In this chapter, we meet a young boy named Darren, who has just turned fifteen. He's been writing in his journal for a while now, but he's got a new problem: his body has changed, and his face has changed too. Darren wants to know what's going on, but his mom won't tell him. She's sending him away to school for extra tuition, but she doesn't want to send him away for extra classes because she's worried that he'll lose his marks. She tells him to go away and take care of himself, because he can't do it all on his own. He wants to be like the other kids,