Summary

In the next chapter narrated by Steve, Steve considers that the odds of getting bitten by the Inland Taipan, the most poisonous snake in the world, are rare. Steve considers a discussion Ms. Bixby had with the class about the odds of finding one’s soul mate amid more than seven billion people in the world after reading a romantic poem. Steven remembers thinking such a thing impossible, but Topher did not. In the present, Steve considers it impossible that George Nelson is on the same bus as them, but yet George Nelson is. Brand declares that it is fate, and that Nelson has to pay. Steve recalls not liking Brand when they first met because Brand meant change in his friendship with Topher, and it meant that Topher might like Brand over him. Now in the present, Topher tells them they are ninjas...