To Trust a Giant

Chapter 15

Stella’s life soon changed. No longer was she just in a stuffy apartment with Jason. She was going out to another house with five other giants! Sometimes, she and Jason would stay at the house for a few nights at a time. The thought alone would surely send her into a panic attack, but it didn't. It was actually nice to be around others sometimes.

Jason was out on a date with Clair again, which meant that Stella was with Glenda and the guys again. This was fine cause that meant Stella was away from being grabbed by Jason or sneered at by Clair.

Stella leaned against the pepper shaker getting lost in thought. It was November now, so she began to wear sweaters more to fight off the cold. Meanwhile, the twins were doing homework at the table.

“This is so dumb!” Charlie groaned out. “Divisions is so hard.”

“Dude, it's so easy.” James replied from across the table.

“Then help me.” He asked.

“No way.” James said, covering up his answers.

“Charlie, do your own work.” Glenda called out as she was cleaning the kitchen.

Charlie groaned and slumped down in his chair. He then looked over at Stella.

“Psst!”

Stella looked over at Charlie. He pointed his pencil over to his brother. She immediately knew what he wanted. She gave him a smile and a nod before walking over to James.

“So division is easy, huh?”

“Yup.” James mumbled, concentrating on his work.

“Mind teaching me how to do it?” Stella asked. “I never really learned how to do that, since I never went to school.”

James looked back at Stella. “Sure, all you have to do is-”

“No.” Charlie groaned. “Stella that's not what I wanted.”

“I thought you wanted help?” She replied.

“No, I just wanted the answers.”

“Grandma, Charlie is using Stella to cheat off of me!” James called out.

Glenda rolled her eyes. “Charlie, you should have just listen to James explain it to Stella. Then maybe you would have learned something.”

“It's too complicated.” Charlie snapped.

“I'm with you, Charlie.” Stella replied. “Looks way too hard for me to understand.”

“Well, there goes my plan for tomorrow.” Charlie mumbled.

“What plan?” Stella asked, shooting him a look.

“Nothing, it's not important.”

Glenda overheard everything and hovered over her grandson's chair. “What was the plan, Charlie?” Her voice was calm and stern.

Charlie looked away from Glenda. “It’s nothing.” He responded in a quiet voice.

“Well, then I guess Grandpa can find out.” Glenda said as she started to walk away.

Charlie's brown eyes widened. “Okay, okay!” All eyes were on Charlie now. He took a deep breath. “I was going to take Stella into school tomorrow and have her tell me the test answers.”

“Excuse me, but who said I wanted to go?” Stella snapped.

“I was just going… to take you.” Charlie said shyly.

Anger built up inside Stella. This damn kid was just going to shove her in his backpack right before school tomorrow. He wasn't even going to tell her! Leave it to a giant kid to forget she was a person.