Chapter+9

=**Chapter 9 – pgs. 47-51 “Strange Noises”**=

Slang – Idiom – Clarify-aura, 49-distinctive air of quality of a person; that characterizes a person or thing Unscathed, 51 – unharmed or not injured

__**Summary**__-When Lincoln wakes up his knee is swollen, large, throbbing and purple. It was worse than he had expected. His mother tells him that if it is not better by the next day, he will have to go to the doctors. Lincoln hates going to the doctor. Lincoln asks his mother if he can stay home in the morning and just go to school in the afternoon. She wants him to stay home for the day, but he insists that he show up for practice even if he doesn’t play. While his mother gets ready for work, Lincoln calls Monica and asks if he can see her at lunch. They talk about St. Jay, church, etc. She says she will be in the library. Lincoln goes back to bed, and his mother leaves for work. He decides to take off Flaco’s bandage and happily finds that Flaco is good as new. He thinks about his father and Tony. He falls off into a deep sleep. Lincoln wakes up to the strange sounds of the scraping of a chair, footsteps in the kitchen, the rustle of paper and a voice. Flaco starts barking and Lincoln figures that his mother is home checking on him. Lincoln gets up and hobbles down the hall to the kitchen. Lincoln is startled to find a man looking at him with a screwdriver in his hand. Lincoln asks the man who he is and what’s he doing. The man hurries towards the front door. Lincoln throws a mug at the man’s head. The man is gone before Lincoln can stop him. Lincoln yells at him to never come back and throws the sprinkler at him. Lincoln can’t believe that someone had broken into their home – the very reason they had left Mission District.