Her face, bent low over the math sheet, was red and fierce.
At recess time when he was playing King of the Mountain, he could see that Leslie was surrounded by a group of girls led by Wanda Kay.
He couldn’t hear what they were saying, but he could tell by the proud way Leslie was throwing her head back that the others were making fun of her.
Greg Williams grabbed him then, and while they wrestled, Leslie disappeared.
It was none of his business, really, but he threw Greg down the hill as hard as he could and yelled to no one in particular, “Gotta go.”
He stationed himself across from the girls’ room. Leslie came out in a few minutes.
He could tell she had been crying. “Hey, Leslie,” he called softly. “Go away!”
She turned abruptly and headed the other way in a fast walk.
With an eye on the office door, he ran after her. Nobody was supposed to be in the halls during recess.
“Leslie. Whatsa matter?” “You know perfectly well what’s the matter, Jess Aarons.”
“Yeah.” He rubbed his hair. “If you’d justa kept your mouth shut. You can always watch at my...”
But she had wheeled around again, and was zooming down the hall.
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