Chapter 6 Summary

Nortie quits the childcare center, leaving a note for Maybelle without speaking to her. Walker is worried because Nortie has also not spoken to his girlfriend, Milika, who he worked with at the center and who goes to a different school. Milika is black, Walker explains, and both her parents and Nortie's parents would be u very angry to learn their children were dating someone from a different race so they have kept their relationship secret.

It is December 16, just before Stotan week is to begin. The teammates convince their parents to let them stay at Lion's apartment and haul some mattresses in to sleep on the floor. The apartment is heated by a single electric heater plugged into an extension cord that runs to an outlet in the bar below the apartment.

The next entry is dated Monday evening of Stotan week...