Yeah, except the magic boy was fucked.
Not enough voodoo in the world to pull him out of this shit.
The starting quarterback wasn’t gonna start-not next season, maybe not ever with that broken wing-and his family had considerable swag in Orange County. You put that up against the son of a dope dealer with a bad track record of his own and Chon was going to jail.
Maybe prison, because he’d just turned eighteen.
O wanted to stick up for him. Said she’d press charges against QB-for sexual assault, battery, her mom knew lawyers who would help him, but Chon told her not to.
A survivor of the high school experience, he knew what she couldn’t-as a freshman, her high school life was already going to be miserable. If she took his side in this thing the whole school was going to make her into the slut, the cocktease who got the star QB injured, who ruined the season. It was going to be bad enough as it was; there was no sense in making it worse.
He told her to let it go as just a fight on the beach.
Ben talked him into going to see his dad.
Here’s why this was maybe not Ben’s best idea.