Jealousy

Pages 21-32: Next morning, Mr. Prud'homme, a summer substitute teacher, asked us about our missed dinner. Finny gave such a ridiculous explanation about our tree jumping that we weren't punished. The rules were more relaxed in summer session partly because of how Finny behaved when he was breaking them. I think we also helped the teachers remember what peace was like and what it was like to be 16. I think this is when my jealousy of Finny started. It seemed he was able to get away with any type of behavior the rest of us would be punished for. He wore a pink shirt and no one teased him about it. He was caught wearing the official Devon School tie as a belt and talked his way out of the problem. I want him to be punished for something but he never is.
Finny has recently formed a club called a suicide society. We agreed to name it The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. The main membership requirement is one jump out of the tree into the river. When we were trying to make a jump, I lost my balance on the limb we were standing on. I would have fallen into the river, but Finny grabbed my arm and saved me. Later I thought if I had fallen I could have broken my back or even killed myself.