They stayed in touch, but before either realized it, it had been nearly 2 years since they'd seen each other. When the girls entered High School, they drifted apart a bit, Tiffany became a cheerleader and did a lot of other activities, Onyx took a part-time job so that she could afford to go to University. They still helped each other with homework and talked about their lives and maintained a friendship they swore would never end. Within a month of Onyx's move, she and Tiffany were talking on-line at least 2 hours every day and meeting at the Public Library or for coffee at least twice a week. What neither family counted on was the fact that this was now the computer age, the days of E-Mail, Facebook, Twitter and the like. Tiffany was almost livid with rage at her mother's bigotry. Kathleen Taylor encouraged her daughter to make new friends in a "higher social circle". His wife Bianca had about the same feelings on the matter.
Jeb Douglas was thrilled because now his daughter wouldn't be hanging around with the uppity white girl. As far as her family was concerned, why did she need to know these things if she was going to marry some rich man and raise his children?Īround the time the girls were 12 years old Onyx's family came into a bit more money and moved to a nicer neighborhood in another school district. her family had accountants and staff to do a lot of the piddly stuff and they saw no reason she needed to know any of this. Tiffany didn't particularly do well with math or science. For example, as Onyx's family tended to be lazy and use far too much slang at home for her teacher's, Tiffany tutored her until Ebonics were a thing of the past. If one girl excelled in a subject the order was doing poorly in, they helped each other until they were at par. They played together every day, did their homework together and helped each other out whenever necessary.
The Taylor family thought that Onyx's parents were low-class black trash and they were equally correct in their assessment.
Onyx's parents, the Douglas', thought that Tiffany's parents were snobs of the highest order. Their parents weren't happy about the situation, not in the least. Their teachers rarely saw them apart and they worked and played together. Their friends thought it was cute and had nicknamed them "Ebony and Ivory" after the then-popular song, Onyx being dark as the stone for which she was named and Tiffany being about as blonde as any girl could get. Onyx and Tiffany had been friends since Kindergarten, the kind of friends that always seemed to be joined at the hip.
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