Part Four: Chapters 62 - 69 Summary

LaVaughn wakes in the middle of the night with cold sweats thinking about Jody and that boy. She pulls her blue crushed velvet dress out of the closet and slices it open like a wound. The next day, she tries to pull a sickie from school, but her mother knows something fishy is going on. She threatens to buy a car with the money she's saved for LaVaughn's college education and forces her daughter to school. LaVaughn feels hopeless, even suicidal, moping around the hallways. For the next few days, she mopes around school, at home, at work, feeling nothing but pity for herself. One afternoon, a flower arrives for LaVaughn, sent through a florist from Jody. There's a note attached but LaVaughn doesn't open it. Instead, she imagines what it might say, and even the most...