11 The Bullies

On the way home from school, a gang of bullies pick on Catherine & Jack. 

Bravely Catherine stood by Jack as the bullies descended. He felt such a coward. If anything happened to her, he would never forgive himself.

“Oh I’m mad now,” wheezed a big lad, dragging on a cigarette. “So what was it ya saw yesterday then? Yer brother’s ghost? What was that rhyme, Mickey?”

Mickey smirked. He was smaller than the others, and younger. “Yesterday upon the stairs I met the man who wasn’t there.”

“Is that what ya saw then? The man who wasn’t there?” the big lad persisted.

Jack, trying to get his breath back, didn’t say anything. Mainly because he couldn’t from the fall.

“Are ya deaf?” the big lad demanded.

“He wasn’t there again today, I wish that man would go away,” sneered Mickey.

“Shut yer hole, Mickey!” yelled another big lad, taking the cigarette off the first.

To make himself feel better, Micky scowled at Jack. “I could give you a right good pasting.”

from Chapter 6    Yesterday upon the Stair

Jack Hughes & Thomas the Rhymer

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