Chapters 19-21 Summary

Chapter 19, "The Candy in His Hand," begins with Zinkoff announcing casually but proudly to his family that he has a best friend who loves black licorice and is making a candle out of his earwax. A few days later, he visits Binns at home, meets Nobody the lizard, and is shown a secret stash of earwax in a pill bottle. Determined to be an excellent best friend, Zinkoff spends a lot of time with Binns, begins eating black licorice, and decides Binns is the most interesting person he knows, alongside the Waiting Man. To be more interesting himself, Zinkoff decides to always carry a clump of petrified bubblegum that little Claudia picked out of the gutter and gave him as a present, which will be Zinkoff's lucky piece. Binns comes for a sleepover that does not work well, because Binns kicks...