Chapter 14. Summary

Ray is relieved as he leaves the hospital. He fully believes Barry's story that the phone call was merely a robbery. As he is leaving he is stopped by Bud, Julie's boyfriend who asks why Ray is at the hospital and how Barry is doing. Bud asks more questions and he admits that he doesn't much like hospitals. Then he invites Ray to go to the drugstore to get something to eat with him. Ray agrees more out of curiosity about Julie's boyfriend than out of hunger.

Their conversation revolves around Julie. Bud thinks because Julie sent Barry a plant that she is dating him, but Ray assures him that she is not. He explains that they all used to "go around" together but that after last summer they don't anymore.

When Ray admits that he came back to try and make things...