"Come on, Kel, I'm not hanging out here forever," shouted the blond boy, hanging off the doorway as though there wasn't moving ground and rocks beneath him...or gravity, for that matter.
"You break that carriage I'm not finding you guys a new one," said Gus. "Look, I'll introduce you to her later, kay?"
"Why not noooow?" she whined. "She's so pretty, and you've gotten so glowy!"
"Because I already told you to leave and I can't go back on my word or else the others will give me shi - crap, you know that."
"Then I'll hit them."
"No you won't. Violence isn't the answer, so just go. I'll see you at lunch."
Pouting, looking for all intents and purposes like a little black porcelain doll with puffy cheeks, she gave me one last forlorn look before climbing to the edge of the cart and jumpin
