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a window shot out, and the other a tire popped.

People at the police department are looking into various things such as why there were four police
officers roaming the same area. I realize that this is what the people on the radio station were
talking about.

Tao starts to go into his racist mood, talking about how all the blacks are ruining the communities
they reside in, but before he can begin to preach we both hear yelling just outside my door. I look
through my peephole but I can't see far enough to the right to see what's going on, so I open my
door and I see a woman standing behind a man who is trying to break down the door to Lynne's
apartment. It's Claire and Silvio.

Claire turns around and for no logical reason starts to yell at me, and when Silvio realizes this, he
too starts to yell at me, again for no logical reason that I can find. Claire starts to insult both her
sister and her mother, and I can't help but remember the Claire that was so sweet and soft-spoken.
What did Silvio do to turn her against her family? Is Claire some kind of crazy person who has
crazy mood-swings? That whole damn family seems crazy.

Now Silvio is in my face telling me to stay away from his kids, and when I just stand there and
don't react to him, he pushes me. After I laugh and tell him that he should just go home, he knocks
me down and starts hitting me. I block all of his punches, but before I know it I see Tao standing
there threatening to hit him with my metal baseball bat. I forgot I even still had that.

The threat might seem real if Tao didn't look so afraid. Claire and Silvio laugh at him, and the
distraction allows me to trip Silvio and put him in a headlock. I always assumed a headlock was
suppose to be more painful to the person in the headlock, but this particular one is causing me more
pain because I have Claire hitting me in the back of the head with her damn purse.

After about six seconds, I can hear Lynne screaming, and her scream makes me realize what we
are all doing. How we are all acting like animals. After Lynne's scream, Claire stops hitting me and
I let go of Silvio, and surprisingly he doesn't retaliate. We are all just awkwardly calm, but waiting
for any move another person might make. In my head, I laugh at Tao.

Right after, the police have arrived unusually quickly thanks to Emily, and they sort every thing
out. Imagine if the response time was this quick in the city.

After I close my door, I look at Tao and I start laughing. All he can really do is shake his head, he
is probably still wondering what just happened and what I had gotten myself into with these
people. In the back of his mind I know he wants to ask me what all those composition notebooks
are about. He had to have seen them because that metal bat was in the same room. After I stop
laughing, I say "welcome back."

Chapter 35:
SOCIALIZATION

Tao apologizes to Kathleen as if it were his fault that Joe was in a coma, and then he says that it's
unfortunate that he has to meet her under these circumstances. As arrogant as Tao may seem