steve remembers.
"So I'm wearing my sister's. Why do you care about this?" Lili asks, visibly getting angry.
"You claimed makeup was a waste of time and self-esteem 3 days ago." Steve suddenly recalls.
"I changed my mind."
"You're hiding something." Steve takes a step towards her.
"Back off." Lili warns. Steve takes a step back, and Lili takes the chance to dash out of the room.
Steve hid all of Alex's makeup. Lili took up wearing sunglasses.
Steve watches as Lili is about to open the door. She's wearing the sunglasses again and she's just getting home from school. Steve crouches beside the doorway, ready to strike. Lili opens the door, completely unsuspecting. As soon as she opens the door, Steve shoots up and pulls the glasses off her face.
Steve stares into the bruised face of Lili Kahananui.
"What?" Steve asks.
Lili backs out the door slowly. She tries to keep moving backwards, but her siblings are behind her.
"Who did this?" Steve asks.
"Nikki Lupeforte. Who else?" Eke says, as if everybody knows the bully messing with the kids.
Apparently, everybody doesn't.
"Nikki who?" Kale asks.
"Somebody's bulling you?" Alex asks.
"What?" Steve asks.
"She doesn't dare touch me or Ollie. She knows that would be Lili's last straw." Eke says.
"Last straw?" Steve asks.
After standing outside in the rain for 5 minutes, Steve decided to bring them inside.
"So, you don't hit her back?" Alex asks.
"No. I'm already with bad terms with the principal." Lili says shortly.
"Because she's a girl? You're a girl too," Steve says.
"That's not it. She can't even punch properly. It would be a completely unfair fight," Ollie points out.
"But she doesn't do anything to Ollie or Eke?" Kale asks.
"Little things." Eke says.
"Taking your lunch and saying horrible things about you is not little," Lili mutters.
"Yeah, but she's not physically pushing us around," Eke says.
"So, how'd she bruise your face?" Steve asks.
"She pushed me. Like Ollie said, she can't even punch." Lili says quietly. "It's not like it hurts or anything."
"Wait, let me get this straight. You, who cannot go 24 hours without punching something, have done nothing to this bully?" Alex asks, non-believing.
"Oh, she still messes with us after she realized we are a force to be reckoned with," Eke says.
"What did you do?" Kale asks, trying not to laugh.
"Well, we may have hacked her social media accounts," Lili says.
"And posted pictures of her being mean," Ollie adds.
"And, maybe one time we accidentally locked her inside the school for 10 hours after the doors locked," Eke adds quietly.
Kale bursts out laughing.
"You guys know how to do all that?" Steve asks.
"Lili, Eke, and Ollie Kahananui. Professional tech geeks. At your service," Lili mutters.
"I can talk with the principal." Steve offers.
"No." Ollie says.
"He'll get mad at you." Eke says.
"Well, then, fight back," Steve suggests.
"Maybe I will, someday." Lili decides.
"Maybe if we stole all her makeup and then gave her a black eye-"
"No." Lili cuts off Eke. "She'd just buy more."
"We buy out all the makeup on the island-"
"She'd borrow her friend's makeup."
"We throw her off a cliff?"
"We'd go to jail."
"Well, I'm out of ideas then." Eke sighs in defeat.
"We could steal her best friend," Ollie says, and the kid's conversation continues like none of the older people are in the room.
"Now, that's the least likely plan, but it just might work," Eke says, and Eke, Lili, and Ollie do their secret fistbump.
A week later, Steve gets the call.
"Who is it?" Danny asks, still irritated from their last rant.
"The school principal?" Steve says, checking the caller id. He picks up the phone cautiously, as if it were a live grenade.
"Hello?" He asks.
Danny barely catches the conversation, but he catches the words "detention" and "fight".
"Which kid?" Danny asks after Steve hangs up.
"Lili and Eke."
"It wasn't your fight. You could've stayed out of it." Lili growls to Eke.
"And let them thrash you?" Eke returns. Lili winces as the nurse wraps her and Eke's broken arms. She broke her left arm, Eke broke his right.
Steve watches as the 2 argue. Lili argues because she didn't want Eke to be involved and/or hurt, and Eke argues because he doesn't want Lili to get hurt because of him.
They had tried plan B. It had gone well, considering Lili had to pretend to really like Nikki's best friend. Alex gave her tips and tricks, and the 3 youngest siblings orchestrated and performed the plan to their best extent.
It all went perfectly until Nikki told her football-playing boyfriend about the 3 little fleas plaguing her life, and he and his buddies ganged up on Lili. Eke jumped into the fight, and the siblings came out with broken arms.
"What happened to the other guys?" Asked Steve as they were leaving the hospital.
"They're over there." Lili points to the ER, where 3 sullen-looking boys are leaving as well. One of them is holding his bandaged nose.
"Nice job with the pencil," She whispers to Eke.
"Thank you," Eke says back, smiling as they leave.
Steve watches them walk out together, Lili producing a marker from her pocket and beginning to sign Eke's cast, Eke doing the same.
Steve smiles to himself and follows them out the door.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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