Race spent all of next day just looking out of the window. He knew Jack would try to break him out, but he didn't know yet if he wanted to. If he stayed, and didn't cause too much trouble, then maybe he would get out early, or at least on sentence. His court date was tomorrow, and he didn't want to skip it. He avoided interaction with the other kids as much as he could. He had a deck of cards that he constantly shuffled, but he never played with anyone else, afraid that when he won it would get on their bad side. 'I wonder when Jack will try to get me out of here.' Race thought, and before he knew it, he was asleep. A tapping on the window woke him up. He stood up and saw Jack. He opened the window.
"Ha, I was wonderin' when you were gonna show up." He said. Jack laughed a bit.
"You know me well Race." He said. "Ready to leave?" Race looked around, he didn't know what to say. The answer was "yes" but he couldn't bring himself to say it.
"Well, Jack if I leave, I'll just get in more trouble, not to mention you and whoeva else you brought along." Race said looking up. "Nah, I'll wait, can't be too long, maybe a couple more months or so, I go ta court tommora, I'll find out then."
"Come on Race!" Jack said "It ain't fair that you gotta be in here for somtin' ya didn't do!" Race just shook his head.
"But they don't know dat Jack, and its betta day don't!" Jack looked at him in disbelief.
"Why!" he asked, "Dat kid deserves to be in dis place 10 times more dan you do!"
"Ya don't undastand Jack!" Race yelled, "and ya neva will!" Race said, and closed the window. He sat down again and saw that all of the boys were watching him. "What!" he screamed, and they turned away. Now that he thought of it, he should have left, but now, he couldn't, and he would have to wait.
Rif-raf walked to the lodging house, deciding that he wanted to apologize to Race, but he didn't know if Race was willing to except. He really messed up this time, and now his friend had to pay for it. He saw Jack, Mush and Blink walking, without Race. Rif-raf thought about it for a second, then went up to Jack.
"Where's Race?" He asked, in a quite voice.
"Ya have a lotta nerve comin' here!" Blink said
"I know, but I had ta talk ta Race."
"Well, ya gonna half ta wait a few months, he's stayin'" Jack said
"What!" Rif-raf cried in disbelief.
"He didn't want no one ta get in trouble, and he wanted ta stick around for court." Jack said, and pushed Rif-raf aside and walked into the lodging house. Rif-raf couldn't believe what he was hearing! First Race takes the blame for unexplained reasons, then he dosen't want to break out of jail! Nothing was making sense to Rif-raf. What could he do? Then, he knew. He turned around, and walked down the dark street.