There really was no option besides nodding her head and agreeing with Maddie. The parents really weren’t doing anything, and maybe they had their reasons – but in Nick’s opinion there wouldn’t ever be a good enough reason to let this game go on like this. “No, they really aren’t,” it was still kind of bizarre to be agreeing with the other girl on something, but she supposed stranger things had happened before.
Of course the thought had slipped into her mind as to whether Maddie was serious about all of this. But one look at the other girl’s face told her that this wasn’t a joke or some twisted way to screw with her. Maddie was dead serious about stopping this stupid little game. She smiled slightly at the other girl’s non-verbal ‘thanks’, her gaze drifting over towards the playground where the group of boys were now playing.
“Do you really want to be the adult that push a kid around?” Nick asked with a quirk of her eyebrow, wondering if Maddie was truly serious. “They deserve it, don’t get me wrong, but somehow I think we’d still be viewed as the bad guys if we used physical force to stop them.” The boys shouldn’t be playing their game, and they shouldn’t be scaring the younger kids – but she really didn’t think a physical confrontation would go over well.
Nick couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Maddie’s mocking response. Of course the other girl would be against a non-confrontational way of stopping this stupid game. Somehow that didn’t really surprise her. “You know you’re going to have to eat your words when they actually stop, right?” Okay, so maybe it was just a little cocky to think she could get the kids to stop just by talking to them. But she wasn’t going to admit that Maddie might have a point in them possibly only understanding a physical reprimand.