Chapter 5 Summary

Annabel dives right into the laundry, annoyed at her mother for nearly allowing her father to run out of shirts. Annabel collects the shirts and other clothes from her parents' room and then decides to add a few other things: a pair of sneakers, a rug the dog sleeps on, and an old T-shirt of Annabel's. Then she adds nearly two cups of detergent and three quarters a cup of Clorox.

Annabel settles down to watch television. The doorbell rings a minute later, and Annabel finds the boy from upstairs, Boris, a boy she has a crush on, standing on the other side. Annabel lets him in, offers him Vitamin C for an apparent cold, and invites him to play a game of Nok Hockey on her living room floor, all the while extolling Annabel's virtues. Boris catches sight of Annabel's room and...