Chapter 5 Summary

On the way to school, Christopher-John stops and waits for Claude Avery at their usual meeting place. Cassie reminds him that since the trial, TJ's brother hardly ever attends school. She inwardly reflects that when he does attend, he keeps to himself and cries over his lost brother.

Stacey hurries his siblings on to school, and along the way, they carefully listen for the white school bus. If it comes up the road they are on, they will have to jump into the forest to avoid the mud that the bus sprays up. To their surprise, Jeremy Simms catches up to them. They have not seen him since Christmas, His mother took him to Jackson when people started to believe RW and Melvin were involved in the murder.

Jeremy is a little nervous, worrying what the Logan children now think of him, knowing...