24
Bus Stop
Ho‘ohae
To provoke; exasperate; to stir up wrath.
At the bus stop a gaggle of girls huddled around Lisa Ling who stood looking stoic and brave, eyeliner just a tad smeared from the tissues she clutched in her hand. For once even the boys were quiet, just scuffing their shoes in the dirt, hands in their pockets, waiting for the bus to take them to school.
Raydeen, a senior, put her arm around Lisa.
“What did the doctors say?” she asked.
Lisa sniffed. “They said Jay will be okay.”
Char Siu bit her lip.
And who called you, she thought. You got a personal hotline to the hospital, Lisa?
Heidi, one of Lili’s friends, patted Lisa’s arm. “That’s good, right?”
“He’ll be back to school?” Mele asked.
Lisa nodded.
“I heard maybe a month,” Gracie said.
“Wow. That long? That’s
