Gene wakes on the beach just before dawn and is soon captivated by a breathtaking sunrise. Finny wakes and, despite Gene's insistence that they haven't enough time, decides to take a quick morning swim. After a fruitless search for the seventy-five cents that the boys were going to spend on breakfast, the two boys race home, arriving just in time for Gene's trigonometry test, which he fails. Finny distracts Gene from his worries with an afternoon of blitzball and, that evening, with a meeting of the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session.
Later, in the room, Gene tries to catch up on his trigonometry. Finny teases him for working so hard, accusing him of wanting to be valedictorian. Gene protests, insisting that he'd never waste his time on such a thing. Phineas retorts.....
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