6
Scotch Tape and Heels
Ridgemont Academy
A privately endowed high school for exceptional students.
Half an hour later, Jay and I were putting the final touches on our awesomest project ever: a cardboard sled shaped from Hari’s TV box. It was huge. We were sure we’d break land speed records racing down grass hills. We might even catch air.
Jay nudged me. “Try look.”
“What the—”
Charlene Suzette Apo tottered across her driveway, wobbling in her mother’s old high heel shoes.
Char Siu was our calabash cousin and Uncle Kahana’s only other Lua student. Like me and Jay, she was headed for ninth grade at Ridgemont Academy in the fall.
Unlike me, Char Siu and Jay got into Ridgemont on early acceptance. For a while it had looked like I’d be walking alone to public school at Lauele High in
