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The Sojourn

We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention. He has fevered dreams where he is in the rain and searching for Dante and his own father. He also has dreams where his imprisoned brother, Bernardo, is across a large river while Ari calls for him to return. Ari's father and mother nurse their son back to health, but his bad dreams persist. Dante sketches Ari while he recovers over the next several days.

He refuses to show Ari his sketchbook, but leaves Ari a lifelike drawing of a chair as a gift. When Ari feels better, Dante tells Ari that he and his family are moving to Chicago for the next school term because his father was offered a new job.

The same day that Dante announces his move, the two boys see a bird lying injured in the road. While Dante goes into the road to check on the bird, a car speeds around a corner. Ari dives into the street, pushes Dante out of the way, and is hit by the car. While Dante leaves almost unscathed, Ari is hurt very badly. Both of Ari's legs and his left arm are in casts.

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Dante only suffers minor injuries and is overcome by guilt. Ari makes his friend swear not to talk about the accident, thank him, or cry. Ari is angry when Dante cries because he believes that he should be the one crying. Following the accident, the Quintanas and the Mendozas grow closer. Both boys' mothers talk more frequently and share ideas about their sons. Dante's mother sends him to a therapist to talk about the incident.

Dante visits Ari in the hospital. He also gives Ari his sketchbook, the first time he has shown anyone the book.

Ari is sickened by the gesture, because he believes Dante gives him the book because he feels as if he owes Ari for saving his life. He throws the book against the hospital wall and refuses to look at it. After the incident, Ari's mother suggests that he also see a counselor. Ari lashes out and insists that he will see a therapist when she starts talking about his brother. Ari's father also visits him in the hospital every evening. Ari believes their silent reading is their own way of talking. Three weeks after the accident, Ari's father offers to buy him a car for his upcoming birthday.

Ari asks for an old pick-up truck. Gradually, Ari heals and is able to bathe himself and write again. The improvement makes him happier, but he still feels suffocated in his own home and he dreads the start of the school year with Dante's absence. Before Dante leaves for Chicago, he reveals the two things he loves most in the world are swimming and Ari. However, Ari says that he shouldn't tell him those things, even if they are true.

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The two boys promise each other that they will still be friends when Dante returns in the summer. When school starts again, Ari is reluctant to tell his schoolmates about the accident.

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Two girls from his class, Gina Navarro and Susie Byrd, hound him for answers. Meanwhile, Ari's father gives him a Chevy pickup truck. He decides that when his casts come off, the first place he will drive is to the desert where he can look at the stars. He becomes intent on kissing her. Dante sends Ari several letters. In them he speaks about how he goes to parties, tries marijuana, drinks alcohol, and kisses girls. He finds a stray dog, whom he takes home and names "Legs". Ari's life without Dante revolves around learning to drive, lifting weights, running with Legs, trying to find information about his brother at the library, arguing with Gina and Susie, trying to run into Ileana at school, reading Dante's letters, having bad dreams, and working a part-time job at a burger joint called The Charcoaler.

He writes this list down in his journal. Over Christmas break, Ari finds an envelope in his house marked "Bernardo. In the weeks after, though, Ileana tells Ari that she doesn't want to go out with him because she already has a boyfriend who is in a gang. The next Monday, Ari finds out that Ileana dropped out of school because she got married after getting pregnant.

In his next letter, Dante reveals that he is scared his parents will be disappointed in him if they find out that he wants to kiss boys.

On the last day of school, Ari asks Gina and Susie to drive him out to the desert so that he can get drunk. The summer begins again and Ari begins to work full-time at the Charcoaler. Dante returns from Chicago and the two boys take Ari's truck to the desert. Dante reveals that his mother is pregnant. He hopes that the new baby will be a boy so that he can marry a woman and have children.

While Ari has no problem with Dante's sexuality and will stand by him, he makes it clear he doesn't want Dante trying to kiss him either. One night, Dante convinces Ari to kiss him, saying it is an experiment as he has never kissed another boy and wants to know if he feels anything from kissing Ari. While reluctant, Ari agrees and Dante kisses him with Ari briefly kissing him back. Afterwards, Ari claims to have felt nothing while Dante is upset as he felt something with the kiss, seeming to confirm Dante has feelings for Ari.

Following this event, it becomes increasingly clear that Dante is in love with Ari who appears not to reciprocate Dante's feelings for him. Ari's mother goes to Tucson to visit his Aunt Ophelia leaving Ari and his father alone for a few days. Gina and Susie stop by the drugstore where Dante works, where he tells them about how Ari saved his life.

Ari is furious that Dante broke their rule of not speaking about the accident. Dante brings along two joints the next time he and Ari drive out to the desert and the two of them get high. Dante tells Ari that he likes a boy with whom he works named Daniel. It starts raining while they are in the truck. Both boys take off their clothes and run naked in the rain. The next morning, Ari's father announces that Aunt Ophelia had had a fatal stroke. The two of them drive to Tucson.

Ari remembers staying with his aunt for several months when he was younger. He asks his father why he was left to live with his aunt, and his father tells him that during Bernardo's trial, Ari's mother had a mental breakdown. Ari had to be sent away so that his Aunt Ophelia could take care of him.

At the funeral, Ari realizes that none of his extended family is there. He is told that they disapproved of Aunt Ophelia's lifestyle; she had lived with another woman for many years. Ari's own parents are angry that she was estranged from the rest of the family because of her sexual orientation. After the funeral, Ari's mother offers to finally tell him all about Bernardo.

Ari's mother explains that Bernardo was arrested for murder. When he was fifteen years old, he hired a prostitute off of the street. The prostitute was transgender, whom an infuriated Bernardo killed with his bare fists. He is in prison for life. When Ari returns home, Mr.

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