Escape From Slaughter Beach by Jack Quaid

Author:Jack Quaid [Quaid, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Electric Mayhem
Published: 2019-08-29T22:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Four ten-year-old boys sat in the principal’s office. Their names were Eric, Jacob, Kyle, and Charlie, and all four of those boys had either a bloody nose, a bloody lip, or the beginnings of what was most likely going to be a nasty black eye. Those four boys were against the wall and watching the back of the head of the nine-year-old girl sitting in front of them with blood on her knuckles. The girl was Samantha Turner, and although she couldn’t see the four boys looking at her from behind, she could feel their hatred burning into the back of her head.

Principal Gaunt was behind the desk, and when she looked up from her watch, Sam knew she was getting more annoyed with every passing minute. That annoyance was slightly relieved when Parker burst through the door, half out of breath from rushing to get there.

“Apologies for my tardiness,” Parker said.

Gaunt waited until Parker was settled in her seat next to Sam. “We seem to be making a habit out of this, don’t we, Christine?”

“Are we talking about me being late or Sam being a less-than-stellar student?”

Gaunt wasn’t exactly known for her sense of humor. “Both.”

Parker let the jab slide. “We’re trying to make progress with her behavior, but it doesn’t seem to be—”

“Working?” Gaunt asked.

“Not as yet, clearly,” Parker said. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t all be here, would we?”

“There’s only so much patience that Slaughter Beach Elementary has for… discipline cases, and that patience is running out.”

Parker put on a more serious tone. “What did she do this time?”

Principal Gaunt didn’t say a word. She just pointed to the four bruised and bloody boys sitting against the wall. Parker followed the bony finger to the boys. She saw fat lips, black eyes, and bloody noses.

Then she shifted her gaze back to Gaunt. “She did all that?”

“She certainly did.”

Parker dipped her eyes to her thin, tiny daughter then to the boys almost twice her size before that gaze settled back on Gaunt. “Are you sure?” Parker couldn’t help but let a smirk leak out of the side of her mouth. “Are you really sure? She’s tiny.”

“We’re quite certain.”

“So what happened?” Parker asked.

“She went nuts!” one of the boys erupted.

“Stephen,” Gaunt snapped. She clearly wasn’t in the mood for outbursts.

Stephen shut up.

Gaunt took a breath and fixed her gaze back on Parker. “Stephen pulled Sam’s ponytail, so Sam turned around and punched him a number of times.” She motioned to the other three. “When his friends tried to break it up, she beat up each of them as well. Who knows how much damage she could have inflicted before one of our teachers intervened. I just can’t see any other choice. We’re going to have to expel Sam.”

Parker looked at her daughter. “Is that what happened?”

Sam knew she was in trouble and looked down at her Converses. “Yes… and no.”

“What do you mean ‘and no’?”

Even principal Gaunt leaned forward in her chair to hear what was going to come next.

“He didn’t just pull my ponytail once,” Sam said.

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