One Day At A Time

|Chapter 27|

Ava

"Y'all sit outside and let the adults handle this." Ms. Marshall says making me shake my head.

I wanted to stay with my daddy. I wanna go home I don't want to be here anymore. I hate school and I never wanna come back.

"Go head baby." My daddy taps my leg.

"Noooo!" I yell, starting to cry some more.

"Aight how bout I stand by the door? That way if you need me ima be right there okay?"

I think about it for a while but then I nod my head and stand up, making my way out of the disciplinarian office and into the main office. I sit in the chairs right outside of the door while Saniya sits on the other side of the room where you first come in the office. I should beat her up again for what she said, but my daddy standing right there. I can't even think right because every time I think about something my mind brings me to what happened at recess. I wonder where Zamora went.

I wanna think something happy.

30 minutes ago

"Ouu I'm full." I say, sitting my fork down.

"Me too." Zamora says, doing the same.

We were at lunch, and since our class was one of the first to come since our class is on the first hall, we ate first. That's the only thing I like about being on the first floor.

"Wanna get on the swings?" I ask.

"Our food gotta digest girl." She makes a face before laughing.

Little ole Mora, never taking risks, and follows all the rules. I do too, just not the dumb stuff about swimming after eating and laying down while eatin. I lay down and eat my chips all the time and looka me, perfectly fine.

"Okay how about we walk slow to the swings that way our food can have enough time to digest."

"Alright." She shrugs her shoulders, getting up.

I get up while drinking some more of my milk and then throw my food away in one of the many big garbage cans. We walk out the door and then like we agreed upon before, we walk slow. We go around the blacktop where the boys are playing basketball to pass by more time, and then we get on the swings.

"I'm surprised nobody on the swings." Zamora says starting to push herself.

"Me too. It usually be buku people out here waiting for their turn on the swing."

We continue to talk as we compete to see who can go the highest. Since Zamora won, we stop swinging and let ourselves slow down so that we can start over.

"Hey orphan." Saniya says making me roll my eyes.

Saniya is this dumb girl in my class who just a hater. She always calling me a orphan saying that my mama and daddy don't really love me and they gonna give me up soon. Then she be saying other stuff, but I be trying to ignore her like the teacher say.