Chapter 3

“Elizabeth, you have a visitor,” Mom called out to me early in the morning. As I walked down to see who the visitor was, I met Ella, a member of the city college cheerleading team, seated on the couch.

“What's she doing here?” I wondered.

“Hi, Elizabeth,” Ella said, rising from the chair and holding a document in her hands. “The principal Weston assigned the whole school an assignment,” she explained.

“What kind of assignment?” I asked, while noticing my parents staring at us.

Ella suggested that we meet later at the college courtyard that day, after my classes had ended. Later that day, I left to meet her, and she was already seated on the wooden bench, waiting for me.

“Hey, thank you for coming,” she said, extending her hand to shake mine. “Actually, Elizabeth, it isn't Weston who needs your help,” she continued. “It is I who need your help.”