Sarah addresses Eddie in a letter, asking if he remembers their last night together when she was supposed to recount her life story. She says that she’ll begin it in the letter. She describes growing up in the valley, where her parents bought a cottage a year before Sarah was born. She describes her lifelong friendship with Tommy and how much she loved her fearless sister, Hannah, five years her junior. Sarah tells Eddie about her heartbreak at Tommy’s move to LA when they were 15 and about feeling lost without him. She then latched onto Mandy and Claire, and she describes their relationship as “intense and exposing” (115). She says that she’ll leave it there but that she misses him.

Sarah meets Rueben and Kaia at a café. Kaia is friendly, and Sarah can’t find anything objectionable about her, describing her as purely good. Kaia makes conversation, but Sarah becomes distracted by a typing bubble that appears when she opens her messages with Eddie. She puts her phone down and tries to concentrate. When it vibrates, it’s only a message from her father saying that her grandfather’s caretakers have already quit; her parents will be bringing him home to care for him, so they’ll need an extra day before she returns.