We’re helping students find programs they can afford.”

He glanced at the scholarship forms.

“Do you think filling out paperwork will replace what’s gone?”

“No,” Selena said.

“But I’m not going to do nothing.”

For the first time, Gavin did not have an answer.

PART 4

The phone call I had made during their vacation was to my old friend Nadia Brooks, a school counselor who had once helped me apply for a scholarship of my own.