Chapter 7 Summary

In the hours after her sons leave with their father, Lizabeth feels sad and alone, but Matt comforts her with some things he brought from home, including some movies and a DVD player. Matt's taste for movies containing graphic violence causes some friction in that Lizabeth doesn't enjoy those sorts of films and doesn't want her sons exposed to them. Their differences are quickly resolved, however, and they make love three times. Later, Lizabeth and Matt are wakened by the rapping of pebbles on the window - the flasher. Their attempts to ignore him are thwarted when the flasher throws a shoe through the window, causing Matt, still fully naked, to leap out of bed and out of the house in hot pursuit. He's tackled by the patrolling police, who mistake his nakedness for the flasher's. Lizabeth covers him up with a robe...