He practiced and mastered a trick he’d seen a pro golfer do in a TV commercial, where he bounced a golf ball up and down on the head of an iron, over and over again. His little sister, Keisha, walked in on him practicing the trick and demanded to be taught how — so Malik decided it was something pretty cool. He also dusted off his juggling skills. Pretty soon, he could juggle four golf balls in the air. He colored them different colors with indelible markers, and pretty soon, he was ready to rumble. That Sunday, he went over to Luis’s house to show him his mad new skills, and to see how the T-shirts were coming. “Man, these are phat!” he said, holding one of Luis’s finished masterpieces. “I call this one.” “Nuh-uh,” Luis said, grabbing it back from him. “That one’s mine. You can have that one over there that’s drying. It’s cool, too. But this one was my first try, so I claim it.” On Monday, the two boys showed up at school with their hot new T-shirts.
