Cemetery Boys

Yadriel and Maritza chase after Julian. Julian is still extremely upset, and it takes him a while to calm down. Yadriel tries to convince Julian that everything will be alright, but Julian responds, “I’m dead” (196). This catches Yadriel by surprise; he seems to have forgotten that Julian is only a spirit. He does not want Rio to think that Julian abandoned him and offers to talk to Rio again. Julian declines.

When they reach Belvedere Park, Julian gives the dogs a shirt he took from his bedroom to sniff. Michelangelo is uninterested in the shirt after a few sniffs, while Donatello tries to eat it. Though Yadriel is disappointed at the lack of clues, he is relieved that he did not have to face Julian’s dead body. Though Yadriel has only known him as a spirit, “Julian was the most alive person he’d ever met” (199). Maritza and Yadriel try and push Julian to remember more about the night in question, but he can’t. They worry that if Miguel returns on the Day of the Dead, he too will not remember what happened to him.