One night while Davy is out, the police are in his New York City apartment when Millie calls. The investigation drives Davy to move to Oklahoma, where he gets an apartment near Millie. The New York police start investigating Davy after he saves a neighbor from an attack by jumping her abusive husband to a park the husband turns out to be a police officer. Mary left the family after being severely beaten by David's father, and all her attempts to contact David over the years were intercepted by his father. Davy also manages to locate and reunite with his long-lost mother, Mary Niles.

Millie and Davy continue to see each other and begin to fall in love. The two officially start a romantic relationship and make love. Feeling bad for Davy, Millie invites him to stay the night at her place. Davy later visits her in Oklahoma, and they attend a party, where he accidentally runs into Millie's ex-boyfriend, Mark, who tries to fight him, forcing David to jump Mark away, unnoticed. He then begins a life of reading, attending plays, and dining in fancy restaurants.Īt a play, he meets a 21-year-old woman named Millie Harrison, and they spend some time touring New York before she returns to college in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

After being mugged and discovering that he can't get a job without a birth certificate and/or social security number, Davy robs a local bank by teleporting inside the safe, stealing nearly a million dollars. Vowing never to return to his father's house, Davy makes his way to New York City.

The origin of this power is never explained, but he ends up using this power continually throughout the novel.

This is a place that Davy is familiar with and spends a lot of time in, which is why he was able to easily teleport there. One evening, while being physically abused by his father, David 'Davy' Rice unexpectedly teleports (or 'jumps') and finds himself in the local library, the Stanville Library.

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