https://padlet.com/fitzgerald_k/aqahyoas89o8 When given the choice between being right and being kind. Choose kind. en-us 2016-11-30 21:01:10 UTC 2025-12-13 02:59:32 UTC hello@padlet.com fitzgerald_k https://padlet.com/fitzgerald_k/aqahyoas89o8/wish/140969134

Some boys who Jack tries to join at lunch get up to switch tables but get busted and sent back. "Oh great, like that was going to help," Jack says

So Jack gets up and moves before he has to face them again, even though he's not supposed to do that either.

Summer (of course) invites Jack to sit with her and August.

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Jack recalls that he avoided sitting with August at lunch on the first day of school because he just wanted some "normal time to chill with other kids"

He recognizes how brave Summer is to have joined August for lunch that first day.

When Jack finds himself up a creek, Summer and August are there for him, being "totally nice" to him, "as always" 

Jack gives them a carefully edited version of the story he heard from Charlotte, boiling it down to Julian having turned the whole grade against him.

When Jack comments on how weird it feels to have people "pretending you don't even exist,"  August quips, "Welcome to my world"

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Charlotte has given Summer a list to give to Jack indicating which side everyone has ended up on. 

August finds out that what he figured was some kind of "Cheese Touch" involving him was actually called the Plague, which he decides is cooler anyway.

There's some talk of who likes whom.

Summer says her mom says they're all too young to be dating anyway, which August thinks is too bad since so many babes "keep throwing themselves at [him]"

Jack laughs so hard that milk comes out his nose, and the three of them totally crack up.

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It's the middle of January before Jack ever visits August's house, and when he finally does he worries that August's parents will know about the Halloween incident. But it turns out they don't. And they're not really even home anyway.

The boys are discussing what to make for the science fair project when Via walks into August's room.

Via looks carefully at Jack, who realises that not only does she know about the Halloween incident, but she also recognizes him from that day in front of the ice cream shop.

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Via comes back into August's room in a couple minutes and introduces her friend Justin to August and Jack.

August teases Via about her boyfriend, but Justin is cool and the kids chat about Justin's fiddle that looks like it's in a machine gun case, and Zydeco music, which Justin loves.

As soon as Justin and Via are out the door, August and Jack laugh about him.

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