I don't want to prematurely reveal what happened to this poor girl on
her first day in our school too early so you will just have to wait
like everyone else. We were behind the gym starting to walk to the
East when the car with the miscreants came by for the third time but
this time they were driving really slowly and I noticed, too late,
that one of the boys in the back seat had a rifle out the window and
he shot as they went by. I thought at first that they had missed but
the new girl started screaming and there was blood pouring down her
face from a tiny wound in the center of her forehead. There was snow
on the ground and I grabbed a handful to try and stop the bleeding it
held it back a second but it didn't stop. When I pulled it away there
was a swollen fleshy volcano with a perfectly round BB hole in the
center which was still spurting blood. We were in a real pickle here
we had a girl with a air-rifle wound and we were not where we were
supposed to be so we had a problem, do we get help and inadvertently
reveal our naughtiness, or wait for a break and the girl could just
bleed while we covered our own butts. I am ashamed to say we opted
for some butt covering and waited the thirty-five minutes until the
bell rang to report the assault and get the girl medical attention.
In the meantime we snuck back into the building and tried to get her
cleaned up a little in the most remote bathrooms in the building.
They were not terribly remote or private because in an attempt to
shame more kids into washing their hands and to keep water messes to
a minimum the sinks were one huge semi-circular sink and it was in
the hall. She was still bleeding and mopping when the bell rang and
students quickly noticed that there was an abnormal amount of blood
in the region of the bathroom and the principal was already on his
way when we went to meet him. Right away he asked me why I was always
involved when something crazy happened, I told him I was just walking
to class when we were shot at. I told him who the boys were and what
they were driving as they got the girl some medical attention. It
turned out that the BB popped right in and hit her skull and bounced
right back out. So all she had to deal with was a huge swollen red
round wound on her forehead on her first week in a new school. The
shooter boys were picked up by the police in about half an hour and
they were genuinely sorry that they had been caught. They were also
sorry that they had shot a girl who's only crime was poor taste in
friends. They explained that they were trying to shoot me and hit her
by accident. Fair enough, the authorities say and send the boys on
their way. Just kidding they had to go to court and they had to
apologize to the girl and her family and I am not sure if it was
court ordered or some kind of arrangement between the parents but the
boy actually came and worked for free for the girls dad for a little
bit as restitution. Her forehead was only really bad for a week or so
and then through the magic of ritual face paint common in the
American teen she was able to conceal her war wound. I think she only
lasted in our school a few months before she runaway and went on the
road with a friend.
