The dark-skinned girl shrugs her shoulders.<strong>"Mostly because I'm poor, well come for a poor family. I got here under scholarship. I don't have much of anything, no fancy clothes, no spending accounts. So..."</strong><br/><br/>She purses her dark lips for a moment, eyes cast skywards.<strong>"One of the worst incidents is a group of girls dangled a couple of hundred dollars in front of me and told me they'd give it to me if I danced around like a monkey. That is where that comes from."</strong><br/><br/>She was temped to turn her own head and face Mary, but right now, she could not and chose instead to continue looking towards the ceiling, or down towards her outstretched legs.