Freak the Mighty Chapter 14

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die

• Max stays home the next day from school to wait for Freak to get home from the hospital. These guys are definitely besties.
• Freak tells him everything will be okay once he gets his robotic upgrades.
• At this point, it seems like everything is going to be fine, so obviously something really bad is about to happen.
• And it does. At Christmas time.
• Ugh.
• Max is in the down under trying unsuccessfully to wrap some Christmas presents when he hears Grim and Gram fighting. That's something he never hears.
• It turns out they're fighting because Grim wants to get a gun. Max's dad—good ol' Killer Kane—has been released on parole.
• Luckily, Grim took out a restraining order. But do you really think that's going to stop someone whose nickname is Killer Kane? Yeah, we don't either.