August, 1986
Kenai:
The sound of his headphones weren´t enough to shut up the scandal of the idiots from the back of the school bus.
"I told you Max, Indians used to dance and scream all night long to show their respect to the spirits"
"No they didn't" Max said in response to Flash.
"They did"
"You´re making it up!"
"Kenai, Kenai!"
Kenai listen to Flash but he decided to not pay attention to him, sometimes if you didn´t paid attention to him, Flash selected another victim. Kenai remembered that one time when they were on Elementary School and some kid had the balls to tell Flash that if he "knocked up Charlotte", Flash girlfriend, the baby will be so big that it will blow out Charlotte´s stomach, like the Xenomorph from Alien. Flash punch the kid on the face so hard that nearly knocks down all the teeth from the kid mouth. ..
Kenai decided to put that memory away and better be focused on his music.
Tomorrow he will bring Skinny Puppy or Misfits. Or maybe he will make a cassette tape for the school bus. New Wave could wait until November, when he will get his driving license…
A ball of paper hit him on the crown of his head…
"Shit" though Kenai.
"Kenai!"
"That was my Sexual Studies homework you asshole" screamed Charlotte.
Kenai looked to Flash, tall, brown hair, tanned and handsome, the star of the football team, Charlotte on the other hand… Beautiful, blond, with skin as white as snow and gorgeous blue eyes…
Flash and Charlotte seem to be the perfect couple.
Kenai took off his headphones.
"What?" asked Kenai.
"Tell Max that Indians used to dance and scream all night long to show their respect to the spirits"
"What is he going to know about Indians?"
"Em… that HE´S and Indian" said Flash making a point "Without offend Kenai, I mean just look at him!"
Max looked to Kenai who just smiled.
"Oh you´re right, sorry Kenai, I thought you were Mexican"
"You mother-fucker racist!" said Flash punching him on the arm "Tell him Kenai, tell him about Indians dancing and screaming all night"
"Sorry, I never heard of that" added Kenai.
He wasn´t an Indian, Indian were the people that came or were born in India, Kenai was an Inuit, or better be said, he had Inuit blood, after his grandparents came to life to Nebraska some years ago, Kenai´s father have met a beautiful woman who had been born on town, after some dates the two got marry and then Sitka, Kenai´s eldest brother, had been born, then Denahi and then Kenai and finally Koda, so Kenai and his brothers were half Inuit half American.
Flash sighed in disappointment and Charlotte take part of the conversation.
"Inuit, Kenai and his family are Inuit, not Indian you dick!" Charlotte scolded Flash.
"Whatever" said Flash.
Charlotte sighed in annoyance and looked to Kenai.
"Kenai, would you mind" she said pointing at the ball of paper that Flash had thrown him before.
Kenai took it and throw it to Charlotte, she catch it on the air.
"Thank you" she said.
Kenai smiled and looked to the front again.
The bus make a stop and a new kid, a girl, entered to the bus, everyone kept silent but was Charlotte who was trying to hold in a laugh.
Dark skinned, brown short curly hair and a… an actually pretty green eyes, the new girl seemed to be the perfect target for jokes… not to said that she was wearing men cloth, and it was too much big for her…
She walked trying to find a sit but everyone put their backpacks beside them, not letting the new girl to sit.
Kenai didn´t knew what to do…
"If someone´s in trouble, you should help them Kenai" he knew that Sitka will said something like that, but on the other hand… when you own a sit you own it and also, he didn´t want to share it with the new girl…
"Hey, found a sit so I can go on!" said the driver, a fat old man.
The girl looked desperately were to sit, she finally saw an empty sit near the back of the bus; she smiled and walked to it.
"Go back!" though Kenai.
"Hey!" Charlotte exclaimed when the girl was about to sit "That sit is for Sam, not for you!"
"I need were to sit" the new girl said calmly.
"I don´t care, find another sit!"
"We need to go! Just sit!" the driver screamed, his artificial pacemaker was about to blow.
"Shit! Shit! Shit! Sitka I damn you for raising me so well!"
Kenai moved to the other side.
"Sit" he said to the new girl.
She looked at him with surprise, not knowing if he was meaning it of he was joking.
"Are you dumb or what?! Sit!" Kenai screamed.
The girl throw a deadly look at him, but she sit immediately, she didn´t said thank you, she didn´t even saw him, she just sit down and looked to the window.
The bus then put on march and then Kenai waited for the world to fall over him…
Tip:
Tip evaluates all the possibilities:
Call mom to pick her from school. Pros: A lot. Against: She was working.
Walk to her new home. Pros: Exercise and fresh air. Against: She didn´t knew her new address.
Call his father…never.
She was sit on the stairs of cement that precede the school entrance, looking at the school buses, the one she will have to took was in front of her, the number 666.
But even if she avoided the bus today, and even if a fairy godmother came and turn a pumpkin into a beautiful carriage, she will have to take the bus tomorrow and the day after that one.
And it was clear that the "sons of the devil" weren´t going to be on a better mode tomorrow, she wasn´t surprised that everyone loosed their head when she go on the bus, she was used to it, after all, a black girl was always the subject of cruel jokes. Everyone on the bus had hated Tip when they saw her.
Especially the blonde girl from the last line, Tip could swear she had saw horns on her head, while his boyfriend seemed like the incarnation of Tim Curry in Legend, the movie she and her mom had saw on theatres last year.
But about the boy who had let her sit beside him… she didn´t knew what to think about him.
Broad nose, brown slanted eyes, black raven hair and medium brown skin, maybe he was Asian, she didn´t knew exactly, it wasn´t like she care about…
He had let her sit beside him... but he had been rude to her, maybe he was just another idiot (but not so idiot, he was with her in two advanced classes) Tip´s mother had done all for her daughter to be in two specialized classes after she got an A on algebra last year.
"I don´t know why are you so surprised, she´s a wonderful student" had said her teacher before they move away.
Yes, good student, not so much for making friends.
The door opened and someone knocked her backpack to the ground, Tip stood and took her backpack, she was about to said she was sorry when she saw it was the boy, he frown and she make a face, he go out running.
"Whatever" though Tip "The sons of the devil aren´t going to be hungry because of me"