Part 2: Chapters 19-20 Summary

My Stepfather. One night Chris gets sick, so Cathy goes to search for money in their mother's room alone. When Cathy arrives at the doorway, she finds her stepfather sleeping in a chair. Cathy is shocked by how much younger her stepfather is than her mother. Cathy studies him and is overwhelmed by a desire to kiss him, to see what it is like to be kissed by a man she is not related to. Cathy kisses him and then quickly leaves, refusing to tell Chris what happened. A short time later, Chris returns from a trip to their mother's room and finds Cathy in the attic. Chris tells Cathy that Mother and Bart returned from a party while he was in the room, so he was forced to hide in the closet. Chris overheard Bart tell Mother that...