Darius is also resentful because Chip broke Darius’s backpack yesterday, so he has to use a messenger bag of Dad’s as his carry-on bag (he hates messenger bags). The family is going to visit Iran and they’ll be there over Nowruz, the Persian new year.Ī few weeks later, Darius carries his sleepy younger sister, Laleh, through the airports and tries to ignore Dad when Dad polices what Darius eats (Darius is overweight because of his medication, not because he lacks self-control). Dad shares with Darius that Babou, who has a brain tumor, isn’t going to get better. Darius and Dad briefly say hello, finish their episode, and then go to the kitchen to take their medications-they both take medication for depression. Clearly, Dad has never been bullied-he’s a Teutonic Übermensch, a highly successful, Audi driving, perfect architect.Īfter dinner, Darius and Dad go to the living room for their evening ritual: watching one episode of Star Trek, which is the only time they can be a “real father and son.” Midway through the episode, Mom accepts a video call from her parents in Iran, Mamou and Babou. As usual, Dad suggests that Trent would stop bullying Darius if Darius only stood up for himself. Darius has to call Dad to come pick him up from work at The Tea Haven. Trent and Chip replace the bike seat with rubber testicles that people sometimes hang from trailer hitches. Life is hard enough for teenage Darius, but things get even worse on the day that bully Trent Bolger and his fellow Soulless Minion of Orthodoxy, Chip Cusumano, steal Darius’s bike’s wheels and seat while he’s at work.
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