The Day After
Dilyn couldn't sleep. As much as he had tried, he just...couldn't.
"What the f*** is wrong with me? She's just a colored girl...who just so happened to ruin my life," he complained while laying on his king-sized bed.
"No talking, boy! It's after midnight!" Dilyn's father shouted from his room.
"Yes, Father!" he shouted back.
He had to get revenge on her somehow.
Elizabeth Freeman, long time no see. he thought.
He thought about her for a moment. Ovular face, round cheeks, full lips. Her skin, not dark, but not light, either. It was like the perfect blend of light and dark, black and white. Gray. She also had a wild mane of long hair that she had difficulty keeping under control. But it was her eyes that fascinated him the most. They were brown, of course, but they were a deep brown, full of untold secrets.
"Why am I thinking about some measly colored? I've got Lizzy to worry about."
Lisabelle Leslie Lewis, a clever brunette who absolutely adored the color green, had been Dilyn's girlfriend since the fifth grade.
As the sophomore class president and president of just about every committee and club in the school, she was powerful. Not just at school, but in society.
Lisabelle's father, Lester Lewis, earned great respect in their community by being a prominent KKK member. He had also passed his hatred for "coloreds" to his daughter Lisabelle, and to his son Lyndyn, a senior at Lisabelle's high school.
Because Lisabelle would talk nonstop about the lynchings and attacks on black men in her county, Dilyn had formed an idea. One to make Elizabeth pay for what she had done to him. And what she had done, you may ask? He had absolutely no clue.
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Dilyn walked into school with a proud, arrogant smirk on his face. Before heading to Math 10/11, he stopped to greet Lizzy with a kiss on the cheek and a message written on a piece of paper.
Hey Lizz,
How about we give little Elizabeth
A gift?
Meet me after school in the
Soccer field.
-D
She looked up at him, startled, then smiled.
"No problem," she said.
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After school had ended, Dilyn rushed to the soccer field to meet Lizzy.
She turned to face him.
"What's the plan?" she asked.
"Got a rope and some fabric?"
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RomanceA faint memory. An unbroken promise. After her father's lynching, Elizabeth Annabelle Freeman stopped trusting white people. Her mother made sure of it. Being the one of the only black students in an all-white high school, Elizabeth dealt with verba...
