Chapter 14“Gomen. I take it back.” She said it immediately. “Of course I don’t believe that. I don’t.” Her apology sounded sincere. “But I want you to come home. Onegai.”
Nothing he’d said the night before, or in the last five minutes, had gotten through. “If I did it for you,” he said, “what about me?”
Nothing.
“You do for you and I do for me, how about that?” Tom Alan asked.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“We’ve been sheltered, Kiki. I’m not complaining, but the sport, your chichi’s rules…”
“He’s ‘my’ chichi now?”
“Ours. Papa. You go to the practice rink, Kiki, segregated schools, then home—a home that’s even segregated. That’s all you know.”
“And you know more, and that’s why you’re different.”
“When you know more, you’ll be different, too.”
“Then you’re admitting you’re diff
