Chapter 3 Summary

In Chapter 3, we get an account of the incident one night last summer that is referenced in the chain letter.

Tony, Joan, Kipp, Brenda, and Neil are leaving a Beach Boy's concert at the Swing Auditorium outside Los Angeles. Kipp and Brenda are thoroughly drunk, having had beer after beer on the way to the concert. Tony and Joan are both a little high from the marijuana smoke at the concert. Only Neil is not drunk, and it is Neil that leads them back to Kipp's car in the giant parking lot. Kipp is at the wheel and is still drinking as they wait in a long line of cars to leave the parking lot. As they wait, Alison comes up to them and tells them that she and Fran, who were also at the concert, are having car trouble and need help...