Chapter 26

And Lemon's got a really good heart. She proved that one day in the hallway between classes. Some boys were making fun of me while I was on my way to my reading class. I saw Lemon heading toward me. I wanted to crawl in a locker and hide. I didn't want her to see me like this, to see how the other kids treated me. But she just kept coming and before I knew it, she had the biggest boy smashed under her forearm, pinned up against the lockers.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Lemon growled. I've never seen that look on her face before, and I'm glad it wasn't directed at me. I saw a few teachers starting to make their way over, but once they saw that Lemon had things under control, they all sort of looked the other way. I think the boy might have peed in his pants a little bit too, because he ran away awfully fast when Lemon finally let him go.