Part 2, Chapter 17 Summary

Halley spends the next week in bed, and everything aches. She and her mother don't talk about Macon, and Halley finds it hurts even to try to picture him. She can tell he is trying to get in touch with her, because she can hear him idling and beeping outside her house, but she ignores him, feeling hurt, angry and foolish for what she believed about Macon and how she turned on Scarlett. Scarlett, who is full of pregnancy hormones, is so angry at Macon she says she could kill him with her bare hands, but Halley finds she can't turn her heart off all at once. Around midnight one night, Halley hears Macon throwing stones at her window, and she goes outside to see him. He makes an excuse for not showing at the hospital and tells Halley he has...