Summary

In “October,” Claudia noted that there were many red flags about the situation of Monday’s disappearance. She claimed that if Monday were a color, she would be red. In “The Before,” Monday still had not shown up for school by October. Shayla, a girl in Claudia’s class, mocked Claudia for being lonely without her girlfriend Monday and for taking so long to finish her work in English class. During lunch, Claudia visited her seventh-grade English teacher, Ms. Valente. She told Ms. Valente that Monday was missing and they went to the main office to ask about her. The woman at the office claimed that Monday and all of her siblings were not registered at the school. In “The After,” Claudia wrote a letter to Monday about getting into an advanced dance class. She felt ostracized from the other girls because she...