Torey+&+Creed

Torey remembers with his friends about the numerous times that they all nailed on Chris one time or another going all the way back to the second grade. Torey says that he has only punch Chris in the face twice in his whole life, once sending him to get an x-ray, but never hospitalizing him like Bo Richardson did. They all remember how Creed was; he was the annoying kid with "no memory," because everytime a different kid whaled on him for something, he would come back up to them a few days later like it never happened and they were the best of friends. Everyone thought Creed was the weirdest kid around. He always had a big, extensive vocabulary and sometimes just that alone was the reason why he was beat up all the time; he just got on people's nerves.

Torey admits that he punched Chris once in the sixth grade for taking his new guitar, after he had brought it to school, and standing on some desks doing an Elvis routine with it. Torey saw the desk started to shake under Chris' feet, so he grabbed his guitar to put it back in the case before he turned to punch Chris in the nose.

"I kept getting this picture in my head of Creed in the sixth grade, the one time I truly whaled on him. I had only hit about three kids in my whole life, so I remembered it. He stared at me right after. Then blood cam gushing from both nostrils, like two spigots. I kept reliving those seconds between him looking so unglued and that blood gushing. I kept wondering if he felt pain. I wondered if I'd left him wishing he were dead." -pg. 30, ch. 3

Torey is really effected by Creed's disappearance because when Creed writes an e-mail to Mr. Ames, he lists Torey as one of the people that he wish he could be like.