Summary

Chapter 11: Sam meets Dawn at the Hopewell shopping center because Dawn thinks she is pregnant with Ken’s baby. Sam tells Dawn about riding around with Tom Hudson and that she likes him. At K-Mart, Dawn asks Sam to buy the pregnancy test because she is embarrassed. Sam does it and the cashier needs a price check. A clerk comes back waving the pregnancy test in his hand—Dawn is hiding, mortified, between some racks of clothing, but Sam doesn’t care.

Chapter 12: That night, Sam dreams she and Tom have a baby. In the evening, the baby is pureed and in the morning it is whole again. In Sam’s dream she was okay with this arrangement, but is disturbed by it when the morning comes.

That evening Sam eats dinner at Lonnie’s parents’ house. During dinner they talk about Lonnie...