Summary

Ajay comes home from his first day of 7th grade and talks for a long while to Birju. He teases Birju about lying in bed all day, then admits some of the things that happened at school, such as getting made fun of for taking a lunch box. Ajay is worked up and upset about his day, as evidenced in his quick speech, but telling Birju about his day helps calm him down. While talking to Birju, Ajay recalls talking to God while he and his family were living in Arlington. He recognizes that nothing has changed, and therefore Ajay feels like he's being crushed day in and day out.

On Ajay's second day of 7th grade, he continues to think about his brother's state and how different life is than what they thought it would be. Ajay recognizes that he's so much luckier...