Summary

In October, Jason went home every day to an empty house. He couldn’t believe how much he missed Julia. Before she’d left for college, she had given him her "Abbey Road" L.P. for safekeeping. He also found that his father had bought him a television as a surprise and put it in his room. He wondered why his dad had bought the television. He didn’t do things like that for no reason. On the bus Ross Wilcox sat next to Jason asking him to get out his pencil case. Jason refused. Ross Wilcox stammered and stuttered when he talked to Jason, making fun of him. The only thing that interrupted Ross Wilcox’s torture was when Squelch threw up.

The door bell rang. A man was there who wanted to sharpen their knives. He said he’d sharpened them...