Chapter 31-32 Summary

Wong and Rolando, two teenagers in Sticky's foster-care center, show Sticky a letter he got from a basketball scout at University of Southern California. As the two boys lose themselves in mindless video games, Sticky goes to take a shower and has an OCD episode, stepping in and out of the roach-infested shower, in and out, in and out. Thinking of the talk he has just had with Dante, he resolves to grow up and stop this behavior, but gives in again to his compulsion. He looks at his face in the mirror while shaving and doesn't recognize himself. Sticky is undergoing a deep soul-searching at this moment, wondering whether his life is at a turning point and how he should behave. He looks in the mirror and wonders if he is looking at a mask. He talks with Julia, one...