Things Get Worse.

            Things get worse for Elise.  Her sixth grade year is not going as planned and it is putting her through absolute misery.  The first day of school she had scars from falling when playing Knights with Franklin.  Kids bullied her and the popular girls made fun of her.  Elise is really shy and doesn't have the confidence to speak up for herself.  When kids make fun of her she doesn't speak up so they continue to do it.  Elise isn't your average teenage girl.  All of the other girls in her school wear little skirts and tight shirts.  Elise on the other hand wears jeans, gym shoes, and baggy sweatshirts.  Elise doesn't do her homework and on Monday she comes to find that her grade is already starting out as a zero.  She is experiencing she has to do her homework because this is no longer elementary school.  When walking into school on Monday kids still remember her scars, now word has gotten around and basically the whole school has found out.  The kids continue to make fun of her and be mean to her about the games she plays with Franklin.  To make matters even worse Elise and Franklin were messing around in Uncle Hugh's barn and building castles.  Elise goes to hold the base and walls together while Franklin hammers in a nail.  Franklin misses the nail and smashes the hammer right into Elise's thumb.  Elise is rushed to the hospital.  Her thumb looks worse than ever, she has to get a shot because there is rust from the nail that has gotten into her cut and she has a broken thumb.  Elise is required to wrap up her thumb and have her arm in a sling.  On Monday morning when she arrives at her locker, the popular girls are there waiting for her once again.  Wish Elise good luck when she takes on the wrath of her classmates.