The accused

Just a few moments after Baxter said that, a fight broke out. No one messes with Woody, he has 2 older brothers who were both on the wrestling team. Woody was often used as the dummy. When Baxter was calling Theo names, Woody quickly responded with "shut up!" They started to fight and Baxter, being the tough guy that he was, didn't back down. Baxter's sidekick was Griff. Griff was a tiny boy who wasn't very strong. He joined the fight. Theo hated to see Woody fighting all becuase of Theo. Theo knew the punishment but decided to jump in on the fight anyway. Mr. Mount broke it up and sent them to the office. When they got there they were sitting in the office and the principal hadn't got there yet. Mr. Mount was a teenage boy once so he kind of understood. The punishment for fighting was not good. It usually ended up in suspension, and a file on your record saying you were fighting. The principal came in and was not happy. The boys had agreed to not say anything or throw anybody under the buss. She asked the boys what had happened. They said nothing. She asked who had started it. Nothing was said from the boys. She told them if no one was to fess up they would all be getting into trouble. She asked if Baxter had said something offensive to Theo which made Woody react by starting a fight and Griff and Theo just joined in. That was 100% correct but none of the boys said a thing. She then decided to take the boys one by one and ask them individually, in hope someone would crack under pressure. If anyone was to give in it would be Griff. Theo was the first in and told her nothing. She asked again if Baxter had said something offensive and Woody was defending Theo but Theo refused to tell her anything. The principal asked all the boys the same thing, but surprisingly no one gave her any information. She brought them all back in together and she suspended them akll, and the fight would go onto their school record forever. Theo hadf no idea what he was going to tell his parents.

The accused

At dinner, Theo's father asked him many questions about who it could possibly be that is out to get Theo. Theo's father narrowed it down to a student, a boy student. They tried to think of people who have ever been mad at Theo for anything but they couldn't think of anyone, Theo was a pretty nice kid. Theo woke up the next morning, he had a crazy nightmare. He was telling his mother how he had ran away and he had met Pete Duffey and he told him to get in the car, the police were chasing after them. They got to the bridge and Pete jumped. Theo was getting guns pointed at him and finally he jumped. As he was flying through the air, he woke up, scarred. His mother told him it was nothing to be scared about. When Theo went to school, kids were looking at him funny, calling him names. April was there to defend him, but the kids still thought it was funnt to call names and make fun of him. The group of seventh graders came in and Baxter, the cocky leader of the gang, gave Theo a new nickname, Theo the thief. Woody, Theo's best friend, Hear this and was not very happy.