Chapter 3

After I had thought about it, I began to think that of course he saved my life but then again he would not have had to if he did not make me go up and climb the tree to prove I wasn't afaid of it. I dont think that I owe any grattitude to finny because it was his fault I was up there in the first place. "The super Super Suicide Society of the summer session was a success from the start"(25).because finny had recruited six more boys to the society. After they had joined both me and finny had decided that we needed to make up some rules for the society. So finny got right to it, one imparticular was my least favorite. This was that at the beginning of each meeting me and finny had to jump off the limb into the river below. I was so terrified of the jump every time yet I still jumped so I could show finny I was just as tough has he was. Finny had gotten word of the summer sports and was disgusted because they had added badmitten to one of the summer sessions. For this he decided to create a new game called "Blitzkriegball or just Blitzball"(29). Me and finny decided to make it a full contact sport. It involved using a medicine ball. This sport was much different from any other sport because it was not divided into two particular teams but who had the ball everyone would go after. If I had the ball everyone would go after me and tackle me untill I had fumbled or thrown it away then if another person had picked it up everyone would go after them and so on. But if you could not outrun the other player you could pass the ball off or be tackled and give it away. In the end there was no real winner. After we finished playing the game we went to the swimming pool and finny broke the records but he told me not to tell anyone I dont know why. We ate dinner at a hot dog stand and then we had a few brews which we had gotten with our draft cards. Finally we decided to sleep on the beach and finny started to tell me how glad he was that I came along with him and that I was his bestfriend. I began to start to say the same but held back. I didnt want to tell him because I didnt know if I could trust him still yet.