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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Me & Lay LI Ain’t Talking
& This Is Why I Think
& Lay LI Stay Grinning
Lay LI the Sun
Like That Time We Skipped School
Lay LI Smile at Curtis
Okay, So Boom. This Is How Lay LI & I Met.
Two Years Later & Lay LI Bathing Suit
I Put a T-shirt on Top
Basketball Drills #1
After My Drills
I Can’t Imagine
Don’t Nobody Want to Call It
On the Way to My House
Lay LI Laughs
I Move
Snitches
A Week Later
The Next Day at School
Basketball Drills #2
On the Weekend, I Go to the Mall with Essa & Inga
We Pull into the Parking Lot
She Points to the Group
My First Time Out with Clifton
The Rules Are Easy
So, When Clifton Asks to Use the Bathroom
Here I Go
Shawn Wants to Know About Curtis
But Curtis Let It Be Everybody’s Business
I Ain’t Never Been Good at Lying
Anyways, Like I Was Saying
But I Know Bad Game When I Hear It
When Kids Have
After Fourth Grade
My Big Cousin Inga Asks Me
So, When Clifton Says
Past the Bleachers
She Looks Me Hard in My Eyes
Will Never Be the Same
There Is a Rumor Going Around
I Figure It’s the Rumor
When a Rumor Hit the Wind
Have You Ever Started a Rumor?
When I’m on the Basketball Court
It’s Too Hot to Think About Thinking
The Asphalt Is Hot on My Sneakers
Tyrone Mad Cause It’s True
I’m Still Mad
I Don’t Realize I’m on the Porch of Lay Li’s House
I Finally Stand Up
I Just Want to Tell Lay LI
Lay LI Got a Way
Lay LI Says Google Makes
Now, When I Get a Chance to Have My First Kiss
Stories
Stories Like the Boys
Stories Like the Ones We Heard About Angel
Stories About Angel’s Mama
Stories Can Change Who You Are to Yourself
But I Think My Story About My First Kiss
The Thing
In the Closet I Sit & Wait for Adrian
Too
Here Come the Senior Boys
Remember When?
Remember When I Didn’t Have the Answer?
Remember When Lay LI Said
I Remember When It All Changed
Here Come the Valley High Boys
After the Ball Game, I Realize
Basketball Drills #3
Clifton & I Fall Off
At the Purnell Community Center
You Two Are Nothing Alike
Selfies Be Like
Kiyana Calls One of Them Kids
After We Leave
On the Corner
Because I Ain’t Dipped
Lay LI Doesn’t Notice My Shorts
Lay LI Opens Her Mouth & a Story I Ain’t Never Want to Hear
The Thing About the Truth
I Should’ve Known
Her Eyes Then Fixed
Like the Time
Lay Li’s Hands Speak a Language Too
It’s Finally Saturday
I Just Want to Hoop
Ain’t No More Playing Small
Tyrone Sees Me First
Today on the Court
About Friday Night
After a Pickup Game
The Next Morning
All the Things People Say to Me & About Me
Damn!
Inga Says
Sky Says
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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