Chapter 1

It all started one day when I came back to DevenSchool in New Hampshire. I went into the gloomy town of where devon was. But as I went into the driveway of the school it seemed as though the whole setting had changed into a nice and calm place. It seemed as though "I had forgotten how beautiful it was" (2). As I drove up to the school I decided I wanted to visit two main place. The first place I wanted to go was the marble stairs in the First Academy Building. As I got to the steps I noticed how unusually hard they where. Even after 15 years "The worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep" (3). After I was done wandering around the marble staircase I decided to move on to the tree that me and finny had alwayus played on. Finny was my roomate in Devon. After wandering around in the woods outside of Devon I "Finally identified the tree by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk." (7) Now that I think of it this tree seems a lot smaller then I had imagined. I seem to keep having flashbacks of the time me and finny and a few other buddies were going to jumb of the limb of this tree into the river below. I can still remember finny's words being " Do you want me to go first?" (7). I wanted to say no but of course he wouldnt give me the time to do that. Finny always seemed as though he wanted ppeople to look at him as if he was a rebble and did not need any parental vision. I always looked on him as if he was always independent like I would want him to be with me if we were by ourselfs. After finny jumped I was forced to so i would not look bad. But of course we both knew that the other boys were not going to jump off the limb.