Summary

Michigan – Cat describes how she got caught skipping school, interrupting the narrative of how her mother and her teachers reacted to describe what she was doing instead – going with Ryder and Marlena to do a drug deal, selling meth to a pair of apparently well-off teenaged boys. This, she comments in narration, made her feel like she belonged, even though Ryder referred to her as an accomplice.

At school, Cat was given a talking to by her mother and the school counselor, who tried to find out what Cat was really doing. Cat describes lying her way out of the interrogation, commenting in narration on how good she was at it. That night, she listened in on the phone as her mother and father had an angry conversation about what happened, her father refusing to believe that there is any reason to...