"Girl some people so bold. Why Alyssa had the audacity to ask me for a ride home?" I told Adonna on our way into lunch.

"I cannot with her." She shook her head laughing.

"Speaking of the devil." I nodded my head towards Alyssa who was coming in our direction.

"Hey girls. So I was wondering...how can I apologize for the other day? I don't want you guys to have the wrong impression of me. I was uneducated on how harmful certain words can be."

"To be honest ion think you was uneducated at all. I think you just thought you could get away with it. Just because you don't experience shit don't mean it's not harmful. It's a new day in age, you choosing to be ignorant and I refuse to be an enabler. If keep letting your slick shit slide you gone try it on every black girl who let you. You constantly saying offensive stuff then either downplaying it or playing the victim. That was the last straw for me. Somebody some day gone stump a mud hole in yo ass for playing with them and you gone deserve it too. Stop playing with people."

Me and Adonna walked off and left her standing there looking like a fish out of water.

"FUCK YALL THEN STUPID BLACK BITCHES." She yelled behind us and all I heard was a slam.

"DAMN." Somebody yelled.

"BITCH I DONT PLAY BOUT MY RACE." This girl yelled beating the shit outta Alyssa. As she should.

"I told her somebody was gone stump a mud hole in her ass." I shook my head recording.

"DRAG HER ASS!!" Some dude yelled.

Next thing you knew ole girl was dragging her like a rag doll. Chile this school got hella black people, she finna be miserable here.

Once administration broke up the fight me and Adonna went to the McDonald's that's not too far away to get some food.

"I can't wait till we start practicing next week." Adonna said.

"Forreal, it's been too long."

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After that fight the day went by pretty fast. I was ready for last block because it doesn't really require much.

"Okay class your first two assignments will be turned in today. You were probably wondering why you learned about Romeo and Juliet and then World War 1 well....I wanted you guys to get comfortable with your partners because from this moment forward every thing will be opinionated. The first two lessons were to warm you guys up and make sure your doing your presentations correctly. From now on you're going to tell your partners your opinions on all kinds of controversial topics. Birth control, gun laws, presidents, political figures, and more. The goal is for you to research these topics, then discuss. Their will no longer be guided questions, your just gonna debate and ask your own questions. Write down all your important things and that'll be your presentation."

"So you tellin me I watched that whole damn Romeo and Juliet movie for nothin? That shit boring." Some boy blurted out and Chris started laughing.

"How the groups gonna work if we just giving our opinions, I thought it was research based." Adonna asked and I nodded in agreement. Ms.Hale put up her index finger signaling for Adonna to wait.

"Since you wanna be funny bring y'all project ima grade that first. Chris since it's so funny you and Mariah next." The teacher called out making me mug Chris. He sucked his teeth beginning to pull out our stuff and I pulled out all the paper stuff. "And to answer your question Adonna it's research based because I won't be providing you any information on these people or topics. It's your jobs to dig below the surface and find out the good as well as the bad before giving your opinions. Also, A and B groups are researching different topics. Next semester you'll be trying to convince the other group to see your opinions on things and you'll debate people/topics."

This too many damn instructions for us to not even be that far into the school year.

The teacher hooked their work up to the promethium board making everyone look at the presentation. The whole thing took about 10 minutes and Mrs.Robertson started grading their stuff out loud. Ima beat Chris ass if she do that to us then say something bad.

"Your work was mediocre at best. Questions were left unanswered, you didn't go into detail on any of your opinions, and their was no aspect of disagreement, it's like whatever the first person said the second one agreed. Your about to graduate, you should be able to hold an intellectual conversation as well as disagree. If you agree with your partner, add on. Mariah and Chris your turn."

"I emailed you our presentation." Chris spoke so I just brought her the paper stuff.

"I labeled the posters and stuff so you can see which slides they go with."

I went sit back down watching the presentation play. Honestly, I've never really seen the finished product he kinda just finished his part and I finished mine towards the end.

When she got to the audio debate I cringed. Having your voice replayed in class lowkey embarrassing for no reason.

"Hmm...it's good. I've never had students use audios of themselves before but I like it. It's different. Moving forward I'd like if the research was physical and the opinions were digital if you decide to keep doing both. However, it's only necessary that you have all the information so it's okay if you stick to either or. Which would honestly probably be easier. "

She went through the rest of class and at the end she told us our topic to research was Mother Teresa. Yeah boy, I watched a tik tok bout her ass the other day. I'm prepared.

We planned to do our research at my house after school today since his moms off.

"I'm ready for this damn class to end. Last block always make me sleep for some reason." Adonna complained.

"Surprisingly I don't mind this class. We basically getting a grade for having opinions, thats light work." I shrugged.

"Fuck allat, I'm shocked y'all stubborn asses ain't argue the whole time. That civilized conversation y'all threw in there was shocking" Luke added and I rolled my eyes.

"I ain't stubborn." Chris said and I agreed.

"Exactly, im far from stubborn."

"Y'all been arguing for damn near 5 years over some petty shit. Y'all definitely stubborn." - Adonna

"Whatever."

"Aye yall seen that fight this morning?" - Luke

"Yup, I recorded it."

"Lemme see. I heard bout it but ian see." - Chris

I showed him and Luke the video and Ms.Robertson cleared her throat. "Y'all have projects to work on, might wanna get started."

"If I wanted to get started i woulda started." Luke mumbled and I held back a laugh.

"Ight Chris, I saw this tik tok talking about how people weren't taught the truth about mother Teresa and how she was basically scamming people out they money. Think it said something bout her mistreating sick people too. Now don't quote me too exact because i saw it a few weeks ago. I think we should look into it tho, cause ion want paint her out to be some saint that she wasn't. The tik tok had some evidence in it so ima look for it and we could verify everything."

"You deadass? I thought she was some sweet old lady who heal people or sum like that. I'm not Catholic so ion really know the specifics."

"Me either, so we really gotta research this one. Plus, I would hate to disrespect peoples religion."

"Ion wan make her a saint if she's not one...but when it comes to religion some people might find it offensive regardless."

"If we could back up what we say then I really don't care."

After school I dropped of Adonna, then me and Chris started on our research. Once 5:30 rolled around I told Chris I had to bring him home because I agreed to meet Christina today instead. He told me to tell him how it goes but ion know if ima do that.

"Okay, so when are you free again?" I asked Chris.

"Tomorrow, gotta be at my house tho."

"That's good with me."

As we were getting into the car, a random car pulled up and I looked at the car confused.

"That bx clean. I know that engine got some power." Chris mumbled to himself.

Christiana knocked on my car window making me roll down the window.

"Sorry we're early, Dan had a scheduling issue and now was the best time. I hope that's okay."

"Umm...I gotta bring him home. He does not live far I can just meet y'all wherever we're going."

"Can I steal her ? I'll pay for you to get an uber."

I tried to tell Chris to say no with my eyes but this fucker said yeah. She handed him some bills for an uber.

"You sure you don't want me to bring you?" I asked.

"Yeah I'm sure."

I rolled my eyes and went with Christina. It wasn't that I was bothered going with her...it was more so I didn't like the idea of not being able to just up and leave if I need to.

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