Monday, March 3, 2014

Devil in a dress: Preview



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...............

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