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Despairingly, I shook my head at the disaster we all faced. At least eight little boys were all covered in plaster of París. For several of them, it ranged from their neck down to their toes. Three remained stiffened in the pool while the other five were lying or standing frozen in position in the grass.
“Eddie,” Drake growled.
“Yeah?”
“Was this your plan?”
“Of course, Daddy. The Legacies made Aria and Alyssa cry earlier, and Nashoba pushed Nokomis over, and he shouldn’t be mean. They’re twins. So they needed punishment. Plus, they did put worms in our beds last week,” Eddie explained.
I stared at the calm child and wondered what was happening in her head and why she wasn’t locked up.
“Eddie,” Drake growled out, and Eddie shrugged.
“Yes, Daddy?” Eddie sighed. “Okay, we found the old pool, cleaned it up, and got Tye to put it up for us. Tye’s my big brother, so he didn’t think I was up to anything. Then we filled it with water, and Tye left. Once Tye was gone, we emptied some and returned to the front so you wouldn’t miss us.”
“While you watched us, the others put in plaster of París and stirred it in. They added some quick hardening stuff to it, and then Harper gave us the thumbs up,” Davy continued.
“And then we whispered about the secret pool, and within minutes, Dante and his band of fools had taken over it. So, it serves them right. Not only did they upset my sisters, but they were going to try and take something that was ours,” Alyssa finished.
“Then the plaster began hardening with them in. Don’t worry; we put the blow-up life jackets over their heads when they couldn’t move their legs. And then we popped them so they could breathe when the plaster hardened. That was Eddie’s idea,” Bonnie explained. “Eddie said even though we don’t like them, you wouldn’t forgive us if we suffocated them. Not sure why not. It would be a lot quieter around here.”
I blinked in disbelief at their words.
“What were you thinking?” Phoe thundered. “Somebody could seriously have been hurt!”
“No, Mama Phoe. Look, we had backup if we needed it.” Eddie pointed to a pile of hammers the girls had believed they would use to smash the boys out of the cast.
I shook my head.
“And what brought this on?” Fish demanded as he studied Maverick. “Could we leave Mav like this for a bit longer?” he asked Marsha, who glared, and Fish winced.
Drake chuckled.
Fish shrugged. “It was a thought.”
“You told us to stand together, that we are family. Family doesn’t allow anyone to shit on them,” Eddie stated calmly.
Phoe’s eyes narrowed. “Those boys are family, too. And mind your language.”
“If you say so, Mama. But as Daddy says, they’ll be in the club one day, and it’s brothers first, bros before hoes.”
Phoe choked at Eddie’s words.
She continued, “So, if they’re going to be all brothers, blah, blah, then we are the same as sisters. We’re sisters before dicks. Or is it because we don’t have penises, we’re subservient to them? Because I tell you, Mama Phoe, we’ve got the bigger balls. Plus, they’re Legacies; we all know what that means.”
Stunned, I couldn’t speak. I was so dumbstruck at Eddie’s statement that I turned to Phoe wide-eyed.
“Drake!” Phoe snarled.
Drake immediately looked guilty. “I did not use bros before hoes in front of the kids!”
“No?” Phoe snapped, seething.
“No?” Drake answered with clear hope.
“Wait a minute. What do you mean, Eddie, about the Legacies?” Phoe demanded, turning back to her child.
“It means Daddy and his brothers think they’re more important than us. They will take over because they have penises. They’re not Legacies on merit. Girls aren’t allowed in the club because they believe we’re not as strong as them.” Eddie’s eyes narrowed on Drake and his fellow men. “You will regret that one day, thinking they are worth more than us. Because every time they do something, we will pay them back even worse. Mama Phoe says, ‘You’ll need us one day, and we won’t be there.’ That goes for the Princesses, too!”
