Chapter 7 Summary: Desperate measures

In the chapter 7 Bruno and Boots were punished by Mr. Sturgeon by taking away their privileges, then Bruno and Boots were talking about their pranks that they did to their roommates Elmer and George. It was well after midnight when Elmer finally fell asleep and about time, thought Bruno as he opened the window and crawled out onto the deserted campus, he made his way to Dormitory 1 and tapped lightly on Boots' window, Boots peered out and beckoned. Bruno hoisted himself up and through the window and Bruno saw all the things that George had in the room and Boots said that George was at the infirmary suffering by fatigue because of the constantly run he did because George was mad at him because of the joke of the false disease, Bruno found it hard to believe that anyone would spend the day dying in bed just because of a few paint spots until Boots gave him the false article.

Bruno and Boots were also recalling the last dance in Miss Scrimmage's gymnasium and they were sad because they wouldn’t be allowed to go to the near annual dance therefore they could see to their girlfriends because in he last dance they put in the punch bowl some whisky as one of their usual pranks and Miss Scrimmage lost the control for drinking the punch with whisky.Bruno and Boots were planning now in how to frame Elmer and George in order to put them in problems with Mr. Sturgeon so that maybe in that way they could be together again as partners without any restriction.