Monument 14

Jake, Brayden, Niko, and Dean gather in the kitchen to drink rum from Dixie cups after the woman dies. Brayden teases Niko about the Boy Scouts; Niko laughs it off. Jake brings up sex and makes it clear he knows Dean has not yet had sex. Jake says, “It’s just absolutely the best thing ever. Once you get it, all you can think of is getting it again” (163).

Dean becomes drunk and angry. Of Astrid, he tells Jake, “You don’t deserve her… You don’t even love her. You just want her so you can get your rocks off” (163). Dean continues speaking to Jake, recalling that he named Astrid’s body parts after “Disney princesses,” which he heard while he was watching them in the kitchen (164). Jake starts punching Dean, and Niko and Brayden pull Jake away after he’s hit Dean a few times. Josie comes in and rushes to Dean’s side. He vomits. 

The next morning, Dean says, “I felt like I’d fallen up a ski lift, then fallen down a black diamond mogul field and been hit by a Snowcat” (165). Dean realizes that he must apologize to Jake and make it seem like he didn’t spy on him and Astrid in the kitchen.