.."The Black men here are so different from the ones back home," Fatima said to Ahmad Ali one day as they walked around the Bay Shore Mall, and were s...ocked to see a young Black Muslim man holding hands with his Arab girlfriend or wife and their son. In Arab countries, it was common to see Arab men with Black wives and Black girlfriends because that's the way things worked. In the western world, where the Black man's athleticism and sexual prowess were the stuff of legend, even Arab women were. . There were some nice buns down there on the floor, and a bit of banter once she was noticed, but she couldn't really hear it. She shifted back and forth between her homework and scoping buns, wondering if she was attracting any attention.Relatively quickly, it became apparent that she had Dwayne's. Ted was flashing an occasional glance her way, but she didn't care for his supercilious expression. Dwayne's eyes kept coming back, though, and Darla Jean encouraged him by looking back, which just. A small black and embryonic head bobbed near our brilliant orange marker, oddly fragile in that harsh sea. ‘Baby sea lion,’ my captain announced with wonderment in his voice. Heedless of our observation, he circled the buoy and danced in the tossing waves. Reedy bleats vacillated between amplification and near-mute in that howling air. ‘Calling for its mother.’ I could see the adult, monstrously large in the distance. She cried to her pup, too wary to approach our boat. The pup seemed to hear. She averted her eyes from them and kept looking. She saw a few other people in their dorms but none of them were looking at her. A few people were outside but they were walking to their cars. She had no idea where Wesley could be, unless he was in one of those cars and she just couldn’t see him.When she looked back at the first room, she saw that a larger crowd of guys had gathered.“Damn,” Amaya whispered. “There are some boys staring at me.”Wesley laughed. “Then it’s a good thing you have your.