Episode 40: Away We Go

PREVIOUSLY: REST OF OUR LIVES

Shinelle learns that she has won a scholarship to NYU. She is hesitant about going... but only knows that if she goes, she is only going to be gone for a few years. And Bobby will still be here to take care of her mother and keep her company.

She gazes out the window, afraid, thinking back at the days when she believed she couldn't leave her dirty little neighbourhood. She barely knows about the world outside that.

But she wants to know it so badly.

She calls her bigger brother, Ricky, and asks him to meet her at the park. They sit on a bench and they talk about each other's lives. Ricky says that Devika's expecting a baby and he's excited. He tells Shinelle that she should go to NYU and that she could come back and make her neighbourhood a better place.

Shinelle says she hopes she can come back and teach everyone new things. Ricky says she is good at that and that she had taught him many things. Shinelle asks, "What I ever teach you so?"

Ricky goes to the chess tables and lays down the pieces. "Guard your Queen well, eh," he says.

THE END