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that meant I couldn’t hang out with him anymore. No way was I going to catch the “plague” from that freak. That was the name of the game I invented. The Plague. It was simple. If you touched Auggie, and you didn’t wash off the contamination, you died. Everyone in the whole grade played. Except Jack.
    And Summer.
    So here’s the strange thing. I’ve known Summer since we were in third grade, and I never really paid any attention to her, but this year Henry started liking Savanna and they were like, “going out.” Now, by “going out” I don’t mean like high-school stuff, which would be kind of gross barf disgusting. All it means when you’re “going out” is that you hang out together and meet each other at the lockers and sometimes go to the ice-cream shop on Amesfort Avenue after school. So, first Henry started going out with Savanna, and then Miles started going out with Ximena. And I was like, “Yo, what about me?” And then Amos said, “I’m going to ask Summer out,” and I was like, “No way, I’m asking her out!” So that’s when I started kind of liking Summer.
    But it totally bit that Summer, like Jack, was on Team Auggie. It meant I couldn’t hang out with her at all. I couldn’t even say “Wassup” to her because the freak might think I was talking to him or something. So I told Henry to have Savanna invite Summer to the Halloween party at her house. I figured I could hang out with her and maybe even ask her to go out with me. That didn’t work, though, because she ended up leaving the party early. And ever since then, she’s been spending all her time with the freak.
    Okay, okay. I know it’s not nice to call him “the freak,” but like I said before, people have to start being a little less sensitive around here! It’s only a joke, everyone! Don’t take me so seriously! I’m not being mean. I’m just being funny.
    And that’s all I was doing, being totally funny, the day that Jack Will punched me. I had been totally joking! Fooling around.
    I didn’t see it coming at
all
!
    The way I remember it, we were just goofing together, and all of a sudden, he whacks me in the mouth for no reason! Boom!
    And I was like,
Owwwww! You crazy jerkface! You punched me? You actually punched me?
    And the next thing I know, I’m in Nurse Molly’s office, holding one of my teeth in my hand, and Mr. Tushman is there, and I hear him on the phone with my mom saying they’re taking me to the hospital. I could hear my mom screaming on the other end of the line. Then Ms. Rubin, the dean, is leading me into the back of an ambulance and we’re on the way to a hospital! Crazy stuff!
    When we were riding in the ambulance, Ms. Rubin asked me if I knew why Jack hit me. I was like,
Duh, because he’s totally insane!
Not that I could talk much, because my lips were swollen and there was blood all over my mouth.
    Ms. Rubin stayed with me in the hospital until Mom showed up. Mom was more than a little hysterical, as you can imagine. She was crying kind of dramatically every time she saw my face. It was, I have to admit, a little embarrassing.
    Then Dad showed up.
    â€œWho did this?” was the first thing he said, shouting at Ms. Rubin.
    â€œJack Will,” answered Ms. Rubin calmly. “He’s with Mr. Tushman now.”
    â€œJack Will?” cried Mom in shock. “We know the Wills! How could that happen?”
    â€œThere will be a thorough investigation,” answered Ms. Rubin. “Right now, what’s most important is that Julian’s going to be fine . . .”
    â€œFine?” yelled Mom. “Look at his face! Do you think that’s fine? I don’t think that’s fine. This is outrageous. What kind of school is this? I thought kids didn’t punch each other at a school like Beecher Prep. I thought that’s why we