Mystery Boys

Last year Mr. Edgar had trouble.   with two of his students, Maron Anderson and D'Angelo Hickson. They used to tease and pick on a classmate named Mark Roy because he was the only white boy in the school. Mark is a twelve-year-old white boy with short blonde hair who had just transferred there last year. In the first week, he'd thought everything had gone well for him. Mark Roy was not a troubled boy. He was lonely, and timid. He did not socialize much with others. Mark always kept to himself and did not bother anyone. Things did not go so well that Mark had expected it would. After the first week, Mark always sat in front of  Mr. Edger's class, and he sat right next to the teacher's desk. Mark was never tardy nor missed a day in the first week he attended. Maron and D'Angelo were the ones who used to be tardy and skipped their classes all the time. They both always sat in the back of the classroom making Jokes about Mark. They always joked and made racial comments about him. 

       "Hey Mark? This really ugly dark girl sitting next to me said she wanna hola at you," D'Angelo said pointing at the girl.

        Everyone laughed. Mark didn't pay any attention to what D'Angelo said. He just wanted to stay focused on Mr. Edger's lectures. 

        "Quit bothering him," Mr. Edger said with a serious look on his face. 

         "I'll quit fu**in with the boy," D'Angelo said.

         "You better watch your filthy mouth boy, before I take you to the bathroom and rinse your dirty mouth out with soap," Mr. Edger said.

After Mr. Edger had warned him, D'Angelo did not say a word after that. 

            "See, when I was coming up and said a bad word and if our parents would hear us, they would take us to the bathroom and they would rinse our mouths out with soap, especially my mother, " Mr. Edger said.

             "For real?" D'Angelo said, looking shocked. 

             "Yeah for real, I am being honest with you guys. We didn't use any profanity when we got angry. I was brought up in a strict religious family. Back then, our parents considered bad words like stupid, fool, ugly, lying, and p**k, as filthy words, " Mr. Edger said standing in front of his desk.

         "I don't believe that," Maron said. 

         "Believe it or not, it happened." Mr. Edger said.