Summary

In the first section of Chapter 8: Kissing and Kissing 285-323, Lee notes that Cross came into her dorm room at the beginning of her senior year about 3 a.m. on a night when Martha was away touring a college. She was still disoriented and didn’t recognize him until he asked if he could lie down with her. They laid in bed and flirted with one another. Lee was surprised when Cross remembered the last time they had talked to each other was when they’d gone to the movies during the surprise holiday. Cross got her to talk about a student who had left school because he had broken into Mr. Byden’s house and had been caught trying on women’s clothing. They lay and Cross stroked her hair like he did that day in the taxi. He...