Come Back Home by Teddie Peacock

Author:Teddie Peacock [Peacock, Teddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speckled Hen Press
Published: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

Very upsetting things started happening at school. Cheerleaders and athletes would randomly “bump” hard into me, causing me to drop books. One day, one of the football players intentionally ran hard into me, tipping my lunch tray and spilling an entire milkshake on my shirt. It was so humiliating, standing there drenched in milkshake while the popular tables laughed their heads off.

Multiple times during sophomore year, someone broke the lock on my locker and stole my textbooks. I was continually in the office, borrowing textbooks. My PE clothes got stolen from my gym locker. Then I would lose participation points in class.

At the end of tenth grade, someone anonymously turned me in for cheating on a Biology test. This was entirely ridiculous, I had the highest grade and later majored in biology at Vanderbilt.

Mom and Daddy thought I was just acting out or going through some teenage hormonal thing. That year, I spent so much time with the guidance counselor, I felt like we were somehow bonded.

The people I really needed to talk to were my parents. But I couldn’t let them know the real reason these things kept happening to me was because of Daddy and his stupid football rules. I couldn’t spoil the one thing he loved so much.

I stop here and watch Detective Hunter's reaction. He is quiet, his expression thoughtful. I think he’s still processing what I’ve told him .

The adult Delaney knows that teenage Delaney had very stupid reasoning skills. Subjecting myself to continual harassment and bullying to spare my daddy’s feelings was idiotic. But at that time, it was all I knew to do. I somehow naively thought if I just endured it, Ethan and friends would get tired and move on to someone else. How very wrong I was!

One thing about Daddy’s coaching style; he was tough, but fair. That’s how he built such successful football programs.

In smaller schools, it’s hard to field competitive football teams. You are constantly drawing from the same pool of students, with many participating in other sports and extracurricular activities. In North Carolina, at some of the tiny schools, it wasn’t unusual to see football players and cheerleaders performing as band members in the halftime performances.

Daddy believed in giving everyone playing opportunities. Follow the rules, be a good sport, train hard and you saw playing time. He had no problem benching starters who had bad attitudes or weren’t performing.

This did not sit well with Ethan and his teammates. This was also the main reason that tenth grade sucked so much for me.

Daddy's second year as head coach nearly, literally ended me! This was the year our team was predicted to make the state tournament. Practices got harder, longer and more intense. The Pleasantville Indians meant business this year. All The Way To State!

This was also the year Ethan doubled down on making my life a living hell.

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