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"Mercy, mercy, MERCY!" Lloretta's bell-toned voice wafted up through the rafters of the Church. Her pale face was srunched in pain from the way Esther, her friend, was twisting her wrists.
"Okay. Do you want to play again?" Esther asked, letting go of Lloretta's skinny wrists and rubbing her own.
"No! We already played 'Mercy' three times, and you won all of them. Plus, if I scream one more time, the pastor will have us thrown out, and never let back into the Church again." Lloretta whispered as she pushed her light brown hair out of her face.
"Oh, Llori! You're just a scaredy-cat! One more time? Promise I'll go easy!" Esther begged. Llori contemplated her offer. She gazed at Esther's milky skin, bright green eyes, and blond hair.
"Okay, but go easier than last time. That hurt. And if I get home with a broken wrist, Momma'll smack me!" Lloretta agreed, grabbed Esther's skinny wrists, and screamed, "Ready, Essie? GO!" Of course Essie was ready, but Lloretta twisted her arms in excrushiatingly painful angles.
"MERCY! Llori you win, YOU WIN! Let go of me!" Esther screeched. When Lori let go, Esther held her left arm close to her.
"I never knew you were that strong. Llori, if you arm-wrestle the boys in one of their games, we could win the prize money! Fifty cents! Just think!" Essie smiled at the thought of the two shiney quaters they could win. She looked at Llori.
"No, Esther. Those competitions are dangerous. I could get hurt." Lloretta crossed her arms over her blue calico dress and dirty white apron. Esther began to protest, but Llori stopped her. stomped out of the Church's huge oak doors.
The sun beat down on Llori's face as she skipped along the side of the main road in Woodwin. The dust from the dirt roads swirled in the air. Lloretta looked around. The village house surrounded the market in the center of town. The big strong river ran on the outskirts of Woodwin and gave the town a fresh, crisp scent. Trees lined the dirt paths that the villagers called street and shaded Llori's face from the strong morning sun. She smiled. Lloretta was proud of the little town. She loved it and wanted to live here forever. But soon Essie's voice brought her back out of the clouds.
"Llori, Llori! I'm sorry! We don't have to enter the arm wrestling games if you don't want to!" She shouted. Lloretta whirled around,
"Shush! Don't be so loud! If the boys hear you, we could start a fight!" Llori urged. The she heard a voice from behind,
"That, you could." Llori zipped around again to see the source of the voice. It was Matthew, one of the boys at her school, he was hanging upside down from the branch of a tree.
"Does Llori think she can beat me at arm wrestling? I'd like to see 'er try!" He snarled. Matthew jumped down from the tree and started at Lloretta, but in a split second, Esther slid right between them, and pushed Matthew to the dirt.
"Shut up you useless rat fart!" She shouted, "I'll show you how to treat girls the proper way!" And with that, Essie started throwing punched and kicks into Matthew's face, stomach and sides until he had a bloody nose. Esther spit on his forehead.
"Now run home and cry to your Mum! If you say a single thing that so much as hints this incident, you'll be sorry, Matthew James." Esther hissed. Llori stepped up. She wasn't going to pass up a oppertunity like this. Lloretta smiled an evil smiled, and simply said,
"Essere andato," And Matthew's head, which was raised to see Llori, smacked to the ground, and his eyes snapped shut. Llori smiled again.
"Let's go, Ess, and leave this no good louse here." She said. Then Esther and Lloretta strode off into the outskirts of town with the fleeting summer breeze.
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