After the events of the past couple of chapters, the beginning was well...boring.
Gene reflected on the differences between summer Devon and winter Devon. He seems to get really sentimental with all these strange images brought to mind about gypsy summer with music and such.
Cliff Quakenbush enters the picture, when the two get in a fight once Gene takes a job that normally disabled boys take. Gene hits Quakenbush, and the two fall into the river. Gene initially claims he fought it for Finny, yet realizes it was more for himself.
Gene seems to have been fond of summer term when he feels he should have "taken advantage of the situation", however he had earlier referred to it as a time of hate and darkness. The difference in how he views it seems to be centered around Finny's falling and the end of their rivalry.
Finny seems to refuse to believe Gene tried to hurt him, and Finny and Gene talk over the phone. Finny gets irritated with Gene for him not participating in sports, and when Finny tells Gene to play them for him (finny), Gene says "this must have been my purpose form the first: to become a part of Phineas." Literally the creepiest sentence of the chapters if not the book. Sort of like his whole trying on Finny's clothes phase. Just weird. Who does that even?
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