Setting:

This chapter begins in the high school hallway with students at their lockers.

The scene changes into a high school classroom with algebra problems written across the board.

The next scene is in the stall of a girl's restroom with graffiti covering the walls.

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Images:

"The bell rings and I rush to class with the elephant herd..."

( Sandra in the bathroom stall reading graffiti and crying)

"So I watch her doing her walk, on her way back from the dodega, in her tight red dress: ping-pong, ping-pong, go her hips, and tap-tap-tap, her high heels beat time on the sidewalk-its like shes a one-woman salsa band. Horns blow, men whistle, woman look back, some smile and others frown."

"I smell Passion crawling like an invisible snake up the stairs. It creeps through the cracks and into our apartment even before she makes her entrance."

"But when he jumps like a ballet dancer into the air, with the ball on the tips of his fingers."