Chapter 2 text

Me and Finny skipped dinner that night to go to the lake. That lake had been like a get away for us, for the summer. "He did not have the careless, almost British look of most of the Devon Masters, because he was a substitute for the summer" (14). He enforced such rules as he knew; missing dinner was one of them. Mr Patch-Withers was also another headmaster substitute that we had for the summer. After we got caught skipping dinner I had thought that Finny and I would be in trouble for the summer, but then Finny persuaded the substitute with his talkativeness. Finny had always found a way to get out of trouble. Later on that night Finny decided to wear a bright pink shirt as an emblem of celebration of the first allied bombing of central Europe. I personally thought that he could not pull off that color and I thought he looked like a "fairy". Finny always seemed capable of getting away with virtually anything he wants to do. While we were all sitting down drinking tea and eating we were talking to Mr. and Mrs. Patch-Withers and they had noticed that Finny was wearing the school tie as a belt. Before they could say anything or explain to him about the disrespect he came across a conversation. The conversation was about the bombings in Europe, and how it interested them so much. He managed to get off the subject and idea of his belt which was a relief to Finny and myself. During that day we decided to go to the river like always. We swam for a while in the river, and Finny asked me if I was still afraid of the tree and I told him I wasn't. After we agreed to form a new secret society called the “Super Suicide Society of the summer session.” Discussing our new society we decided to jump off and as I began to fall after turning my back Finny caught me and we both jumped. It seemed to me that at that moment Finny had saved my life.