The Bleeding Scream
- Auggie loves wearing a mask at school. He doesn't have to keep his head down.
- He even gets a high-five in the hall—looks like he's about to have one of the best days of his life.
- The first thing Auggie sees when he gets to homeroom is Darth Sidious talking to two mummies. Who could possibly be under that Darth Sidious mask? Oh right—Julian.
- The kids are watching the door, waiting for Boba Fett to walk in, but since Auggie is behind a different mask, he walks into homeroom undetected.
- He stealthily sits down at a nearby desk.
- The kids are discussing how much the Darth Sidious mask actually looks like August. They compare him to a shrunken head, and say they think he looks like an orc.
- Julian laughs that if he looked like Auggie, he'd wear a hood over his face every day; one of the mummies says he would kill himself if he looked like Auggie.
- This has got to be the worst conversation to overhear, right?
- And it only gets worse.
- Julian asks the mummy, "Then why do you hang out with him so much?" (1.The Bleeding Scream.12)—and Auggie listens as Jack the mummy tells Julian he only hangs out with Auggie because Mr. Tushman asked him to. The seating was prearranged and Auggie follows him around, so what's he supposed to do?
- Julian's answer? Ditch him.
- In tears under his mask, Auggie flees.