listen to me carefully , prent , because im only going to say this once : im going to meet calvin , and im going to dance with him and im going to kiss him at midnight , and if you try to stop me i will hurt you , and then i will tell all the girls back at the shelter how small your he flings sand at me , but i already knew he would , so i raise my arm and close my eyes and jam my sneaker down where i think his knee should be .