Vanessa reached up and touched her nose. It was bleeding! She climbed to her feet and then another girl pushed her back down. She looked up in surprise when Kaneeja grabbed her ponytail and began pulling so hard that it felt like she was being scalped.
"You think you cute! You ain't nothing but a trick baby!" Kaneeja said, wearing a scowl across her usually friendly face. "The only reason you and your mama live up on that hill is because she is a ho. My mama said that when she lived down here she always had men coming in and out of her apartment so she would just send you across the court to stay with them white people!"
Someone threw a snowball, which struck her in the side of the head. Since it was made up of mostly ice it stunned her and nearly knocked her out and it did knock her down.
"So what if our mama is on welfare?!" Someone hollered.