> She settled against him, tone quiet as she remembered "A girl named Tracy
> came to practice one day.. volleyball. Her mother had just spent her life
> savings on some dental and mouth work she needed and a.. ermm.. "Julia
> wanted to say bitch but settled for "girl named Muffy of all things for
some
> reason pin pointed her and had a bunch of her snotty friends jump Tracy in
> the locker room. Teacher wouldn't do anything about it because Tracy's
> mother bought the gym, so I did."
>
> There was obvious disgust in her voice as she recalled what had happened
but
> she kept her tone low "I didn't hit her.. but seeing a bat coming at you
> does tend to scare one's self into running... and she ran straight for the
> principal's office. I ended up getting detention and later, some
> satisfaction that weekend."
>
> She looked at Derek, eyes twinkling "That brother of mine knew how to make
> the grossest stuff for wrapping someone's house... it took Muffy all
weekend
> to clean it up after her parents found out why their daughter's sportscar
> got wrapped and some money out of her savings account to fix what she had
> damaged in Tracy's mouth and I apologized to Muffy's parents for my
temper.
> Her father thanked me for knocking her down a peg or two."
>
Derek:
"I'm glad it worked out so well, though I'm surprised that ll the school did
was give you detention. You were rather lucky," he told her. "Seems to me
they expell children for such threatening behavior these days."
