Jack Will
- Jack's seat is next to Auggie's in every class. Auggie suspects this has been pre-arranged, but in spite of this, they still walk and talk together in between all their classes.
- One day a big old eighth grader in a hurry crashes into Auggie and knocks him down.
- As the kid helps Auggie up, he is so surprised by Auggie's face that he utters an involuntary whoa.
- Jack has now spent enough time with Auggie to get why this is funny, and they both crack up.
- But Jack also gets why it isn't funny, and asks Auggie if he ever wants to beat up kids that react to him like that.
- They settle instead on a fantasy of squirting them with squirt guns loaded with slug juice and dog pee.
- Jack asks Auggie if he is "always going to look this way" (1.Jack Will.14), and wonders if maybe he can get plastic surgery or something.
- Auggie doesn't miss a beat and says, "Hello? This is after plastic surgery!" (1.Jack Will.15).
- Then the boys laugh so much together that the teacher separates them.