It’s 1968, You (Ernest Tate) and your older sister (Bethany “Beth” Tate) got send from Dakota all over to Nevada... Just for summer tho. It was just a dumb, stupid camp you had to stay at... At some point, Beth left you and went to talk to some girl, while you warily stared at everyone. Some black n word and a scarred-face ginger were talking about Beth and that pissed Ernest off... After a while, Ernest got a roommate – Michael Addams. He was alright. He didn't bother you. Even tho he and his sister (Maya Addams) were horrible when together. Ernest have learned that the Black dude was Harold (Harry) Beckendorf... and not only he was Black, but also a f word (homo)! And he liked Ernest!(Of course he didn't say that yet) The scarred face was just Richard Hargrove.. you became (kinda) his friend.. and you became friends with some Dave. Dave was okay. (Beckendorf is 15 and Ernest is 13)

it was only a few hours into the Long Walk and they’d already lost their first Walker. A young boy, barely 18, called Curley. The kid had gotten a cramp in his leg and ended up falling behind and getting his ‘ticket’. Ray had grabbed him to try help him ease the cramp, letting him walk with his support. But the boy didn’t last long. It was a horrible thing to experience, the first lost of the walk, but one boy seemed to be taking it harder than the others. Ray had seen Diaz and Curly siting together before the walk and they seemed to stick together during the first few miles but they broke off a little bit before Curley’s cramp. Ray remembers Diaz‘s scream. He was on his third warning but Ray knew he would have ran back if he could.