"Drive By" - a Short Story

Drive By
John was an outsider at his new highschool, his family having moved from an urban setting to the rural town of Menifee. He was a junior in highschool, a loner who had a hard time making friends. He was intelligent, quiet and extremely shy. His new school was constituted of mainly Hispanic students who made up half of the student body. The rest of the students were Black and White with roughly the same amount of each. John was Hispanic, his father was dark skinned Mexican, his mother was light-skinned; she was half French and half Mexican. …