Summary

Chapter Fourteen opens with Leigh and Miss Tree having a therapy session, though since Leigh refuses to talk, Miss Tree is instead idly sketching a portrait of her. Leigh tells Miss Tree that she wants coping mechanisms to deal with her grief, rather than discussing her refusal to give up her parent’s case, but Miss Tree says that the two are connected, and she must let go of her obsession with the case in order to heal her grief. Leigh disagrees and storms off to her room, where Big Bodie taunts her about her friendship with Little Bodie, noting “Oh, sweet irony! A wants-to-be-dead girl has made friends with an already-dead boy. Charming!” (156). Leigh decides to go for a ride on her father’s motorcycle. Nacho sees her and says he will come with her on his own motorcycle...