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You’re so bloody lucky, Drew – he is gorgeous !”
    I didn’t want to stand there and listen to Drew and her friend as they gushed over Kale, so I ran after him. I heard Drew call for me, but I didn’t turn around to answer her. In fact, I mentally stuck my tongue out at her.
    Take that, Drew.
    I spotted Kale’s back as he disappeared around the back of the prefabs, so I ran my fastest after him. I got to the back of the prefabs at the same time a hand clamped down on my shoulder.
    “Hold your horses – Kale said you have to stay with me .” I l ooked over my shoulder and stared up at Drew, who was looking down at me with furrowed brows. Her chest rose and fell rapidly like my own as we both tried to catch our breath.
    She lifted her gaze and looked straight ahead. Her mouth formed into the shape of an O before she flung her hand over her mouth and screeched. I jumped with fright and snapped my head forward, but like Drew, I too screeched when I saw what she had.
    Kale was in a fight – with three boys.
    “Kale!” I cried when one of the boys kicked him in the side of his belly.
    I tried to rush forward to help him, but arms folded around me from behind.
    “Stop!” Drew’s voice hissed in my ear. “You’ll get hurt!”
    I didn’t care; I had to help Kale before he got hurt.
    “Leave him alone!” I screamed at the boys. “Stop it, please !”
    The noises of punches and slaps filled my ears, and just as I was about to scream again, one of the boys on top of Kale suddenly yelped in pain after receiving a kick between the legs. He fell backwards onto the ground and held both hands between his legs. He didn’t get back up and try to hit Kale again; he stayed down and began to cry in pain.
    A few seconds later a second boy fell back off Kale, holding his nose, and he began to cry too, and like the boy next to him, he stayed on the ground and held onto his face as blood began to seep through the fingers he had pressed over his nose.
    I didn’t know why, but I held tightly onto Drew’s arms as she bent down and picked me up. She held me to her and tried to turn so I couldn’t see what was happening, but I turned my head just enough to see that the last boy to fight Kale was Jordan Hummings. The boy who stole my skipping rope and punched me in the back of my head.
    Kale was on top of Jordan. Both of them had blood on them, but Jordan had a lot more on him than Kale did, and he was crying. Kale was not. Jordan lifted his hands and tried to push Kale off, bu t K ale knocked his hands to the side and grabbed him by the collar of his school uniform and held him in place.
    “If you ever ,” Kale bellowed down into his face, “touch my family again, I’ll fucking kill you!”
    I gasped. Kale said a bad word, a really bad word. He was going to be in so much trouble when his mummy and daddy found out.
    “I didn’t touch anyone !” Jordan wailed, his hands desperately trying to break Kale’s hold on him.
    “You did!” Kale bellowed, grasping Jordan’s collar with his other hand. “You hit Lane! She is only a little girl. She is only six , and you punched her in the head!”
    Drew gasped at Kale’s announcement and held me to her, rubbing her hand up and down my back. I hated that it comforted me and helped slow my tears. I hated that I was holding onto her, and I hated that it made me feel better. I didn’t want to need Drew to help me, because Kale had said she was beautiful.
    “Drew, what are you doing back –  hey !” When the voice of an adult bellowed from behind us, I gasped and pressed my face against Drew’s shoulder.
    I was frozen with fear as a grown man rushed past Drew and myself and shot over to Kale and Jordan. He pulled Kale off Jordan first and held him to one side, and then he reached down and pulled Jordan up to his feet. Jordan was crying, and so were his two friends who were still on the ground. Kale was the only boy not crying. He was just glaring hard at Jordan and had