I was a little surprised to see he was in my grade. It was the middle of the school year and Austin had mentioned that his cousin was one of the two students on the class roster that never showed up. Austin showed his dislike of this cousin by dismissing him as “too poor to come to our schoolâ€? during Spanish class on the first day of school. The entire class laughed; I don’t know why but when Austin said something, you were required to laugh.

So this was him; the guy that was too poor to afford this school and therefore would never come. Austin was sure wrong about one thing.