Houston, Summer After Senior Year (pp. 192-200) Summary

Steve and Alan pick up their tuxedos but are mistakenly dressed in each other's fitted tuxedos. Steve is alarmed and then amused to discover that aside from tiny differences, they each fit each other's tailored clothes. On the day of the wedding, Steve, Sarah, Alan, and Jackie drive together. Steve anticipates a huge event with numerous celebrities and dreads spending the day in soul-killing boredom. He is instead surprised when a Justice of the Peace at the local county building marries Alan and Jackie in a ten-minute ceremony. Steve wonders why his father wanted him to act as best man when there is no social significance to the event. In a sudden epiphany, Steve realizes that his father's affection for him is indeed real - Steve is not Alan's "show pony...