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The
next
day
in
the
cafeteria
,
Beth
felt
wretched
from
not
sleeping
.
“
You
are
the
ugliest
white
girl
ever
,
”
Jolene
said
,
in
a
stage
whisper
.
She
had
come
up
to
Beth
in
the
line
for
the
little
boxes
of
cereal
.
“
Your
nose
is
ugly
and
your
face
is
ugly
and
your
skin
is
like
sandpaper
.
You
white
trash
cracker
bitch
.
”
Jolene
went
on
,
head
high
,
to
the
scrambled
eggs
.
Beth
said
nothing
,
knowing
that
it
was
true
.
*
*
*
King
,
knight
,
pawn
.
The
tensions
on
the
board
were
enough
to
warp
it
.
Then
whack
!
Down
came
the
queen
.
Rooks
at
the
bottom
of
the
board
,
hemmed
in
at
first
,
but
ready
,
building
pressure
and
then
removing
the
pressure
in
a
single
move
.
In
General
Science
,
Miss
Hadley
had
spoken
of
magnets
,
of
“
lines
of
force
.
”
Beth
,
nearly
asleep
with
boredom
,
had
waked
up
suddenly
.
Lines
of
force
:
bishops
on
diagonals
;
rooks
on
files
.
The
seats
in
a
classroom
could
be
like
the
squares
.
If
the
redhaired
boy
named
Ralph
were
a
knight
,
she
could
pick
him
up
and
move
him
two
seats
up
and
one
over
,
setting
him
on
the
empty
seat
next
to
Denise
.
This
would
check
Bertrand
,
who
sat
in
the
front
row
and
was
,
she
decided
,
the
king
.
She
smiled
,
thinking
of
it
.
Jolene
and
she
had
not
spoken
for
over
a
week
,
and
Beth
had
not
let
herself
cry
.
She
was
almost
nine
years
old
,
and
she
didn
’
t
need
Jolene
.
It
didn
’
t
matter
how
she
felt
about
it
.
She
didn
’
t
need
Jolene
.
*
*
*
“
Here
,
”
Mr
.
Shaibel
said
.
He
handed
her
something
in
a
brown
paper
bag
.
It
was
noon
on
Sunday
.
She
slipped
the
bag
open
.
In
it
was
a
heavy
paperback
book
—
Modern
Chess
Openings
.
