Chapter 8 Summary

After Stotan week, the boys go back to their homes and Look forward to the Christmas dance. Walker has decided to do nothing about his dilemma over Devnee and Elaine and prepares to take Devnee to the dance. He takes her to a nice restaurant and has a good time. At the dance, Jeff arrives with his girlfriend, Colleen, who is home from her first year in college at Stanford. Lion arrives in his convertible Jeepster that he has painted to look like a German World War I fighter plane complete with a fake machine gun mounted on the back.

Nortie and Milika arrive at the dance. Milika's eyes are red from crying and Nortie's face is swollen. Milika tells the boys that someone called Nortie's father and told him about Milika. Nortie seems distant and disoriented and Milika says she thinks something...