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Date Posted: Sunday, February 26, 07:12:34pm
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Nikita507
's message, "Priority Mail 387+" on Wednesday, February 08, 08:18:13pm
Sabina dropped her back in the kitchen and stomped up the stairs. Nikita turned to look at Reagan as she entered the kitchen and picked up the bag of the girl who was pouting. Reagan sighed and sat down. “I guess some of the kids were… picking on her today.”
Nikita stopped rolling out the crust for the chicken pot pie and sighed. “About?”
“Can you believe that they said that she was stupid?” Reagan questioned as she shook her head from side to side. “It happened during recess… Sabina wouldn’t even tell me what happened. I only found out because I overheard the girls in the bathroom later.”
“Isn’t this a bit young for this?” Nikita fretted as she rubbed the rolling pin in her hands. She had perfected this meal with Walter last week and she wanted to have a good family dinner for Adam the day before the Championship Soccer game.
Reagan shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t think the girl thought what she said…. I think it was something that she heard her mother say.”
“A mother thinks my daughter is stupid?” Nikita inquired as she shook her head back and forth.
“No,” Reagan jumped immediately as she settled the book bag down on the chair and tried to calm down Nikita right away. “More than likely the girl was probably asking her parents why Sabina got to leave class with a special teacher. More often than not… it’s for educational delays.”
“Because I shouldn’t have to disclose to every parent who goes to that school how smart Sabina is… because she deserves to be a little girl,” Nikita erupted and Reagan watched as she paced to the sink and dropped the rolling pin into the metal sink with a loud clank. “Nikita… this is part of being a little girl.”
Nikita didn’t like this one bit and she rubbed her neck. After dinner, she was going out with Michael and Davenport because Nikita had to stop a rapist the previous night as the Angel. They were going to try to stop the bad thing, which Nikita refused to call the Devil, from happening tonight. She realized that it was a long shot but if she needed to, she would stay home tonight and be there for Sabina. “Ah… I should go talk to her.”
Reagan shook her head from side to side. “I wouldn’t.”
“What?”
“Sabina is smart and she knows what is going on. She has to learn to deal with this, Nikita. Going to her now, until she says that she wants to talk to you about this is just going to make it worse… and Sabina doesn’t know how I found out,” Reagan outlined her reasoning behind Nikita not going to Sabina.
Not that it was going to be easy.
Neither of the women noticed Adam coming home from practice early, because the coach wanted them rested for the game tomorrow. He went upstairs and heard the crying from Sabina’s room. He realized that something must have happened at school because he had noticed how intensely Nikita and Reagan were talking in hushed tones in the kitchen.
Adam opened the door and saw Sabina with her head deep into the stuffed animals. “Hey… do you want to play Wii with me?”
“No,” Sabina huffed but she stopped crying. Adam walked in and dropped onto the bed. “Something wrong, Sabina? You’ve been hounding me for days to play that new Disney game with you?”
“I hate school,” Sabina declared without lifting her head. Adam chuckled as he leaned back on the bed. “Oh… so someone is picking on you.”
“Not just someone… Amber!” Sabina argued as she sat up. “She said that I was stupid.”
“You know that you aren’t,” Adam shrugged his shoulders slightly as this was really nothing that bad. He had to admit that he didn’t remember much about first grade. He didn’t remember much when he first started going to school, but he did remember how it felt to be more intelligent than others, but he wasn’t as smart as Sabina and had been thru different thing in his life that Adam found other ways to cope. “Why do you care?”
“Because Amber is the coolest,” Sabina answered as she rubbed at her eyes. “She always has the neatest clothes on… and she has the neatest pencils.”
“And you care that she thinks that you are stupid?”
“Because I leave class with Reagan,” Sabina nodded her head up and down. Adam laughed. “Oh, Sabina… tomorrow she’ll forget what she said.”
“But I won’t.”
“Yeah, you probably won’t,” Adam admitted as he pulled at one of her stuffed animals and looked towards the door. “You know… it was hard going to school this year for me… they called me nerd.”
“They still do,” Sabina pointed out and Adam stopped for a moment before nodding his head. “Yep… they still do. But the names don’t matter Sabina.”
Sabina huffed but didn’t comment. Adam handed her the stuffed animal back and shrugged his shoulders. “You should think about how lucky you are, Sabina. I heard about what school was like for you last year.”
“Bored,” Sabina admitted and Adam agreed. “I was bored last year too… so we both are decided to be not so bored this year and we have to deal with others who just don’t get it. We can’t waste time thinking about what is going to make them like us… we got to like ourselves first.”
“So that is why you are lifting weights?” Sabina asked and Adam turned his head to the side. “No… that’s training.”
“Oh,” Sabina spoke and didn’t get that Adam wasn’t really telling the truth right then. She looked to the door and moved closer to Adam. “Can I tell you something?”
“Anything.”
“I got her back,” Sabina whispered and Adam arched an eyebrow. Sabina started to nod her head up and down happily. “Isn’t it stupid to cheat off of someone who is supposed to be stupid?”
“What?” Adam inquired as he blinked his eyes as he couldn’t believe what he was hearing right now. This was first grade.
Sabina nodded her head up and down. “Reagan makes me take the tests with the other kids… so we had math today… simple addition… nothing hard,” Sabina started to explain and Adam tried not hard to smile because he could tell where this was going. He kind of liked it but kind of knew that it could get Sabina into trouble. “Well… I could tell that Amber was copying… so I wrote my answers really big… she sits right behind me… and she copied them…”
“How many did you get wrong?” Adam inquired and Sabina smiled. “Not the easy easy ones…”
“How many?”
“56.00000000000001 percent,” Sabina responded and Adam arched an eyebrow. “14 wrong… the test was 25 questions.”
Sabina had failed the test and took Amber with her.
“Nikita isn’t going to be happy,” Adam warned and Sabina shrugged her shoulders. “It’s a good lesson to Amber.”
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