Part 4, p. 69 - 87 Summary

Will describes how Tabby taunts him by dropping his favorite jelly beans into the garbage.

One winter day as dry snow is starting to fall, Will goes up to his favorite place in his family's house - the dormer attic, where he keeps his telescope and likes to go to think and hide. This, he comments in narration, is where his family keeps all the forthcoming Christmas presents and the so-called "wedding presents," an important piece of family history. While he's wondering why his out-of-control sister hasn't ever opened the wedding presents, Will looks out the window and sees her playing in the snow. He also notices, through his telescope, that the Brimley clock has started to lose time, and the neighbor with the crush on Tabby, Korbet Finn, is sneaking up on her. Suddenly crying, painfully aware that...