Chapter 6

I returned from our vacation and went to the first chapel of the school year. Everything seemed like it was all back to normal. Besides the fact that finny was still not back to school. " After morning classes and lunch I went across to see brinker"(66). But then I decided I didn't want to go see brinker and his snails. I had suddenly realized " I was late for my afternoon appointment"(67). On the way to the meeting I stopped at the bridge and started to see a lot of things. " I thought of Phineas not of the tree and pain, but one of Phineas's favorite tricks"(67). This trick was when finny would stand on the top of the canoe like a river god. This had always cheered me up no matter what. I was promoted assistant senior crew manager. But this meant I had to work under Cliff Quackenbush. He was always unhappy and never joyful about anything. He was one of those bullys that you picture taking a four year olds lunch money. He started to get insulted that I took assistant he said " The crew waits for no man"(68). I thought that it was halrious because he took this thing way to serious. But obviously he didn't because he thought that I took this whole thing as a joke. I really didn't I just felt what he said was so uneccesary and funny. He just kept tormenting me to the point where I couldn't hold myself back and I blasted him in the face and we started to fight. We fell into the river, I pulled myself out and he said not to come back, in my head I thought to myself why would you think im gonna come back. When I returned to my dorm Mr. Ludsburry told me that I had a long distance phone call waiting for me. I was curious to see who it was. So I went into get it and it was finny. He had called and wished me a happy first day of the year, gladdly i replied thanks thanks a lot. Then he began to talk about how I was getting kind of crazy and asked me if I had recovered. I told him that I was assistant crew manager and he was so happy for me. But then I had to tell him that I got in a fist fight and don't think I have it anymore. No matter what I said finny was still stuck up in me getting the job. Finally finny told me that I had to take his place in sports which I gladly will do.