Summary

Rocky opens the paper and Tariq’s story is the main headliner. Rocky wishes he’d never gone out of the shop to try and get Tariq to turn back for his change. The papers have gotten it all wrong. They keep saying that Rocky was yelling, “Stop Thief!” when in reality all he’d been saying was, “Come back, Tariq.” The headline states that Tariq was, indeed, unarmed. At least they got that right, thinks Rocky. Other reports in other papers, however, state that T had a gun, that he was a gang member, that he was a career felon. Rocky doesn’t know what to believe anymore.

Will feels that he’s in a hard place. His grades are really good, and he knows how to speak correctly. But, if he wore the nice preppy clothes that his parents want him...