The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said.

第二天早上，我就把我爸爸的话告诉了我最好的朋友迈克。

As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school.

可以说迈克和我是学校里仅有的两个穷孩子。

Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate.

迈克来到这个学校的际遇和我一样也是因为命运的安排。

Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids.

仿佛有人在画一条直线时不小心画歪了一处，而我和mike的家就是学校这条直线歪的那一处，最后我们就和这些富有人家的孩子一起上学了。