Chapter 4

"The next morning I saw dawn for the first time"(41). Finny had woken up around the same time and took a swim right before we left. We had gotten home right on time for my trigonometry test at ten. Suprisingly when I had recieved it back I had flunked it and was almost enraged at myself because I had never flunked a test before in my life. I think it could have something to do with the Super Suicided Society getting in the way of all my studying and homework I needed to get done. Soon after I was going to study but the finny gave me no time to do anything and we played blitzball for the rest of the afternoon. When we finally got home I decided to work on my trigonometry but then finny told me " I work to hard". He told me all I wanted was to be the valvictorian but of course I denied. I just wanted something I could hold over finny something that he could not do. I feel like he is trying to take this away from me so I wont be better than him in any way. I asked him how he would feel if I had become valvictorian and he had a come back in a joking manner. I started to become angry and felt a rivalry coming between us that I had never noticed before. So as I fellt this I decided to work harder and harder. I blew right by my next closest competitor Chet Douglas and just kept moving. Finny couldnt keep up with me academically of course but he could make up for it in athletics. For the next couple weeks me and finny got along well but never once brought up that night. The next night finny came in and told me that Leper Lepellier was going to make the jump off the limb off the tree. I did not believe this because I thought it was a way for finny to keep me away from my studies. But I decided to go because I was a main member of the society and felt I needed to be there. As we arrived at the tree we decided to make a double jump. But as I got to the top of the limb I stumbbled and this had made finny fall into the river.