Dear Mrs Hewett,
I have two questions.
At first, why did you write the book?
Second, was you on an High School, like the school in the book?
Thanks for reading this

Letter

Dear Anthony,
it´s very nice here in Florida.The weather and the guys are very great. I have hard workouts, but I enjoy it. I hope you enjoy staying at the Bates family and that you work as hard as you can for your school. I´m proud that you are so brave, I will visite you as soon as possible. I miss you very hard, I hope you me too. Please say Ruthie that I love and miss her a lot.
A big hug at you all.
With love AJ

Part 5


The pupils have their graduation. Ruthie and AJ are proud and happy to go to collegue, but they are also sad because they can´t see anymore.
Erika don´t know what to do after her graduation and one of her friends is pregnant and so this girl has something to do.
Everybody is sad about the end of High School but happy about the beginning of something new.
Erika has ended with AJ and lives her life.
A short time befor Ruthie goes to Stanford she meets Erika and they talk. Ruthie sees that they have much in common. Ruthie says that she is sorry and in the end they are all more grown up as in the beginning.

Part 4


Erika is really angry. At first she intimidates Andrea and after this she hits Ruthie, but AJ helps Ruthie. Then AJ tells Erika that they break off and Erika looses her control and yells that she will kill Ruthie. She is very depressed, but to her suprise her mum trys to help her. At last she decides to go to her dad in Phoenix, to forget all this shit.
At home AJ´s friends look out for Ruthie besides AJ and hold to them, what the friends of Erika can´t understand.
While this, Erika is in Phoenix and is walking through the city, but all what´s happening doesn´t make her feeling better. When Erika is back she wants getting AJ back. But when she goes to Ruthie to hit her, they are fighting with words and Ruthie knocks Erika down. Erika´s image is destroyed for ever and her friends are very disappointed. Some of them understand that they have to let Ruthie allone.
Erika doesn´t want to see anybody, but when she is going to be weird because of lonlyness, she goes to Franco and is hanging off with him. She also has sex with him, but she isn´t feeling better after this.

Part 3


Ruthie is searching for AJ and finds him at the grave of his mother, where he was the whole week and thought about the time when he is at the collegue and Anthony is alone. He doesn´t know where Anthony could stand while this time, because at his home is the influence to Anthony too bad. Ruthie invites AJ and Anthony for dinner at her home. Anthony likes Ruthie´s brother Derek very much and AJ envys Ruthie for her family. When they go for a walk, AJ tells Ruthie about his thoughts about Anthony.
On the next day at the school AJ meets Erika, who was worring about AJ, but he doesn´t cares.
When AJ and Athony are at Ruthie´s for dinner on another day, they talk for another time about AJ´s thougts about Anthony. Ruthie takes the guess that Athony can live at her home for the one week, when AJ is at Florida. AJ thinks that it´s a good idea and Ruthie asks her parents, who say yes after a short discussion. This ease AJ very much.
Erika sees AJ for another time with Ruthie and she gets more angry, though AJ says that Ruthie is only a friend to him. Erika talks to Ruthie that she has to leave her hands off from AJ, because of what Ruthie tells AJ to hold Erika back of her.
Later Ruthie, Anthony and Andrea, a friend of Ruthie, go to a track meet of AJ. All of them have a lot of fun and ruthie and AJ get closer.
When AJ comes back from Florida he goes straight ahaid to Ruthie´s home for taking Anthony, but Ruthie tells him that it´s better for Anthony if he lives at their home for the time, when AJ is away in Florida. AJ understands, because he knows that the family cares about Anthony very much. So he explains it to Anthony, who understands it too.
When AJ goes at home he explains the situation to his dad too and he is imagening on Erika, who he calls. She is for another time bitching, but he can getting her to be a nice girl to him. While this time, not only Erika is noticing AJ´s changing, but also his friends...
Erika has her scene and she is great. she gets a lot of flowers also of AJ and she is really happy, but when AJ comes behind the stage with Ruthie they quarrell.
Few days later AJ visites Ruthie very late on evening. After long talking, they start kissing and both are very happy. They fall in sleep and AJ leaves at 4 o´clock in the morning. On the next day Ruthie tells Andrea about the happenings, who is very happy about this. When Ruthie sees AJ they are hugging and Ruthie tells AJ that she doesn´t want to be his second girlfriend and he swears to break with Erika.
While this Erika is hearing that Ruthie and AJ are together, because of what she looses the control and swears, that she will kill Ruthie.

Part 2


AJ and Ruthie get closer and he asks wich collegue he has to choose. But she warns him not only to play football and that he has to learn, because of what he gets angry. After this Ruthie tells him, that she teaches his little brother and he gets more angry than before.
AJ chooses Florida State University and enjoys the trouble about his decision and the decision of Wakeen and Doug (his also famous friends). After the trouble the Fellas go to take a beer at AJ´s home and they remember in old stories of their friendship. Few times later Erika visites AJ and they have sex, what makes him feeling very good about the situation.
Ruthie gets closer to her dream of the Stanford University, but when she tells AJ about this she notices that he acts very cold to her. Later she has the first lesson with Anthony and she gets directly a very good idea how to help him with his reading problems.
Erika gets the mainpart in the school play and she is very proud, but she has to share the role with a black girl who she hates.
One day, when AJ comes home is Anthony reading with Ruthie and AJ gets angry, but Ruthie manages to calm him down and tells him that she only wants to help Anthony. When Franco arrives, wants AJ directly that Anthony goes to take an ice with Ruthie and they go. Franco thinks that Ruthie is the new girlfriend of AJ, but he says no and goes.
One day Anthony asks Ruthie why AJ doesn´t like her but she changes the subject. But Anthony asks she another question `how her mum is like?` and tells her that his mum killed herself.
When AJ criticizes Ruthie another time she says it without meaning and AJ leaves the classroom. Ruthie runs after him and trys to calm him down. After they have shout at each other in the middle of the school, they go out of school to drink a coke. AJ tells Ruthie everything about his mother what makes him feeling very good. While this conversation, they are getting closer for a nother time and AJ is weird about his feelings.
When AJ is coming home Anthony plays with his friends drug messenger! Anthony tells AJ, that he brought something to a house for Franco and AJ realises how bad and much the influence of Franco really is. He wants to kill him and they fight, but when Franco is going to kill AJ, AJ manages to run away and goes to the grave of his mother.

Part 1

In part 1 are the 3 main characters AJ, a black, very successful football player, Erika , a light skinned aggressive girl, who is together with AJ and at least Ruthie , a black, very intelligent girl, presented. Part 1 shows the relationship between the 3 characters and their social standing.
AJ lives in poor conditions: his mum is dead and he lives with his dad, his little brother Anthony and his older, drug dependent brother Franco. AJ loves his little brother pretty much and tries to keep him away from Franco. Besides his family AJ spends time with his friends, they all play football with him, who are with AJ the gang "The Fellas". He is together with Erika, but she often gets on his nerves.
Erika lives alone with her mum, who is ashamed because her daughter is light skinned. Erika spends her time only with light skinned girls and think that all other coloured girls are dirt. She loves AJ pretty much and she is very jealous every time AJ spends attention to other girls. She isn´t scared in confrontations with other girls, on the contrary she is often fighting and is very aggressiv.
Ruthie lives in a well situated, black family and is pretty good in school. She has mostly white friends and the whole school thinks, that she is a wannabe, because she doesn´t look and speak like a black girl. She for herself has really a problem with her identity, because she doesn´t feel like a real black girl, and she doesn´t know what it means to be a real black person.

AJ and Erika are the coolest pair in the whole school and Erika is really jealous when she hears that AJ drove away from school with a girl named Ruthie. She wants to give that Ruthie girl a lesson, because AJ is her boyfriend. In reality AJ hasn´t flirted with Ruthie, but Ruthie has an accident because of AJ and he had to drive her home. Erika is angry with AJ and so she wants to get him jealous on her and flirts with an other boy on a party and AJ does the same. Ruthie isn´t interested in these things and doesn´t see a point to talk too much with AJ. But when Erika says to AJ that she is in love with him, he can´t say the same thing. Because of something he asks Ruthie ´when you know that you are in love with somebody´. So they talk and she offers to him that she can teach him in some chemestry things. But when she went to AJ´s home, he has forgot his books in school and has friends at home. She meets his brother Anthony and thinks that he is a great boy, but AJ and she can´t learn so she went home. She is happy to get home, because she is very shocked about the neighbourhood of AJ´s home.