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She glanced up at Trev, then frowned at the rip in her jeans. 'I think it might've been Buddy and his friends.' |
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'Buddy Gilbert,' Trev said. |
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'Yeah. See, he didn't like it when I broke up with him. Then there was the dance after the game last night. In the gym? Buddy came in with his friends. They were all drunk, you know? Buddy tried to cut in and dance with me and I told him, you know, to get lost. And he started . . . He got real nasty. He called Maxwell . . . like every name in the book. You know?' She raised her eyes to Trev as if curious to see his reactions. 'Nigger, coon, jigaboo, spade, spear-chucker, jungle bunny. That kind of thing? And he got really crude about how black people are supposed to have bigger dicks?' |
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'Jesus, Lisa!' her mother snapped. |
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'Well, he did. Like that was why I dumped him for Maxwell.' |
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'You don't have to announce it to the goddamn world!' |
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'It's all right,' Trev told the girl. 'What happened then?' |
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'Well, Maxwell just stood there and didn't say anything, and Mr Shermanhe's the vice principal?he came over and kicked Buddy and his friends out.' |
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'Do you know the names of Buddy's friends?' |
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'Sure. Doug Haines and Lou Nicholson.' |
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