Summary

Wren sets a plate of eggs in front of Hugh while singing “Happy Birthday.” She knows the eggs are perfect because he taught her to make them. She shares an astronomy fact with him. She kisses him and prepares to leave for the school bus. Hugh asks her what she is not telling him. She says she does not know what he is talking about and he assumes she has a birthday surprise for him. She is not hiding a present. She is hiding that she has an appointment to get birth control. She and Ryan had discussed their options and decided this was best. She wants her first time to be perfect. She considers that keeping this secret from her father might be a gift to him because “he got to think she belonged only to him, for a little while...