The random element was now gone: only the original three boys played and they only visited those girls who were both close to their own desks and whom they assumed would not complain. Tracey was one of these girls, as was I, and a girl from my corridor called Sasha Richards. The white girls—who had generally been included in the playground mania—were now mysteriously no longer included: it was as if they had never been involved in the first place.

