Summary

In Chapter 5, Alison attended community college for two more semesters and focused on word processing classes. She then moved to Manhattan where she sublet an apartment with a girl named Candy. Alison's parents didn't understand her wanting to move but she told them that living at home was too boring. Alison got a word processing job working nights at an ad agency where she met Veronica on her first time there. Alison longed to get back into the modeling world but she was afraid that Alain's reach in the modeling world could still harm her.

In the present, Alison continues her walk home and she enjoys the scenery, noting that she may soon be too sick to enjoy it. Alison recalls that when she first met Veronica, she was not interested in her but she was curious about her. Veronica would often talk about...