Destiny

It was a sunny spring day as the bus turned the corner.  It was a yellow school bus filled with young children jumping up and down in their seats.  It was an average day in an average school year.  Nothing about it stood out.  Let’s take a closer look.The boy sitting in the front of the bus holding tightly to his lunch box is named William.  His clothes are tattered and his jeans have patches.  The lunch box is empty, but no one around him knows that.  His is quiet and withdrawn.  He doesn’t play with the other children.  He is much too thin.  He will grow up to be a successful businessman, and buy his mother a house.  His children will not have to live like he has. The girls sitting across the aisle from William are Suzette and Lisa.  They like to sit in the front so they can rush off the bus when they get to school.  Suzette is known as the school gossip.  If something is going on, she already knows about it.  She will grow up to be an advice columnist for a local newspaper.  Lisa’s path is a little bit different.   She will succumb to the allure of drugs and get pregnant at an early age.  After the birth of  her child, she will change her life.  She will never go to college or see herself as a success.  But she will bring up a confident young daughter.Behind the two girls are Terence and his best friend (who he currently is wrestling to the ground) Paul....
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