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WW2 starts for America when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Malcom seems interested in joining up but Shorty insists that if their numbers are called for the draft they will get out of it.

Ella finds out about Sophia. Malcom reaches his breaking point after fighting with Ella and decides to move out. He moves in with Shorty and promises to cover half the rent.

Malcom breaks up with Laura because she wanted a serious relationship and he just wanted to have fun. He leaves her for a white girl he met at the club who he thought liked him but really she replaced him with a different guy as soon as he left.

Ella made Malcom quit his job at the dance hall and move to the Townsend Drugstore on the hill after she finds him with drugs.

Malcom has three more first- his first drink, his first dance with a girl, and he is about have his hair straightened for the first time.

Red bought a new suit on credit and Ella disapproves. He points out the differences between him and his half sister. She is a "Hill" person and he is a "Street" person.

Malcom got a new shoe shine job and the dance hall and Shorty just gave him his new nickname, Red.

Malcom meets Shorty and Fat Frankie over gambling.

I did not plan to continue this book but I forgot my copy of The Picture of Dorian Grey so, here we are. Malcom has found a neighborhood just outside were Ella lives called Roxbury. Malcom feels at home there even though Ella tells him to steer clear of the place.