Summary

In Chapter 9, as Zola, Todd and Mark continued to wait for news about Gordy, Zola told them her parents had been arrested and taken to a holding facility. They had been arrested by armed agents and given only an hour to pack what belongings they could carry with them.

Meanwhile, Brenda and he parents paid a visit to Gordy’s apartment. They found it spotless thanks to Zola. A framed picture of Brenda, that Gordy had been hiding in a drawer, was displayed in the bedroom.

A week before classes were scheduled to begin Zola, Mark and Todd went to visit her parents in the detention center. Mark read from a magazine how much it cost to run a detention center and how those centers operated on a quota system. Zola added that the conditions in the centers were deplorable. Some detainees were...