Chapter 3

There was this one time when she was about seven, and I was five. She had just had her first few piano lessons, and I was jealous as could be.

“Can you teach me some?” I asked her, and she had replied, “You see these keys? They each have a letter, and the letters spell out a phrase, an important phrase for boys, especially.” I preened and begged her tell me. Reluctantly, she had said, “Well, all right, it’s Every Good Boy Devours Flies.”

Twenty minutes later, I returned proudly and opened my mouth to show her what a good boy I was.

Smiling at the memory, I thought, Push it, bitch

After a while, old green eyes came in. This time, I caught a glimpse of his nametag, and it read “Monty,” a far cry from Mohammed, and I wasn’t sure if I cared or not if he had taken offense. He glared at me, and then his eyes rested on the man with the white face, who was chewing his fingernails.