Crisis:

Let's throw a house party and reck this shit!

*Patricia goes through all the photos in the home pointing out that her father and an older woman was in every photo.

*in a fit of rage, Patricia trashes the living room, breaking a mirror that occupied a space above the fireplace.

*looking into the shards of glass, she notices that she isn't herself but the girl that she has been bullying in school, Jonavia.

*she decides to throw a house party, inviting all the cool kids from school including her 2 friends.

*at the party she learns that her own friends never really liked her.

 

Struggle:

*the police are called.

*Patricia gets pinned to a wall, the police officers elbow digging into the back of her neck.

*Patricia notices that the darker skinned students are being arrested while the lighter skinned students are being let go.

*she is taken to the station and held there until the older lady from Jonavia's family photos comes to her rescue.

*once the two of them are back at the house, Patricia gives the woman a hard time.

*once the woman goes to bed, Patricia runs away, wandering around and taking in the sights of the neighborhood.

*An officer patrolling the area stops next to Patricia. The officer comes out of the cruiser, his pistol pointed at her.

*she's brought back to the station where the woman comes for her once again

*the woman scolds Patricia with tears in her eyes

 

Epiphony:

*Patricia sits in the kitchen waiting for a pot off coffee to finish brewing, her mind wandering off

*she realizes that, for many years, she had been pushing away the only person that had truly been there for her.

*Patricia writes a list of things that she remembered Jonavia was into and puts together an apology project.