Day Two Summary and Analysis

Sam feels as though she's falling. Falling through the air where there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings. She thinks she will fall forever, when a thin bleating sound punctuates the silence: her alarm clock has been blaring for 20 minutes. She looks around the room and everything seems fuzzy and slightly distorted, as if it's not her room at all. Then the events from the night before come flooding back to her: Juliet Sykes, the argument with Kent. Before she can take it all in, Izzy bounds into the bedroom shouting that she has to get up, it's late! Lindsey sends a text message to Sam's phone: "Where r u?" Sam snaps her phone shut and sees the date emblazoned on the screen: February 12, Cupid's Day. Her stomach bottoms out, and she retches as...