It is as though she has taken a piece out of him, leaving behind a hole. While they drive, Colin thinks about the feeling he has in his gut regarding Katherine. Their parents having reluctantly approved the plan, Colin and Hassan take off driving toward nowhere in particular in Colin’s Oldsmobile, which they call “ Satan’s Hearse.” Colin, with his better parental track record, convinces Hassan’s parents that he will be a good influence on Hassan and help him get a job. Hassan, on the other hand, has been worrying his parents because he is a year out of high school, and although he has been accepted to college, he shows no interest in doing anything other than watching Judge Judy.
It is the first time Colin has disappointed his parents. Colin’s father even suggests that Colin is “giving up” on his entire future. (This allowance of freedom is how Colin got their permission last year to go on a television game show called KranialKidz, on which he won the ten thousand dollars that are now going to finance the road trip.) Still, they express disappointment that Colin is giving up his summer, which he could have used to take some college classes ahead of time now that he won’t have Katherine as a distraction. Colin’s parents are easy to convince to allow him to go, in part because their parenting philosophy includes giving Colin the freedom to make his own decisions. Once he finishes his bath, he asks his parents to leave him alone so that he can lie abjectly on the floor, worrying that he will never have a “Eureka” moment in which he makes a new discovery, proving that he is an adult genius and not simply a washed-up child prodigy.Ĭolin’s best friend, Hassan Harbish, finds Colin stewing in his room and convinces him that they should go on a summer road trip so that Colin can get over Katherine. Colin, who has always been called “special,” feels like he does not matter to anyone. They have all been named Katherine, and all of them have broken up with him. Katherine, or more specifically, Katherine XIX, was the nineteenth girl Colin has dated. The day after his graduation from high school finds Colin Singleton sitting in the bathtub, thinking about how he is getting too old to be a child prodigy, and how he wishes his ex-girlfriend, who dumped him the night before, would call him.
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