Chapter 4

I failed my triginometery test but its fine ill just have to work harder in that class now. Finny is acting wierd because i have been working hard on school because i wanna do well and succeed. I asked Finny what he would do if I was Valedictorian. "He said I'd kill my self out of jealous envy" (44)He was serious though and i could tell that he really was jealous. I feel like he tried to make me fail so this way i couldn't be better than him in school."The joking manner was a screen "(44). He was truely jealous of me this hurt because he didn't want me to suceed. The only real challenge in school for me is Chet Douglass. Finny thought that chet would beat me "Fat chance you got any way with Chet Douglass around"(44) i no realize everything was a plot fo him to beat me to be better. the only thing i could beat him was school. "Written tests were his down fall"(46). He was a good athellte and I was decent. But he was tereble a school and I lead the class in grades. so I am overall better than he is. I feel really good when I work hard and it shows. I feel good especially when I'm ahead of Chet Douglass. I figure if I am valedictorian I will have matched all of Finny's athletic awards. I told Mr. Prudd'Homme about Finny and I's trip to the beach and he didn't even care I was shocked. One night while I was studying Finny came in and told me Lep was going to jump and I told him my grades were going to drop again. He was shocked because he never knew I had to study he thought it just came naturally to me like sports did to him he told me i could stay but I went just to see Lep jump. I then began to realize mabey there never was a rivalary between the two of us and it was all in my head. Finny and i climbed up to jump just like any meeting until I bumped the branch and Finny plumetted toward the earth with a horrifing thud apon impact. I jumped into the river to see check on him. This can not be good i thought.