![]() However, both Devon and Chiamaka think that someone has a personal vendetta against them, and they try to find out who is behind Aces.Ī tech student helps them trace the texts from Aces and they learn that Aces uploads the texts once a week on Sundays from computer 17 in Morgan Library. Devon begins spending time with Terrell, who is adamant that Aces must be someone who is racist and targeting the only two Black students in school. Chiamaka started to develop romantic feelings for her. ![]() However, Headmaster Ward blames them for harassing one another and gives them both detentions, then demotes Chiamaka from head prefect.īelle broke up with Jamie and started hanging out with Chiamaka. After they go to the library to look at the folders from the USB, Chiamaka goes to Headmaster Ward and tells him that someone is harassing her and Devon. A boy from the neighborhood who Devon hardly remembers, Terrell, helps Devon gets home.Īces leaves USB sticks in Devon and Chiamaka’s lockers with information on them. When Aces contacts Dre and threatens to expose his drug dealing business, Dre breaks up with Devon and his gang members beat him up. ![]() Meanwhile, Devon’s illicit relationship with a local drug dealer, Dre, he occasionally works for to help his mother pay the bills is exposed by Aces. Over the next few days, Aces accuses Chiamaka of stealing candy and leaving the science cabinet open so that dangerous and expensive materials can be taken. The next day, a new text from Aces comes out telling the whole school that Chiamaka wanted to be with Jamie, but he chose Belle instead and she cried. Chiamaka thinks back to the worst moment of her life, when she was riding in Jamie’s car and he hit a girl, then they left her bleeding in the road. However, he tells her that he has fallen in love with Belle, and she is now his girlfriend. She has been in love with his since freshman year, and they hooked up all junior year in secret, but she wants him to make her his girlfriend. When she sees her best friend, Jamie, she gets butterflies. Chiamaka is excited to meet back up with her friends, who are all wealthy legacy kids that spend the summer camp. Next, they send a photo of Devon kissing football player Scotty, who is Chiamaka’s ex-boyfriend. On the first day of senior year, someone calling themselves Aces texts the entire school and says they are there to divide and conquer. She is named head prefect and dreams of going to Yale so she can become a doctor. Chiamaka, on the other hand, comes from a wealthy family and is the most popular girl in school. He is gay, but he is closeted because he worries his mother and the gang members from his neighborhood will judge him harshly for the truth. He plays piano and dreams of going to Julliard, but he does not have any friends. Devon is a scholarship student from the “bad side” of the unnamed town he lives in. They are both seniors at the elite private school, Niveus Academy. Kindle.Ĭhiamaka and Devon, the two protagonists, alternate between chapters that they narrate in first-person present. Even if they aren’t thinking it constantly, it’s in there somewhere.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah. Us Blacks, we start hating ourselves, and them whites start thinking they’re all better than us. You can’t escape a history like that and not be affected. I think anyone can be nice, but it’s not about being nice. Some might even treat you good, like an owner might treat a pet.” “That’s wild,” I say. If we can’t talk about it honestly, and I mean really talk about it, then what’s the point? I read some Malcom X last year, and I agree with him. ![]() The moment they decided they got to be white and have all the power and we got to be Black and be at the bottom, everything changed. We’re all in this bubble being affected by the past. But racism isn’t just about that-it’s not about being nice or mean. They don’t all have white hoods or call us mean things I know that. “It sounds wild, I know, but racism is a spectrum and they all participate in it in some way. I obviously don’t think they are all murderers, but I think they are all racist.” “All?” I say, eyebrows raised.
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