Summary

In Chapter 13, Simone had taken over Nora and Louisa’s outings during their SAT tutoring. They went only to Simone’s apartment or the American Museum of Natural History. Simone was highly intelligent, but she made Louisa nervous. One day while they were at the museum after Louisa had been interrupted several times while trying to draw she accidentally came upon Nora and Simone in a dark hallway in an intimate embrace. Nora’s shirt was unbuttoned and Simone was stroking her breasts.

In Chapter 14, Corporal Vinnie Massaro imagined himself tormenting one of the children who came into his pizza shop and called him Robocop because of his prosthetic arm. He reminded himself to rewind the scenario because he was supposed to manage his anger. He imagined himself going over to the kids’ table and showing them how his...