Chap 30, "Bridge"

Wrestling weighins, puberty, self-consciousness, and promiscuity twirl in the minds of the boys becoming better than friends, but Pop finds Taco's Mad Dog up in Paco's room.  Uh oh!  Should a good kid like Paco be hanging around with a ragamuffin like Taco, who even admits he sort of hit on Paco's dad to see if he was like the others whom he manipulated to acquire drugs, alcohol, and what seems to him like a safer place to spend the night.  Taco is making a living at being a victim, but Paco is trying to show him a better way:  by becoming his brother.  Will Paco have to draw the line on his own codependence?

The picture posted is another of John from his book On My Knees.