I rode her a few more times, and then we returned her to Beezie and I said goodbye. Beezie invited me to come ride again, and I knew I would. It was the beginning of October, and it was really feeling like fall. I was already behind at school; I didn’t feel too good about that. I had been reading the books Ms. Cash told me to read, but my midterm paper was late. She told me she wanted it done in two weeks or I was going to fail. I stayed up and wrote it in one night and then turned it in the next day. I hadn’t been speaking to Donald or Melinda at all. I was hardly ever home. One night when I was there, they called me into the living room and sat me down. Donald said he was planning to take that job in Bakersfield once it was official. My mother looked excited, and she let him do all the talking. “Sidney, there are opportunities there for all of us,” he said. I laughed. “I ain’t going to California,” I said. “You will if your mother tells you to. You’re fourteen years old and you do as she says.”
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