Wish

I looked back down at the paper in front of me. I was supposed to fill in all this stuff so my new teacher could get to know me.
On the line beside Describe your family, I wrote, “Bad.”
What is your favorite subject in school? “None.”
List three of your favorite activities. “Soccer, ballet, and fighting.”
Two of those favorite activities were lies but one of them was the truth.
I am fond of fighting.
My sister, Jackie, inherited Daddy’s inky black hair and I inherited his fiery red temper. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard “The apple don’t fall far from the tree,” I’d be rich. Daddy fights so much that everybody calls him Scrappy. In fact, at this very minute, while I’m stuck here in Colby, North Carolina, surrounded by hill billy kids, ole Scrappy is back in Raleigh in the county jail again because of his fondness for fighting.