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 loud enough to wake me from my drowsiness. “Hmm… That would be about now too. We could fight, and not get to finish dinner. But I’d prefer to finish dinner first.” Jasper said sounding like he’d rather not fight at all. “The hill’s only a ways up. Come on Jasper, I want to settle this.” Joshua said. By now I was wide awake. “Ungh. Fine Joshua, have it your way.” Jasper said getting up. They started jogging toward the top of the hill, so I started getting up. My hand slipped and I almost did a face plant into Shane’s food, but caught myself. “What are you trying to do Molly?” Shane asked sympathetically. “Besides not trying to face plant into my food, I’m trying to follow Jasper.” I said, trying to push my self onto my good leg. “Are you sure you want to go see him fight? He tends to be a bit brutal sometimes.” Shane said, and then there was a big yank on his wrist that tripped me into a deep mud puddle. When I landed in the mud puddle, the mud splattered Shane as well. His face was full of mud, and Jasper was the forgotten rope’s length away with his brother, laughing at his expression. “Dude! Untie me!!!” Joshua was yelling. “I forgot about the rope,” Shane said, spitting out a mouthful of mud. =Shane scooped me out of the mud puddle, and started jogging toward them, both of us dripping with mud. “You still want to kiss her when she has a mouth full of mud?” Joshua was teasing Jasper. Jasper was looking like he was glad he was getting the chance to beat the snot out of his brother in a minute. Luckily I had grabbed my crutches before Shane had scooped me up, so I hit Joshua in the back of the head with one of them. “Ow!!!” He protested before the stream of profanities started. “I thought you said that you’d make sure she didn’t hit anybody with those things again!” He complained, rubbing the back of his head. “Yes, we did. But that was under assumption that you wouldn’t provoke her again.” Jasper said laughing. = = “You are a pain.” Joshua said to me. “Yes, I tend to be a pain when you are insulting me.” I retorted. “Make up your mind!” He started, “Which one of them are you dating! You lay on his shoulder, but when I’m teasing…OW!!!” I’d cut him off by hitting him in the face with one of my crutches again. Then he lunged for me. I rolled out of Shane’s arms, bringing my crutches with me. Joshua ended up punching Shane’s stomach. “Where’d she go?” Joshua demanded, shaking his hand to numb the pain from hitting Shane. I had the unnecessary brace off of my ankle in the time it took him to figure out where I was and then jumped to my feet. “Put that brace back on!!!” Shane and Jasper yelled at me in unison. “No! My ankle is fine, and it really slows me down.” I protested. Then Joshua was coming at me with a bloody nose. We were on the top of the hill, I realized, and there was a crowd of people there watching us. I sidestepped in the last second, and dealt him a square karate kick in the middle of his back with my bad foot. = ** It made him land head on into a tree. Everyone for about a hundred yard radius was watching me with shocked eyes. A second later he was coming at me again. This time, instead of sidestepping, when he was about to run into me, I used a blow from my right fist to his chest to send him sprawling in the opposite direction about ten feet. I looked around and everybody was gaping at me open mouthed and pg 9 **