Baxter Zevcenko has worked hard to get where he’s gotten. He has good friends, great entrepreneurial expectations, a gorgeous girlfriend—name of Esmé — and if the Spider has a head, it’s him.
The Spider, by the by, is a schoolyard syndicate of porn brokers in indirect competition with the two larger gangs that operate at Westridge High. Things between the Form and the Nice Time Kids are coming to a head, however, and Baxter believes the resulting rise in violence will be bad for business:
One student getting stabbed would be inconvenient. A gang war could be the death knell for [the Spider]. Lockers would be searched, pupils would be questioned, parents would be summoned, and there are just too many trails leading to us.
Really, Baxter has no choice but to intervene—or so he sees it.
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