Summary

The next Friday, Holly encouraged Haley to tell her story to the group. Haley was nervous as she pressed the button on the recorder, but tried to remind herself that these were her friends. As she was about to begin, Esteban said he had another poem from his father. He read it first in Spanish and then in English. The poem was about the detention center and how when the guards called for lights out, all the men answer back in their many languages, creating a beautiful song. Everyone loved the poem. When he was finished, Haley stood up and said she wanted to tell them all her story, about her father and mother, what happened to her when she was little, and when she first met Holly's mom. She first met Holly's mom, Kira, after Kira offered to help her uncle with...