Feathers
“One of the girls smiled at Sean and said, “What do you know good, pretty boy?” Sean’s hair was starting to get longer and that morning he’d picked it out into a short Afro. He was wearing a black turtleneck and his black peacoat, jeans and new boots. Earlier that morning, Mama had smiled at him, saying, You look like one of the Black Panthers, and Sean had given her the Black Power sign.
“Huh, pretty boy?” the girl said again. “You with the pretty hair and eyes.”
I didn’t know if I was ...more shocked by what she was saying or by the fact that they had just come up on us like that. I mean, girls looked at Sean all the time. And sometimes he tried to talk to them. But nobody had ever just walked up to us like that. And what if I had been his girlfriend? But Sean just smiled at her.
“You gonna tell a sister your name?” the girl asked. Her friend giggled but didn’t say anything. Sean looked at me and signed, Tell them.MoreLess
“Huh, pretty boy?” the girl said again. “You with the pretty hair and eyes.”
I didn’t know if I was ...more shocked by what she was saying or by the fact that they had just come up on us like that. I mean, girls looked at Sean all the time. And sometimes he tried to talk to them. But nobody had ever just walked up to us like that. And what if I had been his girlfriend? But Sean just smiled at her.
“You gonna tell a sister your name?” the girl asked. Her friend giggled but didn’t say anything. Sean looked at me and signed, Tell them.MoreLess
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