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Eddie is a student at Bright Horizons Alternative School. He meets one of his old teachers, Mrs. Beecher at the library. He believes she lost her job by being a "liberal intellectual. He also explains how easy it is for teachers to fire students.

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Eddie disagrees with Just say No. A kid named Bobby gets killed for saying no to a drug dealer. People portray Bobby as a drug dealer himself, but that isn't true. The same drug dealer is after Eddie, so he and his cousins form a gang.

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Eddie signs up for ball room dancing to get fine art credits, when he see's a girl named Lupe. He immediately falls in love. She explains that she transfered to his school because of repeated attacks at her other school.

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Another boy writes a poem to impress Lupe, so Eddie decides to also start writing poems. She hits him on the head and called him a pachucho.