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Casey, who won the poker game, decides that Ryan Dean and Chas have to drive to the nearest town and get them all Halloween costumes before school starts the next morning. Chas is too drunk to drive, and Ryan Dean is both too young to have a license and too drunk, so a sober Joey offers to drive them in Chas’s car.
The three boys drive toward town, and Joey pulls into a gas station. Chas unexpectedly asks Ryan Dean what’s going on between him and Megan. Even though he’s nervous about what Chas will do to him, Ryan Dean admits that he and Megan have been fooling around. To his surprise, Chas is more sad than angry, adding that Megan already told him about her and Ryan Dean. Relieved not to be keeping a secret from Chas, Ryan Dean gets out of the car to use the bathroom while Joey goes inside the gas station to get coffee. Joey says he thinks that Chas is crying. When the boys return to the car, Chas is gone.
By Andrew Smith
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