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Finny proposes to go to the beach; the trip, which school rules strictly forbid, takes hours by bicycle. Gene agrees despite himself, and they slip away down a road. They sleep there.
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They arrive just in time for Gene’s ten-o’clock test in trigonometry, which he flunks. It is the first time that he has ever failed a test, but Finny gives him little time to worry about it.
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Gene believes that the envy in their relationship is mutual, and now perceives a rivalry. He then concludes that Finny has being trying to distract him from the academics so that he cannot reach it.
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| Are you working hard to become the valedictorian? Jealous I think, hahahahaha! | |
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| No, why would I? Anyways, if I achieve the honor how would you feel? | |
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