Pages 180 - 203 Summary

Lia's life continues. Her car engine seizes up and she is forced to take the bus to school from now on. Instead, she walks to burn extra calories. At night, she cannot sleep because Cassie haunts her bedroom, tearing open Lia's skin and pulling out the wiring underneath. Instead of taking sleeping pills, Lia sneaks down into the basement and works out on the elliptical machine until she is so tired she falls asleep instantly. Or she stays up all night knitting a blanket that she hopes will one day be large enough to keep her warm. Other nights, she wakes up in pitch-blackness standing with the refrigerator door open, her hand full of butter or cream cheese. For the next three pages (p.185 -187), the sentence "Must. Not. Eat." is repeated over and over again as the only text on...