Book 2 Chapter 21
Someone dropped the boys on their heads
Matt
After the funeral, life at home settled down. It did until I came home and heard yelling. I went to the gate and saw Tim Wilson hanging upside down as Deacon and Nate took turns whacking him with a stick. Elias leaned against the fence and watched.
“Knock it off!” Tim Wilson swung from a branch while hanging upside down.
“Okay, you don’t have to tell me twice.” Nate shrugged and whacked Tim in the head with a branch.
I shook my head, entered the backyard, grabbed the sticks, and smacked the boys with them.
“That isn’t right,” Deacon told me.
“Do you want another smack?”
“I don’t know, do I?”
“Get out of here before you can’t sit.” I pointed at the house.
“Dang, Dad’s in a bad mood,” Nate told Deacon.
“When isn’t Dad
