July 19 - August 10 Summary

Stargirl opens this section by telling Leo that there is no way she will mail this letter to him. The only way he would read it is if she hands it to him, which means they would have to be in the same room, which means that he would forgive anything unseemly she has to say, particularly about Perry, anyway. This is why she feels free to tell him everything, regardless of how inappropriate it may seem. She writes about an Ondine dream that she had in which she was the mermaid and Perry was Hans, and she writes about Betty Lou's flower, the night-blooming cereus. On July 31, after monitoring the flower's growth, Stargirl is overwhelmed by its beauty when the cereus blooms. She and Betty Lou hold hands through the opened screen door (Betty Lou is inside while...