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My Geography Club
Two weeks after the 'Geography Club' book ends. Kevin is killed when a tyre hits him in the face when he is at a NASCAR race in Phoenix. The murderous car was that of number 24, Jeff Gordon. To Russel's great bereavement Jeff Gordon was not killed in the crash, no, he survived with just a severed leg and a brokeback. This fact was the thing that really made Russel mad. Why did Kevin have to die when he was just a spectator? He was meant to be safe in the crowd; with all the modern day safety precautions how could Kevin, Russel's greatest love be killed by a stray tyre hurtling towards him at high speed. And just because the driver of the car 24 took the corner too fast and smacked into the other car that it was trying to overtake.
Kevin had died instantaneously when the tyre hit him with so much force that his parents could hardly recognise his face when they went to ID the body. With all his heart Russell had hoped they had made a mistake and that it wasn't Kevin who was hit and that it was actually some other poor fool. Russel held on to this hope even while he listened to the eulogy given by Kevins parents. But as Russel listened to the eulogy he forgot about his hope that Kevin wasn't dead, instead he was getting angrier and angrier the longer the eulogy went on. As he listened he thought of all the things Kevin had done and then of all the things he would never get to do. Suddenly he realised that Kevin's parents hadn't really known Kevin at all, the things they said about his childhood may well have been true, but what they said about his present was not. Russell realised that Kevins parents didn't really know Kevin at all. They didn't know what he liked and disliked anymore, they didn't know about his involvement in the Geography Club and they certainly didn't know he was gay.
Russel felt like leaping out of his seat immediately and screaming at Kevins parents and screaming at everyone, and then running home and screaming at his own parents because the didn't know anymore about him than Kevins parents knew about Kevin. Russel held his tongue. He knew he couldn't ruin all these other people's last memories of Kevin by informing them that they knew nothing about him. If he did give in to his desire to scream and shout he knew that he would never be forgiven, everyone at the funeral would hate him. But it was worse because many of Kevin's friends from school were at the funeral, they would tell the rest of the school and Russel would be exiled from everything, but worse still, he wouldn't be the only one everyone would hate. Everyone would find out about the Geography Club and then all its other members would also be hated. Russell couldn't be so seditious as to make them outcasts along with him. No matter what they say he knew that if he did reveal their secrete they wouldn't be as understanding as they say they would.
So Russel stayed quite. He didn't say a word to anyone throughout the entire funeral and then remained quite at the reception. He felt he didn't belong anyway, he wasn't part of Kevin's family and he didn't belong with all the other students from school who attended as they were all jocks and Russel wasn't anymore.