Chapter 11

The book I read to Finny in Latin.

On my way back, I only wanted to see Phineas. The only problems with him, were between sports. When I got back, he was in the middle of a snowball fight. He told me to come join. Even if you do have a lousy aim" (145), he said. I joined Finny's team, but he switched to the enemies side, and mixed up the teams so badly, that we all just decided to go against Finny. It was so much fun. Later that night, Brinker came in to my room. He and Finny asked about Leper. I told them that he had gone crazy and that he cries a lot. Later Brinker pulled me aside and wanted tot tell Finny that he was different then us. I thought it was a horribel idea and stormedo ut of the room. After chapel, Finny told me he had seen Leper hding in the bushes, as I read Julias Caesar to him in Latin. Later that night, Brinker and some other people showed up in our room and brought us to the assembly room. They started to investigate the day that Finny fell out of the tree. I didn't want Finny to know that I had moved the branch, so I denied having been up in the tree. Brinker started to say that it was a shame that Leper wasn't there, because he would remember everything. I was shocked when Finny told everyone that Leper was at the school. When he came back with Leper, I started to get nervous. He explained the story with a bunch of nonsense in between. "The one holding on to the trunk sank for a second, up and down like a piston, and then the other one sank and fell" (168). This was the worst piece of information, because it was true and Finny now knew. Before I knew it, Finny was out of his chair and saying he didn't care about this anymore. He was crying and this surprised me because I had never seen him ever cry. I felt horrible and called after him. All of a sudden, we heard Finny falling down the marble staircase.