deborahscribe
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Greenhaven High School was a school that drew about two-thirds of its students from the inner city, and one third from the suburbs. It was a rather heady mix, and conflicts between kids from the suburbs and the street-toughened inner city kids were a part of school life. So it was only natural that the school administrators tried their best to focus on things that united, rather than divided. Like the school football team.
The Knights, as the team was called, were seldom below the top third of their division, and with good reason. The school faculty and administrators would do anything to make sure the top athletes remained eligible. No rule was above being bent, and no action was considered too base. So when the Moore brothers, two top-notch players, drifted below a C average, the coach turned to the school's cadre of gifted students to find tutors. Given the Moore brother's rep for looking down on brainy types, there were no takers.
In desperation, the school principal sweetened the pot. He let the parents of the gifted children know that he would write a letter of recommendation that would make their child out to be somewhere between Einstein and Jesus Christ, if only they helped tutor these two kids. So Christy, a female senior, got volunteered...much against her better judgment.
The day she had dreaded came. Her mom was at work, and the Moore brothers were due over any minute. She was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with her dishwater-blonde hair flowing down her back. Her skin was lightly freckled. She had wire-rimmed glasses. She heard a car in the driveway, with thumping bass...and knew the twins had arrived.
The Knights, as the team was called, were seldom below the top third of their division, and with good reason. The school faculty and administrators would do anything to make sure the top athletes remained eligible. No rule was above being bent, and no action was considered too base. So when the Moore brothers, two top-notch players, drifted below a C average, the coach turned to the school's cadre of gifted students to find tutors. Given the Moore brother's rep for looking down on brainy types, there were no takers.
In desperation, the school principal sweetened the pot. He let the parents of the gifted children know that he would write a letter of recommendation that would make their child out to be somewhere between Einstein and Jesus Christ, if only they helped tutor these two kids. So Christy, a female senior, got volunteered...much against her better judgment.
The day she had dreaded came. Her mom was at work, and the Moore brothers were due over any minute. She was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with her dishwater-blonde hair flowing down her back. Her skin was lightly freckled. She had wire-rimmed glasses. She heard a car in the driveway, with thumping bass...and knew the twins had arrived.