Summary

Chapter 17. At dinner, Leidy reveals that Omar has rung three times that evening, but had hung up without saying anything. Pressured by her mother and sister to call him back, Lizet takes the phone into her room and calls her father, assuming, correctly, that it had been him calling. After a brief conversation in which he, unlike anyone else in her family, asks how the semester had gone at school, Ricky invites Lizet to breakfast the next day, and she agrees to meet him. In the morning, having told Leidy and Lourdes that she is meeting Omar, Lizet leaves for breakfast.

Chapter 18. Lizet arrives to meet her father half an hour early, but then feels uncomfortable sitting alone waiting for him. Her discomfort continues once he has arrived. Ricky asks about her time at school, and Lizet holds back from revealing everything about...