While Tick is having her isolated lunch in the empty cafeteria, Mr. Meyer, her principal, interrupts her bringing John Voss in to dine with her. John Voss is the boy from her art class who never speaks, dresses funny and is in the basement of the social pecking order. John has absolutely no friends and is known only for his brilliance with things digital. In a hallway conference, Mr. Meyer tells Tick that he has found someone for her to have lunch with, as if the plan were to assure her of the socializing benefits of communal eating. She knows he is lying-that John Voss is the butt of brutal teasing in the lunchroom and the gesture is simply to remove him conveniently from that untenable situation. Tick has made a.....
