Hi I'm Jermy pharma. I live in the suburbs of New jersey with my ma , pa , big sister , aunt ,and uncle Nyame. We aren't very rich but we are not suffering. I don't hate my family but i don't love them either I draw the fine line between love and hate . There is a lot of ups and downs in my life like the time when I was drowning at the town pool and my sister wouldn't even help me, but there were also some good times I've had like when my mom and dad bought me a small 8x8 poster of Obrafour.

It was probably the smallest present ever but to me it had the most meaning . Moms always trying to get me stuff I like but she never does. Because whenever she buys anything its always wrong. Like , look I love my mom and all but if she gives me a frickin plaid sweater vest for my 10th birthday I'm probably going to rage. Grounded for eight days for that one. But it's fine cause I don't really have any friends ever since people found

I started liking Obrafour's music. Only one other person in the town doesn't completely hate me and that's my only friend ,Leo. He isn't all like me though he still dislikes Obrafour but he is the only person who I know still likes a person even if they do something different. You're probably pretty confused on why I like this Obrafour guy. Well it started when I was seven. I was rushed into the Emergency room because I almost drowned in the town pool (because of someone). After a few days I was okay , but I wasn't able to go to school cause that would be too big of a risk. So as I was just sitting in my bed so bored I found a radio I turned it on and boom Kwame Nkrumah was playing. instantly I fell in love with the song because of its good linguistics and nice meanings. But just one minute in the doctors burst in my room and turned off the radio they said "you listen to song you live on street . You want music, listen to Black Ladysmith Mambazo." Then my mom came in and slapped the lights out of me.

So that's how I went from being liked to down in the dumps. Everyone in the entire town hated Obrafour, and that's when I came to realize I didn't fit in!

Tonight during dinner pa was talking about his job and aunt was talking about her cardio class. I was starting to gaze off, and then I just lost control. For a second I thought the boredom killed me, but I just fell asleep. When everyone was done looking at me they started talking again. I had nothing to do so I just sat there. Then as free flowing as it came, I started to hum, it was Obrafours new song. That's when my sister rudely screamed at me and said " you call that music wow your so dumb, listen to Hello my Baby by Black Ladysmith Mambazo". As I was about to defend myself the room went silent. My dad turned his head and told me to go to my room. My dad is usually a really happy guy but his tone was cold, as if he was afraid . When I got to my room I slammed the door closed behind me and opened

the window for air. As I was about to jump on my bed and bawl my eyes out, I heard a familiar sound. It was Obrafour's Kwame Nkrumah! I perked my head up and looked out the window and squinted hard to see in the dark. I soon came to the realization that it was a girl . I was frozen, I couldn't believe anyone else in the town liked Obrafour. For a second I thought she was forced to do it as a dare, but when I looked closer I saw she was calmly skipping down the alley. I wasn't going to pass up a chance like this so I quickly devised a plan to get to her. I tied up my bed sheets, curtains, and towels together to make a rope what I climbed down to get to the street. I made my way up the street and carefully went up to her. On the way I was thinking about all the things I could say. My head was spinning after all this time I never knew anyone who liked Obrafour and now someone just came skipping down an alley. As I came to her, I said " Hi my name is Jeremy Pharma", and then she said here name was Kumi.

We started talking about Obrafour and how much we both like his music. I thought it was really cool how I finally had someone I could talk to and express myself to. I asked her why I've never seen her before and she said it was because she just moved in from North Carolina. This was really cool to Jeremy because he used to live in North Carolina too. They talked about North Carolina and what they would do there. Then Kumi said how she didn't fit in because she liked Obrafour music and everyone liked Black LadySmith Mambazo, the all male chorus band. At this moment I felt so connected to her I felt like we had been living the same life. We talked for a few minutes that felt like hours, not the bad kind, but the heavenly kind where you just don't want to leave forever and ever. It is now that I realize that I had been missing something my whole life. I never knew what it was but now I do, it was someone like Kumi.