Joe Hill Conley is one of the neighborhood boys who obsess over the Lisbon sisters. Trip Fontaine chooses him as one of the boys to take the Lisbon girls to the homecoming dance. Joe ends up pairing off with Bonnie, who follows Trip and Lux beneath the bleachers at the dance—which means that Joe also goes beneath the bleachers, where he and Bonnie watch Lux and Trip drink peach schnapps and kiss. Joe and Bonnie do the same, and though Bonnie hesitates at first, she seems to enjoy the experience, judging by the fact that she kisses him again in the car on the way home and asks him to call her soon. Later, when the other boys ask Joe if he talked to Bonnie about Cecilia, he says, “There’s a time for talk and a time for silence.”