Colored

Color among a white wasteland

Bull looks at me. "Since it has been a day since you have lost you lost your parents, you will start working on Monday. " He tells me and gets up, leaving the room. A white maid takes away his food. Reese looks at me. "I'm really sorry, about what happened." He says to me. "We all are. Laurel made this for you." He gives me a card. It was so sweet. It said that everything would be okay. I smile at Laurel. "That's so sweet! Thank you!" I says truthfully. I will befriend them. I just can't get too close to them. "You um... you look gorgeous." Alex says to me. "Well you always do, I mean." He scratches the back of his neck. Reese laughs. "Yeah you do look nice. I think you charmed Lexi here." I blush. "Um thank you." I say to them. I remember that the blush would hardly show on my skin, but shine on theirs. It's not their fault. I remind myself that. Rocky just stares at me. He hasn't talked at all since we started eating. I decide not to push him. "I have a question." I say to them all. "Why is everyone here white?" I ask even though I know the answer. It was because of their uncle, Bull. They stay silent. I get up. "So my sister and I are color on a white wasteland, then." I walk out. Tears threaten to spill. Colored people are nothing. I hear Alex call out to me. "Hey wait!" I stop expecting him to beat me if I didn't listen. I turn to him. "Y-Yes?" I ask, my voice breaking. He looks down at me and brings me in for a hug. I hug him back, sobbing into his shoulder. I pull away shortly after. "I'm sorry. My parents used to say that we were just colors on a white wasteland. " He smiles at me. "It's okay. That must be really hard, losing your parents. The KKK must have done it. We will find the people who planted the bomb." No you won't. My parents were just colors, whited out on the wasteland. "Hey how about you come watch a movie with us? It will be in my room." I nod my head and wave to him. I walk into my room. I am nothing. I am colored. I am not white, therefore I have no meaning in this supposed "free country". I am color among a white wasteland.