Fifteen minutes later, she sat on the bleachers ignoring everyone else. She had refused to change into her gym outfit after Alicia Hemmings and her two cronies cornered her in the locker room last week. Alicia accused her of trying to flirt with one of the guys who she happened to have her eye on. Since Makayla hadn’t known which ‘guy’ she was supposed to have eyed, it made the confrontation a little ludicrous. What hadn’t been amusing was the feeling of being threatened.
She wasn’t one to back down, but three against one wasn’t fair odds. Overall, Makayla was pretty proud of herself. The first time Alicia pushed her, Makayla had shrugged it off with a low, one word warning ‘don’t’. The second time, Makayla reacted. She’d learned back in Tampa that when you hit someone, you made sure they
