The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Epilogue

Author's Note: This a creative piece about what I think would happen if Rowdy came to Reardan in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.  This piece is from Rowdy's prospective.

Standing there, thinking. Twenty feet from the door of Reardan. Should I go, should I go home? If Arnold can do it so can I. Okay I can do this. No turning back now. No one has said anything thing yet. Then a teacher walks up to me.

"Welcome to Reardan," he says. "Here let me show you to your locker."

I follow him, but that is when I notice everyone around me is looking at me. Whispering and snickering. How could they possibly know….oh…the basketball game. Great, I already know how great my day is going to be.

Later I got surrounded by a bunch of guys. They were calling me names pushing me around. I was getting mad, real mad. I went on a rampage. I went crazy on all of them. It was like a hurricane of fists, but the weirdest thing was they just walked away. Oh well I have to go see Junior any ways.     

"Hey!" I say walking up to Junior.

"Hi, how's your first day going?" asked Junior.

"I don't know, it was weird. I punched someone and they just walked away." I say.

"Yeah, that happened to me too" says Junior, "But anyways are you going to join the basketball team?"

"Yeah," I say

"Well then I will see you at the game tonight," says junior.

I am all ready for the basketball game. Walking with Junior I feel great. Until I take a step into the gym. Everyone is dead silent. Just staring at me. Obviously the recognize me. I caused there only loss of the season. But this is ridiculous, because then they start booing. This isn't going to be fun.

The game started but the coach won't put me in because when he tries the crowd boos crazily until I am out. This is stupid! I want to just punch them in the face! I storm out of the school and all I am thinking is that I am done with the school. I am going back to the rez.

I think this would happen because Rowdy gets mad very quick and settles everything with violence. Really in the book I don't think Rowdy would have ever gone Reardan.