《Gloryland》Memory 23
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>Be Evan.
>Be at middle school dance in 8th grade.
>Cafeteria is packed with kids on Saturday night.
>Tables with snacks and punches line the cafeteria walls, parent chaperones stand around looking like they want to go home already.
>Evan stands alone, bouncing between groups of casual acquaintances. He's not sure why he's even here, other than a vague desire to become more social.
>There's karaoke onstage.
>A group of 7th graders gets up and starts doing The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)."
>Evan recognizes Lily Trent in the gaggle of girls gathered around 7th grade stud Danny Ratliffe, who's singing lead.
>Danny rides Brian Dinkins' bus.
>Danny's a skater- type, quick of the tongue and narrow of the shoulder. He has an earring and a buzz cut and he wears his Tony Hawk baseball cap backwards.
>All the ladies dig him, and there's a rumor he's already gotten more ass at the age of twelve than a lot of the male teachers have gotten in their entire pathetic lifetimes.
>Now he's up on stage doing karaoke with his harem of admirers, Lily included.
>Lily is enthusiastically singing the 'Give it to me, baby' part.
>Brian Dinkins comes over to Evan.
>There's Danny, he says, pointing and gesticulating wildly with both hands. Danny and his hoes!
>Evan watches Lily dance and chant. She's dancing very provocatively for an 11-year-old.
>Give it to me, baby. Uh-huh! Uh-huh!
>Danny notices Lily's enthusiasm and begins sharing the mic with her and her alone.
>She dances up on him.
>The other girls look like they want to kill her. Some try to dance more noticeably, more like Lily, but Danny's attention has been captured.
>A good portion of the attending populace is now watching the stage, including some of the chaperones, a couple of whom are starting forward to put a stop to the not-quite-so-family-friendly display.
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>That bitch has some moves, son, Brian comments.
>That's Lily Trent, Evan says. She lives down the street from me.
>That's Marty Trent's sister?
>Yeah.
>Day-um.
>A female chaperone that Evan realizes is Ms. Grover, the school's strict librarian, walks up to the stage and grabs Lily's ankle.
>Evan can see her mouth moving.
>Lily looks down at Ms. Grover and turns to Danny, who holds the mic out to her.
>She grabs Danny's face with both hands and smooches him.
>The kids all cheer, thrilled at the blatant lack of respect for authority, the sheer insubordination, the defiance.
>A few chaperones smirk. Kids these days.
>Danny is flabbergasted, forgets to sing, the karaoke music blasts on.
>His female entourage is now angrily prodding Lily and bidding her to obey Ms. Grover.
>Ms Grover yanks Lily's ankle and she nearly goes tumbling to the stage floor.
>Ms Grover takes Lily out of the cafeteria, admonishing her all the way, and she is not seen again for the remainder of the evening.
>Naughty naughty, Brian says.
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