. Maybe she had

th the most motherly voice she

ous decision to declare open season on my life? In case you hadn’t n

eyes. ‘If anything like that happens, my boy, just remember tha

her a quick nod before stepping ou

ould bump into him over and over again like he was one of those walkthrough doors at the mall. The sign, “We

n see. To both the left and right sides of the hallway were various rooms and what looked like the students’ lockers. There were hundreds of pos

through the hallway. He was not even sure of where he was going. There was way too much

robot from the future. He looked up into the corner of the wall at the far end of the corridor. It was the siren. Like a disturbed colony of ants, the students began to rel

they had a mind of their own. She had a narrow face and a sparkling smile that made her look oddly naïve. She was wearing a jean jacket on top of a pink velvet top. She also had on a pair of denims that gave her hips a suggestive sort

ooked as

bject,’ she said jerking her head

never been in the presence of a white girl before, or anyone his age for that matte

aled, ‘that’s where I’m at.’ She walked five steps in front of him. She stopped an

een the two as they made their way towards class. Th

arking the register. The girl walked in first and a

er black person in sight. Out of at least thirty-something students and not one shared his colour? The students were sitting behind wooden desks with

name. His brown-striped orange tie hanged loosely on his neck like a noose, wrapped around the collar of a blue long-s

nervously trying not to respond to the hundreds of pairs of eyes staring hard at him. He did not have to see them; he could feel the

!’ the teacher

back onto the floor again. When he attempted to pick it up, he knocked his head against the sharp edge of th

still very much alive. He tried his best to keep his eyes away from theirs. They settled on a familiar face. It was the girl he had met

ng us today,’ he added before putting his glasses back on. His face was festered with light-orange spots. His bony face, with the addition of the thoughtfu

ding the smirks and glare

i revealed his atrocious