Dear Journal #4

That night we went to the beach we ended up sleeping there and when i woke up Finny was still sleeping and i tried to go back to sleep but couldn't. We didn't have a watch at that time, so I looked at the sky and I knew it was about six thirty. The ride back to Devon would take three hours and I had to be back in time for my trigonometry test that was at ten. We couldn't eat breakfast that morning because Finny lost our money we had. We got to Devon just in time for my test that I flunked. Later on me and Finny were talking and he was asking me "What good will Trigonometry do you" and I said "I'll have to pass it to graduate, for one thing". Then Finny started saying all these things about how I just want to be head of the class, valedictorian, so i can make a speech on Graduation day. I asked Finny if he would mine if I did become valedictorian and he said i would kill myself out of jealous envy. Me and Finny were very different because he was very good at sports and not so good at school and me I was very good at school and not so good at sports. A couple of nights later I was studying for a French test and Finny came into the room and told me that Leper wanted to jump from the tree to become part of the society. Finny asked me to go, but I was studying, but I couldn’t picture him jumping so I went anyways. When we got to the tree Finny and I decided to jump together and when we were up there he turned around for a second and lost his balance. He fell through little branches and hit the bank, so after I climbed down the tree and jumped in the river. I was really scared and didn't know what would happen or what to do.