Which of the following would best describe how Leo is feeling in Chapter 18? Alone, paranoid, or avoided? Support your response with evidence and details from the text.

Leo feels as if he is being avoided.

No one spoke to us.
No one nodded to us.
No one smiled at us.
No one looked at us.
A crowded stairway, and no shoulder, no sleeve brushed us.

Mostly what I noticed were the eyes. Faces turned up from the steps below, but the eyes never connected with us. They went right on through us as if they were gamma rays. Or they nipped our ears and rattled off among the walls and other eyes. I had an urge to look down at myself, to make sure I was there.