Chapter+4

=Chapter 4 – (p. 18-22) “Too Many Worries” / “Monica Accepts”=


 * Slang- wolfed, p 20**
 * Idiom-**
 * Clarify-**
 * Whined p18 – make a whimpering sound; beg**

__**Summary**__- Linc wakes up with a tender wrist, a sore shoulder and his toe still hurts. He lays in bed thinking about his old school’s championships (1967, 1970, and 1977) and Monica and wonders what she is doing. He gets up and lets Flaco in as his mother is fixing breakfast. She tells Linc that Roy, her boyfriend, is coming over that night to get some head and that the three of them are going to have a three some. Linc does not like Roy (shorter than mother, drives a baby-blue BMW, pudgy and pale) and doesn’t think he is much of a man. Linc asks about his ass crack of a father who lives in Los Angeles and is a parole board officer. He works for the police department and checks up on criminals when they get out of prison. Linc hurries from breakfast to leave for school and tells his mother that he has practice that night, which is a lie, and might not make dinner. He == catches up w/ James and they head to school together. He daydreams through most of his classes and at lunch looks for Monica. He finds her in the library where she is writing in her journal about an argument she and her father had the night before. Linc gets up his nerve and asks Monica to play basketball on Sat. She declines, b/o she is going somewhere, but says she can play on Sunday. Linc is elated. He practically runs home from school at the end of the night.

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