- In Torey's basement after church, Ryan and Alex sit around eating hoagies and talking about finding Chris's body somewhere, and it looking disgusting.
- They think it's funny, but Torey doesn't.
- We learn that Ryan's dad is the Chief of Police and Torey has a girlfriend named Leandra. Torey wants to call her because she is super religious and would probably talk about how Chris is happy in heaven, which would counteract all the negative stuff Torey's been hearing through gossip.
- Out of the blue, Ryan gets the idea that he probably hung himself in the woods and the searchers never looked up so they didn't see him dangling right above them.
- Ugh. Torey nips this in the bud, since they're eating and all, then he asks if his friends ever hit Chris.
- Yes, they both did. For being annoying. Ryan beat him up a lot in fourth grade for sucking his thumb, and Alex hit him because Chris nagged him relentlessly in second grade over playing with matchbox cars and how they weren't safe. He wouldn't leave the kids playing cars alone.
- Actually, Chris said Alex should find a more "winsome" pastime, and it was his use of that big word that put him over the edge.
- Then Torey tells them about how Chris took his guitar and pretended to be Elvis on top the desks, and how he hit him then for touching his guitar.
- While his friends giggle about it, Torey gets ticked off and tells them he'd rather not laugh about somebody maybe being dead.
- They tell Torey to give himself a break and chill out because Creed was too much of a wimp to ever really kill himself, even though it is a better story.
- Ryan wishes he could read the note Creed left behind, laughing that it was an email and not a real note.
- Alex then gets the idea that they can probably get it since it's an email; he is good with computers and installed a secret program that can access the library's files from home.
- Supposedly, Chris wrote and sent the email from the library, so Alex finds the note.
- It says that Chris wishes he were born someone else and that he doesn't understand why some boys get everything and have perfect lives and he doesn't. In particular, he mentions Torey and Alex as fortunate in life, and says he wants to be like them.
- While the other guys are busy downing Chris again, Torey gets ticked and takes the note away.
- Now that he's been called out personally by name, Torey feels differently, and a little bad about the fact that a dude might have killed himself because he wasn't, well, him.
- Wanting to find someone to be mad at and someone to blame, Torey thinks that the parents are a part of Chris's problem because his mom made the house like a "drill school," since she'd been a jet pilot in the navy.
- Torey begins to freak out a little bit over the fact his name is in the letter, but is shut down by Alex, who totally downplays the whole thing.
- But then Ryan makes it worse by saying that he doesn't care about anything but finding out what happened and where the body is.
- Torey is absolutely disgusted by this.