Bone, a punk living in upstate New York, had finally found a safe place to settle in after running away from his abusive stepfather and oblivious mother. He was living in an abandoned, immobile school bus with I-Man, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica, and Froggie, a little girl he’d rescued from the drug addict her mother had sold her to. Life with I-Man was good; he’d turned the school bus into a green house and they lived off of a vegetarian Jamaican diet and also acted as a mentor to them, teaching them the ways of the Rastifarian daily. The time came, though, when Bone and I-Man realized that Froggie needed her mother; a fifteen year old runaway and an aged Rastifarian would not suffice in helping her towards adulthood.
After saying goodbye to Froggie and sending her home by bus, Bone soon saw that he, too, needed his mother and left I-Man with the money that he had stolen from the drug addict so he could buy himself a plane t
Bone left his childhood home for the last time to go and visit his mother to see if he couldn’t talk some sense into her, but it’s hopeless. He can’t change her mind about Ken without telling her their secret, which while only incriminating for Ken, would be absolutely humiliating for him. Bone argued with her until she cried because while he knew that hurting her isn’t going to accomplish anything, he has a right to resent her for ignoring all of the pain her husband had been inflicting on him for the majority of his life.
icket home as winter was coming and I-Man couldn’t survive off of frozen vegetable plants. After saying his goodbyes to the man who had saved his life on several occasions---and who’s teachings would probably save him in more then one to come-- he returned home to find that his mother had gone into rehab and his stepfather had lost his job, falling deeply into alcoholism, and ruined his mother’s home
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