To make Duane feel better and distract him from Jon's death Lemuel decides to tell everyone that he left school because of a socially unacceptable coat closet liaison with a girl who saved him from bullies, and after she claimed his virginity he bitterly wept~
And it worked! Now he's just real pissed off.
Duane does the stupidest thing ever on the next page, prepare to heap scorn upon him.