Stand by me / Teddy

Pt 2 Bully

I grab the things I need to camp out and go to open the door "Andie!" a pair of small arms wrap around my legs "Hey Belle, what's up?" I ask my little sister, who is still clinging to my legs.

"Where are you going?" she asks.

"I'm camping at my friend's house," I reply.

"Can I come?" she pleads.

"No Belle, this is for older kids only. It's too dangerous for you, you can stay home with mum" I say.

"But I don't want to stay, mummy never does anything with me, she's no fun" Belle complains, I kneel in front of her.

"I know Bellie but it's only for a couple days okay, stay strong for me" I say.

"Okay" she sighs.

"Hey Andie, where are you going?" Mum steps around the corner.

"Just camping at my friend's place" I say.

"Not those boys again I hope, you need to get some better friends, stop hanging out with those boys they are not a good influence on you" Mum raises her voice.

"They're my only friend's mum. I can't just ditch them, I need them" I say.

"No you are not going and that's final. You can stay here and look after your sister and clean the house too while I'm at work" She says.

"Mum, I haven't been able to hang out with my friends for months and I already cleaned the house last weekend just like you asked, I'm going. I'll be back tomorrow" I walk out of the house and down the road, I half expected mum to come out the door yelling at me but she didn't. I guess she really doesn't care about me"

"Hey Gordie" I say running up to him.

"Hey"

"Are you ready for the trip?" I ask.

"I guess so" he replies.

"Right here's cool"

"Hey Chris," Gordie says quietly.

"Thanks a lot" Chris says, jumping off the hay on the back of a truck.

"Hey gordo! Hey andie" Chris says.

"Hey man"

"You guys wanna see something?" Chris says.

"Sure what?" Gordie asks.

"Sure" I say.

"You ok?" Chris asks Gordie.

"Yeah I'm fine. What is it?" We run around the corner behind a diner.

"Come on man what is it?" I ask, Chris reaches into his rolled up mat and slowly pulls out a gun.

"You wanna be the lone ranger or the cisco kid?" Chris hands the gun to me, I turn it over in my hands observing it, I point it at the bin and pretend to shoot it making a blasting noise with my mouth, then I hand it to Gordie.

"Where'd you get this?" Gordie asks.

"Hocked it from my old man's bureau it's a forty five" Chris says as gordie points it at the bin too.

"I can see that" Gordie says "you got shells for it?"

"Yeah it took all that was left on the box my dad'll think he used them himself shooting beer cans while he was drunk" Chris explains.

"Is it loaded?" I ask.

"Heck no! What do you think I am?" Chris says, then Gordie shoots the bin "Crap!" we all yell and run aways from the diner.