Mid-morning study session

I’m sitting in the shade of the school building reading when I see the group of four students who have wandered over from the primary school at the other end of the meandering dirt path that runs north from my middle school. They are standing around the corner of the building where they think I can’t see them watching me. One steps closer cautiously. She momentarily makes eye contact with me then runs back to her friends giggling nervously. I return to the page of We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families I was reading.

Word has gotten around there’s a Yovo at CEG Mayamon.