The narrator tells us that he's been bullied since he was a kid. He's now 13 years old, and he'd like to be friends with some of the boys in his neighborhood. The boys are tommy, the twins, and Robert. They've been bullying him for a long time, and now they're starving. The narrator begs them to give him some money so he can buy food for school. They refuse, and the narrator tells them that if they don't pay him protection money, he'll give them a girl to be his girlfriend instead. He tells the boys that he can protect them for free if they just want to buy food. He says that he brought two purses, one for himself and one for his friends, because being bullied taught him to bring one purse instead of two. Now he wants to protect the money he brought with him, too. He asks if the boys are his friends or his girlfriend, and they tell him that they are. He wants to know what's up, and asks if he can get his hair out of his face. They tell him to put it behind his back, and then he asks if it's okay to put his hair behind his eyes. He doesn't want to be bullied, he says, because he has been bullied many times before.