Mona

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My life was pretty routine till Dad lost his job and had to take a lower paying one forcing us to move to a poorer neighborhood just as I entered junior high.

The school was a little scary, and depressing. I was used to a pretty brick school with lawns and landscaping. This school looked like a big grey factory with bars on the windows surrounded by an asphalt parking lot. Rather than our tennis courts there were just pipes coming out of the asphalt with raggedy basketball hoops and even the football field was just dirt. Most of the boys and girls dressed as punk rockers with the girls wearing cut off T-shirts and short shorts or micro skirts to bare their stomachs below their navels and show their legs almost to their crotches. I was used to a dress code and was totally out of place in my white blouse and skirt to my knees. They were also rowdy running down the halls and yelling obscenities to each other. I was embarrassed to see girls being kissed and fondled in the halls. The girls didn't seem to mind when the boys lifted their skirts to squeeze butt cheeks when they were hugged and kissed. I was shy and did not know what to do when a boy said, "Hey. You must be a new girl." and casually patted my butt then said, "Nice ass!" except to blush and whimper.

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