Me Dying Trial by Patricia Powell

Author:Patricia Powell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press

III

It usually take Peppy about thirty minutes to walk home from school each evening. And as she never have plenty friends living around her way, she walk by herself, cars and buses and trucks passing her by the roadside, school children in front and behind her, her mind occupied with the upcoming trip. Rudi just get another letter from the mother, and she send with it plenty forms, some affidavits of support, others just plain application and medical forms. She send money too, for passport pictures and physical examinations. Last week, Rudi ask her to bring Jeff and Rosa to the photography studio. Time soon come to leave, him tell her, while handing out the money.

And she remember feeling kind of glad about it, but also kind of cautious. She mention it to friends at school, but never with any extra eagerness, for things have a way to not always turn out quite the way one would want them. Peppy talk about in length to Jasmine though, for Jasmine travel plenty since her mother is a higgler woman, travelling to Miami and New York two and three times a month, so she can buy sneakers and jeans and sweat-shirt and pants and blender and pressure-cooker and sell them in the market at more bargainable prices. Since she the oldest, sometimes Jasmine travel with her.

And Jasmine tell her, ‘Yes, man, Peppy, you going to have a nice time,’ in her twang voice, for even though she only been to America three times, staying no more than five days the longest, Jasmine have a permanent Foreign accent. ‘And the best thing,’ Jasmine tell her, ‘is you don’t wear uniforms to school. You wear any Jesus Christ thing you feel. Even high heels and tube top.’ Jasmine eyes were twinkling when she say it. ‘You can burn your green tunic and white blouses before you leave.’

‘So I couldn’t even wear me uniform even if I wanted to?’ Peppy ask her friend out the corner of her mouth, for is not that her closet empty, but she don’t change shoes once a week like Jasmine. Furthermore that would mean her mother will have to buy her school clothes for is only yard clothes and church clothes she have plenty, not much going out clothes.

Jasmine laugh out loud. ‘Gal, you mad! Then you know what,’ Jasmine say to her after a pause in her sing-song Foreign twang, ‘you can eat bubble gum and sweetie in the classes.’

‘You lie!’ Horror form on Peppy’s face, her eyes roll over.

Jasmine kiss her teeth. The two of them were outside on the grass behind the classroom one mid-afternoon break time. Jasmine nod her head. ‘Yup! I went with my cousin up to her school. The children even rude to the teacher sometimes. You know how we have to stand up and say good morning every time a teacher come inside our class? Well, is not so over there, the children sit down on them tail same way and continue talking to one another.

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