Chapter 6
Bennett had taken Math for Liberal Arts—math for people who wouldn’t ever use it again—and Chad Fleming was in the class. Chad was two inches shorter than Bennett, and wore sporty clothes to show off his athletic body. He had short, dirty blonde hair and a thick goatee on his chin. Besides class, Bennett often watched Chad walk through the dorms or play Frisbee on the quad, sweaty and egotistical. That year, Bennett never got the nerve to talk to Chad, but he eavesdropped on conversations and got to know him.
Bennett was overjoyed when he spotted Chad moving into a dorm room on the same floor the next school year. Most of the freshmen had to share rooms, but as sophomores, they were given rooms to themselves. Their RA gave them activities to get to know one another, and Chad in
