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Fabiola’s friend, Imani, receives a low grade on a paper. Fabiola is concerned and wants to help Imani, just as Imani helped Fabiola when she first arrived in Detroit. Imani shows Fabiola an unwanted gift of flowers and a dress that she has received from Dray. Imani is bothered by Dray’s flirtations, but she doesn’t want Fabiola to tell her cousins about what happened. The girl who has been bullying Fabiola—Tonesha—reappears with her cousin Racquel. Racquel gets into a fight with Fabiola over Kasim. Racquel and Fabiola start punching each other. Tonesha joins in. Fabiola defends herself, continuing to punch Tonesha and Raquel in a rage.
The school principal, Ms. Stanley, suspends Fabiola for three days. Fabiola says she would rather use her school tuition money to help her mother. She thinks of Ezili-Danto. Chantal says that Fabiola is now the “Fourth Bee” of their group. Chantal proposes they go to a party in the white neighborhood of Grosse Pointe Park and sell Matant Jo’s pills to start paying off their debt to Q. Fabiola wishes she had never found out about her cousins’ drug dealing.
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