The 57 Bus: Part 2: If Summary & Analysis

Skeet’s death “killed Richard,” Cherie says. Skeet started to hang out with some pretty bad kids after he ran away from the group home, and now Cherie thinks that if they hadn’t skipped school that day and gone to the beach, “maybe Skeet would still be alive.” When Cherie attended Skeet’s funeral, she nearly “passed out” after seeing him in the casket and had to be “held up.” “But at least she wasn’t alone,” Slater writes. Richard was alone at the group home and “had no one beside him to keep him from falling.”