Chapters 25 through 27 Summary

In chapter twenty-five, Scott gets a bag of black jelly beans from Lee. Scott attends another dance and Mouth reveals that he's asked every single girl to dance, working through the class alphabetically. He asks Scott if one might change her mind and Scott says he has no idea what girls think, prompting Mouth to start the process again. Mouth drops by Scott's house one afternoon to pay him back the lunch money he'd borrowed. Mouth is strangely quiet and doesn't stop to talk. The next day Scott and Wesley arrive at school to the news that "the weird kid" committed suicide. Scott runs in the direction he'd seen Lee walking and is relieved to meet her on her way to school. She says it's sweet that he was worried about her and promises that she would never commit suicide. Scott...