Houston, Junior Year (p.186) Summary

Steve stops going to class and attentively avoids Dub. He meets her by accident only one time, and as she begins to stammer, he simply walks away from her. An older co-worker at the theater begins to supply Steve with marijuana and he starts using drugs consistently. Within a few weeks he is caught smoking marijuana at work and loses his job. His grades immediately suffer and he completes the academic year with poor grades and a failed credit in English.

Houston, Junior Year (p.186) Analysis

Steve's descent into drug-use and depression and his adoption of a dropout mentality is again briefly recounted, though the start of the novel presented this aspect of Steve's life in greater detail. The failing grade in English, ironically, is the very thing that will eventually cause Steve to reevaluate his life...