Switched'

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CHAPTER TWO

| AMELIE | 17 years old |
| HARLEM, NY |

"CHILDREN!!!! PLEASEEEE CALM DOWN!!" My principal shouted at all of us. Some people were angry because Merri Hills High School were coming over to Merrillville High school which is the school I'm attending currently right now.

Merri Hills High School was filled with mostly rich White kids and a little bit of rich Black kids also.

Merrillville was a poor high school for poor people like me obviously.

Our school was a sh*t hole but it was so much fun because of the fights and mostly because no one listens at all, we can even do what ever we want.

Merri Hills high school was a private school with professional and classy uniforms and the kids there look more neat than us.

But we can't judge a book by its over. Rich kids party too even when no one is looking around.

Back to the point! My school is going to close down due to the bad reviews from parents and the DOE (Department Of Education).

But the principal from Merri Hills High School ended up buying our school from us.

I guess she felt bad about us being poor kids or she wanted to look good for the Black & Brown community.

I'm honestly glad she brought Merrillville High School. I personally didn't care for her reason anyway. 

I just didn't want to go through the paper work process of choosing another High school that was far as hell from Harlem, New York.

Merri Hills High School and Merrillville High School were the only schools we had in Manhattan, New York.

I'm pretty sure nobody's parents could afford to go to Merri Hills High school which is the main reason why we are being brought from the dam school in the first place.

"Guys we are trying our best to explain to y'all and y'all parents about this new school that's going to be switched on Monday . It's a Saturday and y'all are acting ghetto. Chile this is the main reason why we were brought from these people-" My light skinned principal smacked her teeth.

"Anyways you guys will have to wear their uniform and follow their new rules. No you guys wouldn't pay to go to this new school. It use to be a private school . Now the principal has decided to turn it into a public school. Our school campus will be shared with them starting on Monday. The students from there will be coming inside of our school too" she took a deep breath trying to speak some more but a group of annoying boys cut her off.

"YAYY FINALLY SOME SNOW BUNNIES!" some stupid boy shouted from the crowd, making the rest of the other boys cheered.

"Black boys are really the weakest links," Ksenia said, rolling her eyes.

"Tell me about it! I knew that they would of have been hyped about this. I mean none of the Black boys inside of this school don't even want to date us- I'm not even surprise" Maia preached.

"Girl with their colorist ass*s! I'm not even surprise they mostly mess with the lightest girls in our school. Now they have access to some White girls they happy" Ksenia responded making me shake my head at them.

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Monday was finally here and I was rushing early in the morning to put on my first uniform I ever wore in my life.

It was a white t-shirt and a dark blue skirt with a red lady tie for our necks. I guess we had to wear white stockings with it also.

In my opinion we looked like p*rnstars.