Memory+-+Stone+Head

=Stone Head = = =  When Brittain was in kindergarten he went to the Exploration Learning School for two years. His parents had held him back because he was the youngest kid in his class. While he was at school, Brittain and his friends were always on the playground. This playground was for Pre-Kindergarten through second grade and all the bigger kids went to a bigger playground.

Around the middle of the school year, near the playground, the group of trees surrounded by rocks started to grow fruit. When this happened, everyone knew that in a couple of days //smoke bombs// would start coming off the trees. Smoke bombs were the old fruit that had started to decay. If you got one that was not broken then you could throw it at the rocks and smoke would come out at the impact point. To Brittain, that was cool back then.

When there were no smoke bombs on the ground, the kids resorted to throwing rocks at the branches to knock the smoke bombs off the trees. One somewhat warm day at school, there were a lot of kids sitting under the trees because they wanted shade. And there were also some kids who were throwing rocks at the trees to get the smoke bombs.

While Brittain was throwing rocks at the trees, his friend came by and asked if he could use one. Brittain said, "Here is a good rock. It's nice and pointy at the tip. It will help you slice the smoke bombs off their stems."

As Brittain threw rocks at the trees to knock off the smoke bombs, he moved closer and closer to his targets. He started to get really scared because he didn't want to get hit by a rock. After about fifteen minutes, he became used to the rocks flying over his head. Then, all of a sudden, he heard someone say, "Brittain! Heads up!"

As he looked up he saw a rock come down and hit him in the head. Brittain started to scream at the top of his lungs. His friend came over and said sorry over and over again. Brittain looked down and looked at the rock that had just hit him; it looked like the rock he gave his friend.

When the teacher came she walked over to him and took him to her seat. She asked what happened. She got Brittain an ice pack and let him hold it to his head.

But to his amazement she didn't give him much comfort. She just sat there and watched the other kids play.

Because of this, Brittain cried for five more minutes.