Summary

Chapter 14

This chapter summarizes a few lessons Laura tried to impart to Maurice. She warns him against doing drugs, although he has more experience seeing what drugs do firsthand and knows better. She shows him how to make a cake from a recipe, which is a bizarre thing to him. He's never made anything, or cooked anything, before. She always asks him about what he wants to be when he grows up. He says he wants to be a police officer, because he's seen too many bad ones and he wants to be a good one.

Later on in the month, Maurice's mother is arrested for drugs, and Maurice is in tears. He finally opens up to Laura about Darcella's history ( a history the reader has already been aware of). Although Laura generally knew what was going on, now she knows all the...