The other Trinity boys struggle to sell their chocolates, while the sale’s treasurer, Brian Cochran, begins tabulating the abysmal totals, afraid of the dark and seemingly unstable Brother Leon’s wrath. On the first day of the chocolate sale, as Brother Leon calls roll and asks each student to accept his quota of fifty chocolates, Jerry refuses to accept his boxes, much to Brother Leon’s dismay. In the days leading up to the chocolate sale, The Goober completes his assignment-loosening the screws on all the furniture in Brother Eugene’s classroom, leading to total bedlam as it all falls apart the next day when students take their seats-while Jerry contemplates his father’s humdrum existence and, by proxy, his own. Archie tells Brother Leon that he can count on the Vigils. Brother Leon knows this is a tall order, and wants the Vigils’ help in getting students excited about the sale. Brother Leon has secured a massive amount of chocolate, and wants for each student at the school to double his quote from previous years and sell fifty boxes at an increased price of two dollars a box. Meanwhile, Brother Leon, the Assistant Headmaster of the school, nervously attempts to recruit Archie-and, by association, the Vigils-to help him with the school’s yearly chocolate sale. The hippie accuses Jerry of staring at him and his friends though Jerry denies doing so, the hippie berates Jerry, calling him a “square boy.” The exchange rattles Jerry. On the way home from tryouts, Jerry has an encounter with a hippie who hangs out in a park across the street from the bus stop. Archie assigns a kid called The Goober to “ Brother Eugene’s room,” and for Jerry Renault-who, Obie tells him, lost his mother to cancer last spring-Archie chooses “ chocolates.” Archie is a cruel, nasty boy, and Obie hates that Archie’s power as the feared assigner of the Vigils gives him free reign to do as he pleases. Archie Costello and his fellow Vigils member Obie watch over the tryouts Archie is selecting students for his legendary “assignments” while Obie, the group’s secretary, writes down their names and assigned tasks. What he doesn’t know is that in the bleachers above the field, two prominent members of the school’s secret society, the Vigils, are watching him. Freshman Jerry Renault subjects himself to football tryouts-though the process is violent and Jerry gets “murdered” by the other, bigger recruits, he feels a sense of pride and hope that he will make the team. It is the start of the school year at Trinity High, an all-boys’ school in New England.
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