Summary

After Madame Colche gives Emily the information about the poetry contest, Emily composes poems in her mind almost nonstop. She has to concentrate to block out the poems as she listens to K.T. talk about Hannah, her former roommate, at breakfast. She says Hannah had at least three boyfriends, all at the same time. Emily has heard others refer to the girl as a whore. K.T. tells Emily she actually likes animals better than people and goes on to tell a story about her cat speaking Spanish. She challenges Emily to tell her a stranger story, and Emily tells her about a dog she saw hit by a car. She explains the situation was weird because the dog seemed to want to get hit by the car. Paul had been driving the truck that hit the dog. When K.T. asks her...