chapter 17-part two:AJ

He feels sorry that he treats Ruthie in that bitchy way!!!But it's like a reaction of Ruthie's behaviour because AJ doesn't want that Ruthie moves in too close.
But all of that they talk now about Ruthie's family and about her failings( she doesn't know who she is,...) and about Christian who she likes sometimes more than she should.
Moreover AJ sees again the pictures of his mum's suicide and while seeing this pictures, he starts talking to Ruthie about this hard time and about the situation today.
After this conversation,AJ goes home and Anthony and his friends play "Comptons" and "MGs" (=gangs) and AJ stops it because it isn't good for kids.
In this chapter is also a fight between Franco and AJ because Franco lets Anthony run for him.AJ is shocked and scared because Franco is very brutal.But after saying "mum" Franco lets him go and he runs away.

->Ruthie was right,AJ is so cold because of his mum
->but he can also be sentimental in refer to Anthony
->I have never seen a person like Ruthie,she is too good for this world
->the play which Anthony and his friends play is the real life of Franco