We Are Able

Episode 54

I began to trudge back slowly to the classroom. Bose was still
weeping in shame—the shame that her theft secret had been
leaked to her classmates by Moses. They would soon begin to
call him names such as ‘Bose the Theft Bose!’ or ‘Queen of
Thieves’.

Bose buried her head on her desk and kept on weeping. I rose
from my seat and began to walk to her desk. I put an arm
around her back and tapped her gently with the other. She
raised and face and became shocked at my sight.

“Bose, that is past tense; let’s be friends,” I signed to her and
then stretched my hand before her to hold. I waited to see if
she would take it or reject it.
“Bose, let’s be friends,” I used my hands once more and then
stretched it before her again.