Chapters 2 & 3: Further from the Bayou & Getting Along Summary

As the twins set out with their father for Greenwood School in Baton Rouge. Ruby feels a bit nostalgic for the people she has grown to love in New Orleans, whom she is now leaving behind. Gisselle continues to stew about their new life, while also fretting that Ruby's lower class background and how it might embarrass both of them at this elite new school. She continues complaining as they reach the Greenwood campus about how insurmountable it will be in her wheelchair. Ruby and Gisselle meet their dorm "house mother," Mrs. Penny, and their quad-mates: Jacqueline, Samantha, Kate, Victoria, and Abby. Abby is a new student, like the twins. She and Ruby become fast friends, although Ruby immediately senses that Abby has a secret, a mysterious past like her own...