pg+4

and Rose next to us; Violet carrying my crutches, Rose carrying a well cooked dinner. Violet’s cooking could win anybody over, whether they wanted to be or not. When the struggling guys smelled the food they looked up to see me pouting in Jacobs arms, Violet carrying my crutches, and Rose trying to find something sweet in the Mexican meal that Violet had made for the family. Then my mom came from the sidewalk, looking at Rose like she was ready to give her a good scolding for leaving her at the house. “You know I don’t like being carried, let me have my crutches back.” I said feeling more embarrassed at having my brother carry me than I had at having Shane or Jasper. “You never have any problem with having them carry you,” Jacob accused. “Because she likes them,” Rose started before hit her. “Ow!” She protested, rubbing her arm. “Well, it’s true!” She said in her own defense. “Put me down, or I’ll knock you down!” I threatened Jacob. “You never knock them down.” Jacob complained. “Because they’re older than me. Now respect your elders and PUT ME DOWN!!!” I yelled at him, making him drop me right then and there. I landed on my tail bone and it felt like I chipped it. Then the angle I landed on forced me flat on the ground. But my hair, which was up in a high, tight ponytail, caught on a tree root, while my back was still arched, forcing my back to stay arched, but pulling some of my hair out. My back snapped like twenty times by the time I had unhooked my hair from the root, which made me realize how much my back hurt. I rolled onto my side, which had Jacob’s legs in front of my mouth while I started yelling curses on the top of my lungs, his legs muffling some of my profanities. Everybody but Shane, Jasper and Joshua started laughing so hard that a couple of them fell over. That couple was Rose and Jacob, but without Jacob’s legs to muffle my profanities, they were loud and clear. But that also meant that Jacob had landed on top of me, which had me yelling even louder. “Molly!” Jasper and Shane yelled in chorus, dropping Joshua who was too stunned to move yet. “If she’s yelling like this, it just hurts. Somehow, she knows when she’s got a broken bone, or anything major, and that’s when she cries, as you found out the first day she came here. But she’s fine. There’s a rope in my car. You can use it to tie up your little captive.” Rose said, tossing the keys to Shane, who hadn’t yet recaptured Joshua. Jasper and Joshua were only about ten feet apart, Joshua in the lead, but Jasper was gaining on him. A minute later Jasper was back with Joshua in his grasp, but just barely. Shane had already gone to Rose’s car, and gotten the rope. He easily tied it around Joshua, in a knot that it would take about five minutes to untie. He tied the other end to his wrist, so that Joshua didn’t have any hope of escape. Then, he and Jasper turned to me. Well, I had just stopped screaming my profanities, and had started wiping the mud off my entire back and left sides. I was wiping the mud off my butt when they saw me and started laughing. Wait, no. Howling was more like it. My face was red and hot, but I kept wiping the mud and crap off of me while Rose lectured me for ruining my designer clothes. And they were howling for a long while. Their booming laughter somehow attracted Jeff, who always cut through this park to get home after basketball games.