He got into some trouble last year. JD is like that, always into something. He always has some weed, and everyone knows you can buy it off him. But this last time, JD really laid into a guy. He says it was because of what the guy said about Leah. But he hurt the guy pretty bad. The cops got involved. In the end, JD’s father got him off by agreeing to send JD to a special camp over the summer. JD says it was like a prison camp. The counselors yell at you all day. You have to get up at six in the morning, and you’re always doing something—hiking for days at a time, going on long canoe trips, always something physical so that you collapse at the end of the day. And it doesn’t matter what the weather is, either. If you go on a weeklong hike and it rains every day, too bad for you. When JD got back, he was tanned and a lot stronger than he used to be. He acts differently now too, but probably not in the way the camp hoped he would. He has more confidence. He knows more people. He’s told me about some of the guys he met at the camp.
