Chapter “Dance, Dance, Dance” is aout Junior´s two different personalities and his secret that he is poor which Roger and Penelope find out.

When you read the first pages of this chapter you can observe that Junior doesn´t tell anybody from his new high school that he is poor(“I lied about how poor I was.” p.125 l.15). That shows that he has fear that someone could lough at him(“I was worried that people would make fun of me[…].” p.129 l.1) and so he doesn´t even tell it his girlfriend Penelope or his friend Roger. But it shows also that Penelope and Roger are very imporatnt for him because he want that they stay his friends and don´t think that he is poor or think something bad about him(“What would they think of me if they knew I sometimes had to hitchlike to school?” p.126 ll.4-5). This chapter also make clear that Junior loves Penelope really and he even goes to Winter Formal although he has only five dollars in his pocket because he doesn´t want that Penelope goes with somebody else to Winter Formal (“But I couldn´t skip Winter Formal. And if I didn´t take Penelope then she would have certainly gone with somebody else.” p.126 ll.16-17). But at the end  everything changes because Penleope asks Junior if he is poor and he tells her the truth. Penelope doesn´t react how Junior has thougt but rather she kisses him on the cheek. So it becomes clear to him that Penelope is a very good friend(“But then I realized that she was being my friend. Being a really good freind, in fact. She was concerne about me.” p.134 ll. 20-22). After Penelope tells Roger that Junior is poor he drives him home and Junior realizes that Roger and Penelope are very good people and friends and he also realizes that ” If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be damn amazing.” (p. 136 ll. 15-16).