“Quick put the candy away. Here comes Hissy,” said Jane. Katie put the lollies in her apron pocket as Hissy skip his way to her.

  “What are you to doing in here, everyone else is outside playing games,” said Hissy hoping that no one would notice he was missing from his classmate’s party.

“Katie and I were asked to help set up and keep an eye on the food,” said Jane. Katie lent back and miss judged the table and her foot got tangled and she dropped to the floor.

“Oh, dear Katie are you ok?” asked Jane. Hissy startled on his feet and then reached over to help Katie up.

“I think so, once I’m up,” replied Katie. Just in that moment when Hissy reached out his hand, a bag toppled out of Katie’s apron.

“What are you hiding?” said Hissy. “Is that candy?”

Jane grabbed the bag and said, “no” to Hissy.

“Why are you keeping them away from me? That’s mean.”

“We hid them because we know what you are like around sugar,” said Katie. “Do you remember that day at my place near the pool you became that hypo that your head was shaking in tune with a rattlesnake’s tail.”

Hissy Slumped on the floor and threw his shoulders forward. No matter how much Hissy tried he had a insatiable craving for anything sweet. One time his mother was so distraught that she admitted Hissy to the hospital in hoping to get some answers to why he never seemed to improve his diet and craving for everything sweet. Hissy’s mother’s house is like a treasure hunt with all the locations. Most recently she changed to buying most of the sugar items last minute or not at all.

Next day at school the kids all huddled around the birthday boy and peered into his lunch box. From a distance Hissy looked up and skipped his way towards them. 

“Idee ho. Idee ho, I wonder what’s going on over there.” He sang as he made is way over and Just as Hissy got to the birthday boy, Hissy stretched his neck over the over boys and he his eyes widened the size of saucers of a large tin of mixed lollies.

“Can we have one?” the boys asked. “Yeah, but don’t tell Hissy as we will be all missing class this afternoon as these lollies would sure send his blood sugar up.”

“Hey, Bille are you being mean?’ asked Hissy.  The boys reached down for a candy bar.

“Opps Hissy, looks like it’s too late to hide these now.”

“Thanks,” said Hissy and grabbed the biggest picnic bar in the tin and waved it in the air as all the other kids chose snack sizes because it was Billies birthday gift.

Once back in the classroom, Hissy was kicking the chairs around and the rest of the kids in the room pushed them back the second he moved on to the next chair. Then the teacher walked in and said, “What’s going on in here? Sounds like a herd of sheep in the shearing shed scrambling around in the pens.”

The boys froze and the girls looked on as they knew Hissy’s blood sugar was now spiking higher each minute. Hissy climbed the chairs and tables as though he was a monkey. The teacher walked to his desk while Hissy stood on the table and thumped his chest.

“Ra Ra Ra Ra.” Hissy’s head was shaking uncontrollably when Katie and Jane walked along the hallway and turned to look through the glass window to see Hissy behaving like a gorilla in the local Zoo. The girls turned and bolted through the door to Hissy.

“Hey Hissy, get down now. You need to come outside with us. Your blood sugar has gone through the roof and then we will call your mum,” said Katie.

“Tra ala laa la la I’m the king of this school and I’m not going to listen to you two twits,” said Hissy.

“Get down now,” said Jane. Jane’s eyes narrowed and her arm reached out and she grabbed him on the wrist. Hissy pulled and pulled and then Katie grabbed the other wrist, and they guided him down off the table and out into the hallway. Katie and Jane could feel the blood running through Hissy’s veins and his body was jolting in places. The girls kept their hands on his wrist until Hissy began to calm down.

“Good job girls,” said the teacher as he popped his head out the door. “You girls seem to know how to calm Hissy down.” The girls grinned and nodded at the teacher.

“That’s better Hissy, the shaking is going away, boy was that close,” said Jane.

“Yeah Jane, I thought we would need to ring his mother, but I think he’ll be ok,” said Katie. “How funny it was we just happened to come past at the right time.”

“Whoa let go of me.” As Hissy pulled away. “I am okay now.” The girls let go of Hissy’s wrists and patted his shoulder and watched him go back into the classroom.