Chapters 17-18, 'A Traumatic Experience I'll Live to Regret, Assuming I Live' and 'Larger Than Life, in Your Face, Undeniable Schwa' Summary

Lexie calls Antsy early in the morning to tell him that she has trauma therapy planned for her grandfather that day. She tells him to call the Schwa to invite him too. Antsy calls the Schwa, who tells him that he has big plans today. Antsy leaves it at that without trying to persuade the Schwa to come, or to confide his plans to him. He realizes later that he should have done, but he doesn't want to deal with the Schwa's problems today.

Lexie pretends to have fallen in Crawley's restaurant in order to get him to come down from his apartment...