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When
else
were
two
girls
like
us
going
to
come
to
blows
?
I
wrestled
on
the
ground
with
Teddy
,
and
sometimes
I
pinched
him
,
but
a
fistfight
?
He
was
just
a
baby
,
and
even
if
he
were
older
,
Teddy
was
like
half
kid
brother
and
half
my
own
kid
.
I
’
d
been
babysitting
him
since
he
was
a
few
weeks
old
.
I
could
never
hurt
him
like
that
.
And
Kim
,
an
only
child
,
didn
’
t
have
any
siblings
to
sock
.
Maybe
at
camp
she
could
’
ve
gotten
into
a
scuffle
,
but
the
consequences
would
’
ve
been
dire
:
hours
-
long
conflict
-
resolution
seminars
with
the
counselors
and
the
rabbi
.
"
My
people
know
how
to
fight
with
the
best
of
them
,
but
with
words
,
with
lots
and
lots
of
words
,
"
she
told
me
once
.
But
that
fall
day
,
we
fought
with
fists
.
After
the
last
bell
,
without
a
word
,
we
followed
each
other
out
to
the
playground
,
dropped
our
backpacks
on
the
ground
,
which
was
wet
from
the
day
’
s
steady
drizzle
.
She
charged
me
like
a
bull
,
knocking
the
wind
out
of
me
.
I
punched
her
on
the
side
of
the
head
,
fist
closed
,
like
men
do
.
A
crowd
of
kids
gathered
around
to
witness
the
spectacle
.
Fighting
was
novelty
enough
at
our
school
.
Girl
-
fighting
was
extra
special
.
And
good
girls
going
at
it
was
like
hitting
the
trifecta
.
By
the
time
teachers
separated
us
,
half
of
the
sixth
grade
was
watching
us
(
in
fact
,
it
was
the
ring
of
students
loitering
that
alerted
the
playground
monitors
that
something
was
up
)
.
The
fight
was
a
tie
,
I
suppose
.
I
had
a
split
lip
and
a
bruised
wrist
,
the
latter
inflicted
upon
myself
when
my
swing
at
Kim
’
s
shoulder
missed
her
and
landed
squarely
on
the
pole
of
the
volleyball
net
.
Kim
had
a
swollen
eye
and
a
bad
scrape
on
her
thigh
as
a
result
of
her
tripping
over
her
backpack
as
she
attempted
to
kick
me
.
There
was
no
heartfelt
peacemaking
,
no
official
détente
.
Once
the
teachers
separated
us
,
Kim
and
I
looked
at
each
other
and
started
laughing
.
After
finagling
ourselves
out
of
a
visit
to
the
principal
’
s
office
,
we
limped
home
.
Kim
told
me
that
the
only
reason
that
she
volunteered
for
team
captain
was
that
if
you
did
that
at
the
beginning
of
a
school
year
,
coaches
tended
to
remember
and
that
actually
kept
them
from
picking
you
in
the
future
(
a
handy
trick
I
co
-
opted
from
then
on
)
.
I
explained
to
her
that
I
actually
agreed
with
her
take
on
To
Kill
a
Mockingbird
,
which
was
one
of
my
favorite
books
.
And
then
that
was
it
.
We
were
friends
,
just
as
everyone
had
assumed
all
along
that
we
would
be
.
We
never
laid
a
hand
on
each
other
again
,
and
even
though
we
’
d
get
into
plenty
of
verbal
clashes
,
our
tiffs
tended
to
end
the
way
our
fistfight
had
,
with
us
cracking
up
.
After
our
big
brawl
,
though
,
Mrs
.
Schein
refused
to
let
Kim
come
over
to
my
house
,
convinced
that
her
daughter
would
return
on
crutches
.
Mom
offered
to
go
over
and
smooth
things
out
,
but
I
think
that
Dad
and
I
both
realized
that
given
her
temper
,
her
diplomatic
mission
might
end
up
with
a
restraining
order
against
our
family
.
In
the
end
,
Dad
invited
the
Scheins
over
for
a
roast
-
chicken
dinner
,
and
though
you
could
see
Mrs
Schein
was
still
a
little
weirded
out
by
my
family
—
"
So
you
work
in
a
record
store
while
you
study
to
become
a
teacher
?
And
you
do
the
cooking
?
How
unusual
,
"
she
said
to
Dad
—
Mr
.
Schein
declared
my
parents
decent
and
our
family
nonviolent
and
told
Kim
’
s
mother
that
Kim
ought
to
be
allowed
to
come
and
go
freely
.
For
those
few
months
in
sixth
grade
,
Kim
and
I
shed
our
good
-
girl
personas
.
Talk
about
our
fight
circulated
,
the
details
growing
more
exaggerated
—
broken
ribs
,
torn
-
off
fingernails
,
bite
marks
.
But
when
we
came
back
to
school
after
winter
break
,
it
was
all
forgotten
.
We
were
back
to
being
the
dark
,
quiet
,
good
-
girl
twins
.
We
didn
’
t
mind
anymore
.
In
fact
,
over
the
years
that
reputation
has
served
us
well
.
If
,
for
instance
,
we
were
both
absent
on
the
same
day
,
people
automatically
assumed
we
had
come
down
with
the
same
bug
,
not
that
we
’
d
ditched
school
to
watch
art
films
being
shown
in
the
film
-
survey
class
at
the
university
.
When
,
as
a
prank
,
someone
put
our
school
up
for
sale
,
covering
it
with
signs
and
posting
a
listing
on
eBay
,
suspicious
eyes
turned
to
Nelson
Baker
and
Jenna
McLaughlin
,
not
to
us
.
Even
if
we
had
owned
up
to
the
prank
—
as
we
’
d
planned
to
if
anyone
else
got
in
trouble
—
we
’
d
have
had
a
hard
time
convincing
anyone
it
really
was
us
.
This
always
made
Kim
laugh
.
"
People
believe
what
they
want
to
believe
,
"
she
said
.
