Little Boy Blue [FICTOID]

Suzy came home crying.

“What’s wrong?” her mother asked.

“Billy pulled my hair today,” Suzy said between her tears.  “He’s so mean to me -- he’s always so mean to me!  Mommy, why is he mean to me?”

Suzy’s mother smiled sadly, caressing her daughter’s hair.  “Honey, he likes you.  Little boys don’t know how to express their feelings well.  He feels confused and perhaps a little bit frightened because he likes you, so he acts out by pulling your hair and playing tricks on you.”

Susy gulped back his tears.  “So he likes me?”

“Yes, dear.  He’s showing you in the only way he knows how.”

When little Suzy went to school the next day, she said to Billy, “I like you, too.”

Then as hard as she could, she kicked him right in his balls.

© Buzz Dixon