Summary

Part 1, Chapter 5

Harlow takes Rose out to a bar as a peace offering for staying at her place. She asks Rose all sorts of questions, which catch her off guard. Rose regales her with a story about how when she was five she was sent to live with her grandparents for a few weeks. She was unhappy because there was nothing to do there. After a disastrous play date she decided that she was going to go back to her parents and started to walk home. She stopped at a stranger’s house to ask for food. Fortunately, the man was kind to her and talked her out of trying to walk home. He called her grandparents who picked her up and returned her home, finding her too difficult to take care of. What Rose doesn’t tell Harlow is that she...