"Amerian History" Newspaper

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Elena. A girl. Ninth grade. Dallas, Texas. In 1963. These words so plain and so dull, opposed to her struggling life. Elena went to a school named Public School 13. Which seems very boring itself due to its simple name. Elena got picked on and teased a lot at her school because of how slow her body was maturing. Most of the students there were mean and rude, and Elena didn't care much for them. All except for one boy named Eugene. Eugene was Elena's "only source of beauty and light for her that school year." Eugene was also young, and he lived next door to Elena. Elena could see in their kitchen because her fire place was literally suspended over their backyard. Elena lives in the building named El Building. It was a complex for low income families. On the other hand Eugene’s house (neighbor to Elena) was two stories and it was the only house on the block that had a yard and trees. Elena tried hard to talk to him and they finally did on the walk back to their houses. Then after a while they started walking home every day together. Elena was getting tired of just staring into his house and she started being curious about it. She’s curious about what the other rooms looked like, or what it felt like to sit at his dinner table. So one day Eugene asked on the 22nd of November if she can go over. That day at school and she was at P.E. the teacher told them all to line up. The P.E. teacher was crying and he told his students that the president was dead. The kids didn’t take it seriously so he practically cussed them out and sent them home. Elena didn’t know how to feel about the president because she had her own worries. The same day the president died was the same day Elena was supposed to go over to Eugene’s house. To Americans this day was important because one of their favorite presidents was assassinated. The whole city was silent and shocked. Elena decided to still go over to study and his mom answered the door. She told Elena that Eugene didn’t want to study with her so she should just go home. Elena stood there for a little then went back to her apartment to find her mom gone. She went to sleep that night crying but not for the president, but for Eugene. On this day of history, November 22nd 1963, Elena got rejected by Eugene’s mom and the President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.