"That could say anything. If I can't read it..." ... then you need better glasses," I finished angrily without thinking and she swelled to her full h...ight. "It is clear what it said. I got it right. You got it wrong."The murmuring in the class stopped instantly as everyone turned to watch Mrs Buckingham and I glaring at each other. "Don't you speak to me like that," she shouted. "Get out," the poisonous teacher hissed and I grabbed my bag and strode across the classroom – I had every pair of. "Coach shrugged and stepped off to the side as Marilyn jumped in to a pick-upgame with a bunch of boys in the class. She didn't have much trouble gettinginto the game after nailing a fallaway jumper over the boys basketball team'sstar forward. "If she'd ever choose a gender," Coach thought, "she could verywell be all- city." That got Coach thinking back to the first time Coachfound out about Marilyn's condition...*************Coach stood around, taking attendance the first day of class.. Whenever I have something I’m not sure about or something I’m worried about, I go and talk to Daddy. It helps. It really does. Trust me. And besides, if you can’t go see them today, of all days...” Now she shrugged. “Look, if you really, really don’t want to go, then we’ll skip it. But I think you should. Even if it’s just for five minutes.”I nodded. It was all I could do. I didn’t trust myself to speak.The cemetery was on the edge of town, opposite The Rec. Clarissa parked by the squat. Naina's mind was not on her surroundings. It was on the new young attorney that had just been hired that day by the firm she worked for. She looked forward to working with him at the firm where she was a secretary. His name was James, and he looked so good to her. It was Friday evening and she had all weekend to day-dream about James before seeing him again at work on Monday.If she hadn't been day dreaming about the new lawyer, she may have paid more attention to where she was heading. She.