In 2013, something terrible happened on the 57 bus in Oakland, California ... a cigarette lighter to set their white gauzy skirt on fire. Sasha's legs were burned from thigh to calf.

Dashka Slater's nonfiction book "The 57 Bus" was among them ... was riding a bus back from high school when their skirt was set on fire by another teen, who was arrested and tried as an adult.