After school, DeMarcos and Biscuit got into a fight. Teachers were dragging them apart as I stepped onto the school bus to go home. Bernice talked about it and talked about it until she noticed that I wasn't responding.

"You really don't care about those two?" she asked.

"I got Tupac" was my response, and I was sticking to it. It was good that he was only ten or eleven years old right now. It meant that it would be years before he would become famous. Bernice changed ...