Did you miss Part I, Part II or Part III?

Billy plopped down in the chair and breathed a big sigh of relief. He had just checked off the last chore on his list and he was exhausted. Grabbing the remote, he turned on the TV and clicked through the channels with no success. Finding an old black and white movie, he left it there and closed his eyes.

Billy Ryder was a misunderstood kid. He had been branded the “bad boy” of Edgemont, but in all fairness he was just an eleven year-old biy hurting from the loss of his dad. He hadn’t caused any real trouble anyway. A flat tire from a well-placed nail, or some candy taken out of Johnson’s Hardware. Of course, he had singlehandedly taken out the entire sixth-grade class in a surprise water balloon attack. Normal pranks that go unnoticed in large cities, but in Edgemont, it seemed that every one of the 753 citizens looked down their nose at little Billy Ryder. Well, all except three.

Tomorrow: Courage – Part V