"Lucy's turn for the eggs" Lee told everyone. There were a couple of moans, especially from Dan, Ras and big w. I was new and getting things they normally would though they hadn't complained when we went on the L the other day and I got them $20 each so I ignored them and jumped over the fence. We were collecting eggs from the few houses around that had chickens. The other kids had been doing it for ages and figured out if you only took half from each coop then the owners wouldn't realise and put up lights and shit. I gave the dog a bone left over from our dinner last night and grabbed 3 of the 7 eggs. This was the last house and all up brought my total to 11. I chucked some seed and leftovers from the school cafeteria on the ground and got out. Lee said it was good practice to feed the chickens too as they would lay more eggs. We were doing more then collecting eggs, while I was getting them the others checked out the other yards, sheds and cars to see if any were unlocked. We only took what we needed though, food, alcohol and drugs. We also kept an eye out for vacant houses.
"Lucy? What are you doing?" Lip asked as he appeared in the kitchen. I jumped a bit and spun around, Lee jumped too. "What are you doing here?" I asked him, I was expecting an empty house. "Lucy" he said sternly. "Dropping off some eggs before school" I said. "It's 9:30" he said. "Then we better be going" Lee said and we both ran out laughing.
Evan stopped us. "Why are you two so late?" he asked. We both just shrugged. "Come on, let us in E" I begged him. "Fine, but you got to sign in at the front desk" he said and let us through the detector. Lee and I headed to our separate classroom.
"Lucy? What time do you think it is?" Ms Rosa asked as I found my way to my table. "I don't know, I don't have a watch" I told her as I sat down. She sighed. "Why are you late?" She asked. "got stuck in the toilet" I told her confident I could get the other students worked up with such a story that she would drop the whole thing. "You mean on the toilet" Celeste said "no, in. My bum fell down and got stuck" There were a few ewws from the other students "took me ages to wiggle out then I had to dry it" I explained. "Did you touch poop" Greg asked. "I didn't poop, I just pissed" I told him loudly. "No way, it was poop" Dave argued. "It wasn't" I said and jumped off my seat. "Ok, ok. Lucy you already have detention after school so you can make up what you missed then" Ms Rosa said. I sat back down and pulled out a book and pencil from my bag and added some chickens and eggs to the drawing I was working on. Ms Rosa went back to teaching the class, I couldn't help but smile.
"You really would benefit from a more experienced teacher Lucy, I don't teach many students past the second book" Ms Jessica said as I loosened the hair on the bow and put it back in the case. "You're a great teacher, I don't want anyone else" I told her. "You're too talented to stick with me. Maybe I should speak to your parents and see what we can work out" she said. We had this conversation almost weekly since I started on book 3. "They are busy and they said there's no money to get a violin and stuff. I like you and I'm learning heaps still. I got detention again tomorrow after the half day" I said. "I know, we will meet here again" she said. I nodded and closed the violin case.
"Jesus Lip, you suck" I said and slapped him on the shoulder. He had once again been killed on the video game. "Shut up Lucy" he said and tried to slap my legs but he was too far away. "Give it here" Kev said and took the controller off him. Lip sat back on the couch and took a swing of beer then lit a joint. We encouraged Kev as he played the game, he was doing much better than Lip. V came through the front door, none of us turned around or greeted her. She came over and kissed the top of my head. I smiled up at her. She put her bag away then went and sat on Kevs laps. He kept playing until V started whispering to him, he lost focus on the game and quickly died. "You two out" V told us and took the joint of Lip. "Every time" I complained to Lip as we left. "Rough hey?" Lip mumbled.
"Lucy, bath. And take Liam" Fiona told me as she hurried through the lounge room. "No. I don't want to" I whined. Fi sighed loudly and came over to me. "You stink, you need a bath" she said. "Not with Liam, he'll shit" "he just did a huge poop so that won't be an issue" I scrunched my face up at her and groaned. "Please, it will be one less thing I need to do". I sighed "fine" and rolled off the couch. "Liam's in the cot" Fi told me.
"No! Carl!" I screamed as he dropped his pants. He smirked at me and jumped into the bath. I got a full frontal view before he sat down, he had drawn all over himself with marker. "Ewww, why is it black?" I asked him. "Wanted to see what pubes will look like" he said and splashed me. "Get out!" I yelled. Liam started screaming. "Carl! Out!" I yelled. He just smiled at me. "Fiona!" I yelled. Debbie came into the bathroom. "Eww, gross. You're having a bath with Carl? You know he is going to shit in it" she said smirking. "Nooo!" I yelled. "I won't" Carl said and splashed Debbie. "You always poop in the bath" she said as she retreated to the corridor. "What the hell is going on!" Fiona yelled as she ran into the room. "Carl jumped in the bath!" I yelled. "That's it? I thought someone was dying" Fi said with a sigh. "Get him out" I whined and kicked water at Carl. Liam switched from screaming to laughing and splashed water around too. "Have you cleaned Liam?" Fi asked and reached over and rubbed Liam's head. It was still dry. She grabbed the jug and soap and started washing Liam's hair. "Here, give everything a scrub" she said to Carl and gave him a face washer with some soap on it. "Why is there marker on your chest?" she asked him. Carl lifted up his arm and showed us the marker there too. "It's his pubes" I said to Fi. "Drew some down bellow too, want to see?" Carl said as he scrubbed under his arms. "No" Fi told him and focused on me again. "His junks black too" I told her. Fi just shocked her head. "Put your arms up" she said. I did as I was told asking she put soap everywhere. There was a flash of light "got it!" Debbie said and chuckled. She was standing in the doorway with a camera. "Get a pic of my dick pubes" Carl yelled out and went to stand up. "No way, we don't need to get done for child porn. If you're clean then get out" Fi told him and chucked him a towel. Fi grabbed Liam and handed him to Debbie. "Dry, dress and dinner" she told Debbie then turned back to me. "Done?" She asked. I nodded. She smiled at me and tickled my tummy.