For years, the Brewer boys...
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For years, the Brewer boys antagonized their fellow riders on the school bus. The
Brewers were older, bigger, and stronger than the rest of the students, and were first
cousins with the bus driver. They routinely rifled through other riders' lunches in search
of something they wanted. They pinched and poked, tore books, threw homework out the
window, and used all manner of bullying tactics.
When parents phoned the driver to complain, he always replied that he never saw anything out of order. When they complained to the school principal, they were redirected to the driver. The school district office similarly turned the parents back to the bus company.
It eventually became a given: the Brewers would terrorize other passengers, get used to it. That is until the Abbots moved in. Mavis Abbot was a senior in high school. She was smart, she was strong-willed, and she was not intimidated. From the very beginning, the Brewer boys instinctively knew they had to keep their distance. What they hadn't bargained for was how she stood up for the other passengers. The first time the Brewers tried to take a younger rider's lunch, there was Mavis with a stare that froze them in their tracks. It was only a matter of a few weeks before the Brewers were tamed.
When asked why she did it, she simply said, "I couldn't sit idly by with all that bullying going on." God said, "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent."
When parents phoned the driver to complain, he always replied that he never saw anything out of order. When they complained to the school principal, they were redirected to the driver. The school district office similarly turned the parents back to the bus company.
It eventually became a given: the Brewers would terrorize other passengers, get used to it. That is until the Abbots moved in. Mavis Abbot was a senior in high school. She was smart, she was strong-willed, and she was not intimidated. From the very beginning, the Brewer boys instinctively knew they had to keep their distance. What they hadn't bargained for was how she stood up for the other passengers. The first time the Brewers tried to take a younger rider's lunch, there was Mavis with a stare that froze them in their tracks. It was only a matter of a few weeks before the Brewers were tamed.
When asked why she did it, she simply said, "I couldn't sit idly by with all that bullying going on." God said, "For Zion's sake I will not keep silent."
