Summary

Chapter Twenty-Three. Luke no longer goes to the woods by himself. Instead, he goes out a few nights a week to meet the girls with Jason and the others. Luke notices that most of the other boys look frightened each time they step through the door and on one trip he asks Trey if he likes going outside, and Trey says no. He spent 13 years hiding in one room and had never set foot outdoors before coming to Hendricks. He tells Luke that he and most of the other boys in the group have only been at the school since the fall, and that Jason only arrived a few weeks before Luke did. They have only been meeting in the woods since April, which Luke realizes was when the rally took place during which Jen was killed.

When they meet the girls...