“I will thanks.” I said hugging him and started walking back down the hall.

“Okay class before the bell, you have a test tomorrow over World War Two. So study tonight.” Kers said as he opened his door to his class room and started up class again.

I parked my car in the garage and went next door to Evan’s house. He was in the garage punching the punching-bag that hung from the ceiling. I invited him over and I picked out a movie and started to make some popcorn. He was the only one of Kers kids that was around my age, besides Ashley but she was in school.

“My father called me telling me that he wants me to stay with you for the night.” He said leaning against the counter in the kitchen as I made popcorn.

“Yeah, I… well… I’m sort of in some trouble with Cole’s gang.”

“Oh that’s not good.”

“Yeah I know and my father is away for a while.” I said as I poured the popcorn into the big red bowl. “Your father says that it would be best for me not to stay home alone for a while.”

“So I have a question,” he said in a way that I knew he was going to change the subject.

“Shoot,” I said throwing a popcorn puff in my mouth.

“How many fights have you been in since the beginning of the school year?”

I thought for a while.

“The month is May right?”

“Correct.”

“Four maybe five,” I said eating another one.

“Only? Same girl?”

“No, I don’t deliberately hunt her down, she just doesn’t know when to stop talking. I did her and the school a favor.” I said throwing him a grape soda and I grabbed one for myself.

“By putting her in the hospital?” He asked opening the soda and taking a sip.

“It made me feel better,” I said with a shrug of my shoulder.

“Who were the others?”

“I don’t know their names,” I said with a sigh.

“You beat the crap out of people you didn’t even know.”

“They were making fun of a special kid. If someone stoops that low, they deserved to be beaten the crap out of. The others were just punks that were terrorizing this girl.”