Chapter 8: August Summary

September 7th

Jazmin begins the new school year wearing last year's clothes, praying that no one notices. She resents girls like Chavonne Honeywood who has the latest styles and gets all the cute boys. When she had been in Alexander's Department Store recently to buy tights, she had made the mistake of walking over to the teen's fashion department. It was as though someone else had taken over her body. She had tried a red dress on that fit perfectly. While in the dressing room, she had turned away from the security cameras, folded up the dress and stuck it in her purse. Goodness didn't return to her but fear did. She imagined herself in prison and put the dress back. Chavonne irritates Jazmin but she knows that she's smarter than Chavonne. She doesn't want to trade places with Chavonne&mdash...