Born a Crime

map out a strategy. I decided I’d be
best friends with Zaheera and stay
friends with her long enough to ask
her to the matric dance, what we
call our senior prom. Mind you, we
were in grade nine at this point. The
matric dance was three years away.
But I decided to play the long game.
I was like, Yep, just gonna take my
time. Because that’s what happens
in the movies, right? I’d seen my
American high school movies. You
hang around long enough as the
friendly good guy and the girl dates
a bunch of handsome jerks, and
then one day she turns around and
goes, “Oh, it’s you. It was always