Cameron tells the sheriff about Len’s plan to blow up a dumpster at the school. He says Len asked him to accompany him to his father’s work to get money. This was to buy fuses to light the cherry bombs Len had made. When they arrived at his father’s job, Len and Cameron witnessed Len’s father being chewed out by his boss. Len and Cameron left without getting the money for the fuses, and Cameron notes that Len was “out-of-his-mind mad” about the incident (125).

Cameron recalls Len’s anger at Carla and calling her “a fool and a slut” (126). Len also called her a “Tulsa girl” (127); Cameron notes that “Tulsa” is “a slut” spelled backward. Later, Carla and Len made up.

Cameron says Len blew up at him when he refused to paint “Stop the Violence” on the school walls (114). Len called him “a traitor” and a “Judas,” Cameron says. After talking with Carla, Cameron changed his mind and decided to go along with Len’s plan. Len asked him to buy paint, so he figured Len had given up on painting in blood. Cameron didn’t think anything terrible would happen.

Cameron says he went to the school library on the morning of April 22nd and entered through an unlocked basement door.