Chapter 4 text

To start off a bad week I got my first "F" ever. This was a big deal to me, and the grade was from a trigonometry test. In my eyes I always wanted to graduate first in my class, but Finny always had something to say about my wishes. Even though he was kidding he still thought it would be funny to tell me to make a speech in Latin. It didn't take me that long to get over his rude comments, and we hung out after school that day anyways. Everyday Finny and I go to the tree, and sometimes other people come too. This time was different though, Leper had not jumped off yet. He had to prove to us that he could jump off with us watching. So Finny and I went to the tree to watch Leper jump off. Finny decided to jump off the tree and give Leper some tips. Me and Finny decided to jump off the tree together and show Leper how we jump off. As we were jumping off the branch jiggled and Finny fell into the river bank. After that happened we came to the conclusion that he had broken his leg. I thought it was my fault and I shook the branch, but Finny told me that he thought I would never do that to him because we are best friends. In the back of my head while talking to Finny I could picture myself shaking the branch and making Finny get hurt. Finny and I have fought before and somewhat hurt ourselves, but none of us have ever broken something like this. We would wrestle and fight until we couldn't breathe anymore, but this was just a bad situation that was all of my fault. After Finny fell into the river I had no idea what else to do but to jump in fearlessly and help him. His face expression when trying to save him was indescribable. He was stoic to the pain and had no idea that his leg was broken right away. He had no memory of what happened he just remembered falling out of the tree when standing next to me, and nothing more than that.