Dwayne

Dwayne had a mullet and a rat tail and a dumb accent and a chipped front tooth and a scrunched-up face full of freckles. He said the leather bag he brought to school was his dad's and that his dad had been a marine who'd been killed in the war and that it was better than a backpack. But it wasn't a backpack, and he didn't even have a trapper keeper, and all his books were used.

We knew our mission. We had to destroy him.

Second period, Preston got Dwayne on the floor and pinned his chest with his ...