The team won the homecoming football game with a last-second pass caught by Ben. They go to the Homecoming dance and Ben has the best night ever dancing with Dallas. That night, Ben stays at Dallas’s house, and she tells him that her uncle raped her when she was 13. She’s afraid that she’s “ruined” and then Ben won’t like her anymore, but he tells her he’s not going anywhere because of that. He really wants to tell Dallas about his medical condition, but he doesn’t want her to think any differently of him or to dump him. Ben continues to chat with Hey-Soos, and he also develops an infatuation for Malcolm X. For one of their school projects, he decides to try to get one of their town streets named after Malcolm X. Everyone else thinks it’s a stupid idea because their town, like Chambers, is pretty much all Caucasian, but Malcolm is somewhat of a hero to Ben. Ben also makes friends with Rudy, former Catholic priest turned town drunk because he has a love for Malcolm X too. He notices that Dallas is so good with her little brother, Joe Henry, and that makes him even more attracted to her. However, a few pages later, Dallas tells him that Joe Henry is actually her son, not her brother. She had him when she was 13 after her uncle raped her. The football team ended up losing the game that would’ve taken them to the state finals, so football season is over now.
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