Chapter 9 (pages 152-160) Summary

Arctor and Donna are stoned. He asks whether he can hold her. Donna tells him no, and that she thinks he is ugly. Arctor becomes furious. Then Donna says she will not have sex with anyone because she plans to use her vagina to smuggle four pounds of cocaine across the Canadian border someday. Arctor heads out on foot.

Donna follows Arctor to apologize. She explains that she is out of it. Arctor says that her hash is laced with opium. Donna says that someday she hopes to get married and live in Oregon, but Arctor isn't the man she wants to marry. She offers him a ride in her MG. Donna briefly squeezes his hand, and the narrator notes that this touch will linger in his heart forever.

Later that night, Arctor brings home a little needle-freak named...