Sitting down tapping the brown tables and biting my fingernails At Charles Sumner Elementary School. Not fitting in and being the only dark skinned dominican in my class felt like I was underwater with no oxygen tank. I remember when one of my classmates was looking at me and laughing with his friends. It felt like i had butterflies in my stomach, as he keep looking at me i felt the need to look him and say what. A chubby, curly hair mean looking boy with the same age as me, looked at me and then calls me names. He screams across the room saying “ shut up ugly ass black girl. that's why your family doesn't love you, because you got burnt...” Hearing those and seeing how my classmates were all laughing was the worst nightmare a 12 year old
