Chapter three begins with a talk among Jamie and his father. His father tells Jamie, that he'll stop giving him his allowance because of his defeat. In one way, he seems like he's very cared about him but on the other hand, he hurts him a lot.
Jamie's father tries to explain to him, that he wants the best for his boy, but Jamie doesn't understand that in a way he does.
The reader gets to know that Jamie is very unhappy with refence to their relationship. Later, Jamie talks to his friend Spider about his rival Danny. But Spider isn't really interested in playing squash, he's bored by that. But he tries to listen to what Jamie wants to talk about.
Later, when Jamie and Spider are sitting in a restaurant in town, the man, which he'd seen ago, appear. He starts getting suspiciously.
But the next problem isn't far away, so when he gets home, his mother's crying and his father blams him that he should snaffles money from his mother's purse. Jamie can't believe what's going on in his house, so he walks away into his shed, which he always uses as a refuge when things're going worse at home, but he notices, that someone had been there...