He was a brown-skin kid with a low-cut fade and dark brown
eyes that were easily hidden underneath his squinty lids. He was considerably
short for high-school boy standards. I mean, so short that if he and I stood
face-to-face we could make direct eye
contact and I was and still am 5 foot 2 inches tall. He was quiet and kept such
a low profile that, to be quite honest, up until our senior year, I didn't even
realize that he and I went to the same school. He didn't play football,
basketball or participate in any traditional extracurricular activities that
would indicate his status, which meant he and I never crossed paths. Even his
walk was easily forgettable. The only reason that I knew of his existence was
due to the fact that he and I had attended Volney Rodgers Junior High School
together and he’d had a slight crush on me back in the day. I wasn't interested back then and
for obvious and admittedly very very shallow reason still wasn't much interested or so I thought...............
