you telling me that I am the only black?? Is that why so many of the students were staring at me??!!”
She sighed,“ You are not the only black. There is another black. A girl. She is in homeroom 113, the one on the left of ours. You are free to go now. I’ m glad we had this little talk.” She looked at him for a few more minutes before standing up. He got up, too.
As he was walking towards the girl’ s homeroom, Tanner and Gordon came up.“ Wazzup, Licorice Face?? Feeling a little dark today, eh?” Tanner teased.
Gordon looked at him and punched him. Not very hard, but it hurt anyway.
“ This is the everyday life of being black in Crystal Jr!” They said. Then they walked away, laughing their heads off.
The black girl heard the commotion, so she came out to see. When she saw it was a black boy, she smiled and helped him up.“ Hi,” she said,“ I’ m Kansas. What’ s your name?”
He looked at her. A grin slowly crept up his face.“ I’ m Brice. This is my first day. Everybody hates my guts. What am I
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