Chapters 16 - 18 Summary

That night, Lani and Claire walk slowly to the bus stop. Trying to cheer Lani up, Claire asks him about his favorite philosophers and what they might have to say about his situation. Not even philosophy cheers Lani up; he says the philosophers he once idolized were all talk and no action. They "would probably have stepped over a guy trying to slit his wrists outside a bar - to get to all the people [they] could sit and bullshit with inside" (Page 156). Hoping to bring Lani back to a happy time in his life, Claire asks him about his childhood, his first happy memory. Lani tells her about the sick kitten he found dumped on the side of the road that he loved for three days before it died. He also tells her about dressing up in women's clothes for...