"Hey Chet, aren't you going to wave bye-bye to your mommy?"

He turned around and glared at the Deacon twins who were his main tormentors both in school and in his own neighborhood.

"Oh look, I think he's going to cry!"

"Shut-up!" Chet said, but quietly. He didn't want to catch the attention of Charlie the busdriver. Though neither of his sisters were likely to help him, both could be depended upon to squeal to their mother if he got into a fight.