Woman's Eye View

Samantha's normally kind, sweet and motherly composer suddenly changed, and she became a snarling beast. "Jennifer Rossette Gray, get away from Jeremy and into the corner immediately or else your bottom is going to be more purple than his leg." She bellowed, and I knew I was in so much trouble that I would be better off failing.

Of course, I wasn't dumb enough to disobey Samantha, plus being scared out of my mind of her at that moment, I was in the corner so fast there are still marks in the carpet.

Samantha quickly picked up Jeremy and began to rock him and soothe him. He finally cried himself to sleep eventually. Samantha then picked up the phone and called the police department, where my mom worked. "Hello, is Rebecca Gray there?" Samantha asked.

There was a short silence on the phone as the person on the other side spoke. "Thanks." Samantha said, as I knew my mother picked up the phone on her end.

"I'm so dead." I must have said out loud, because one of the other kids spoke up.

"You seem alive to me." The little girl said.

"I am in a lot of trouble." I told her as I listened to what Samantha was saying.

"Hey, Rebecca, this is Samantha ... I'm okay, how about you ... That's always good to hear ... I was just calling to inform you that Jennifer hit Jeremy twice I believe today. I only saw her hit him in the leg when he was down, with a huge bruise forming rapidly on his chin." Samantha reported, and then she suddenly held the phone at arms length as I could even hear my mom yelling.

"What?!? Why the heck would Jennifer do that? She is a dead little girl! She is so dead; she'll be better off failing all of school period! Jennifer, I am so mad at you! I know you can here me! You better not repeat this, or else you won?t get any presents this year period!" Came the clear voice of my mother other the phone.

Samantha cautiously put the receiver back to her ear, as Jeremy suddenly awoke, and began crying again.

"Are you done?? Good, because you woke up Jeremy and I just got him to go to sleep and to be quiet. I want you to get down here to the school and pick up Jennifer. And call Melyssa to pick up Jeremy." Samantha shouted over Jeremy, and then slammed down the phone.

"I take it you really didn?t want to do that." The girl said.

"No. I don't like getting in trouble." I replied.

"I'm willing to help you with that. My name's Crystal Holms." The stranger volunteered and introduced.

"Hi, my name is Jennifer Gray, and I would love some help. I just want friends." I agreed eagerly. I was interested in what this little girl had to teach me.

It wasn't long before my mom arrived at the school, as she was driving her police cruiser with her lights and siren going. Mom burst into the room and grabbed my roughly by the arm and gave me a very hard spanking. "I don't want you ever to do this again, understand?" She whispered into my ear as she knelt next to me.

I nodded through the pain of her spanking. I shortly received fifteen more as she dragged me out of the school. "I mean it, Jennifer. I've told you not to hit; you're stronger than most of the kids in that class. Luckily, Jeremy's a dragon, like you, or else you would have broken his jaw and leg. Oh, and you're grounded for the next month: no friends, no playing outside, and no nothing except food, clothing, shelter, education and love. That's it." My mom continued as she flipped her siren on and sped off toward our house.