Summary

Chapter 4 – Another email conversation between “Jacques” and “Blue,” in which they discuss their relative opinions of dressing up for Halloween, including Blue’s childhood history of dressing up as super-heroes and his comment that he kind of liked the idea of having a secret identity. The emails reveal that Blue is staying home on Halloween to hand out candy because his mother has to work. Meanwhile, a typo in one of Jacques’ emails leads the e-conversation into a bit of sexual banter, which causes Jacques embarrassment.

Chapter 5 – On Halloween, after a day of costume-related fun at school, Simon takes Abby back to his house, where she is going to be staying that night after the Halloween party. After an afternoon of television watching and cuddling with the dog, Abby and Simon go to the party, hosted by soccer jock Garrett (whom Simon kind of...