Chapter 13
When me and Phil got home from school Jason was already home. Phil asked him why he didn’t go to school and he said Mama told him that he didn’t have to go as long as he could tolerate the consequences. Mama was smilin’ so big when she told him to show us what the consequences was. He pulled his pants down and there was candy stripes all up and down his legs and his face was so sad. Mama said she gave him a choice and that was what he chose.
I am scared to death to go to middle school. It must be just awful for him to choose a whippin’ over goin’ to school. I would go to school even on Saturdays and Sundays just to keep from gettin’ whipped.
I don’t guess the Principal at Jason’s school thinks its okay to choose a whippin’ over school because he called Mama again and she told us she’s decided to send him to a new school called reform school. Me and Jason and Phil have all been cryin’ and cryin’ but Mama says just get over it.
I’m so mad at Jason. I wish he wasn’t even my brother because then I wouldn’t have to be worried about him all the time. I would be like, oh look at that boy who is being sent away to reform school somewhere that I don’t even know where it is and I don’t know when I’m gonna see him again. How sad. And then I could just watch Speed Racer or Popeye and forget about him.
