Chapters 7-8 Summary

Cassel returns to the old house and has dinner with Granddad, lying to him that the doctor did some tests but doesn't have the results yet. He takes sleeping pills and that night he experiences no dreams or sleepwalking. Granddad wakes him up the following morning, and Cassel is dismayed to see that his mother's memory charm is no longer in his pockets.

Cassel calls Barron's dormitory at college, but a girl answers and tells him that Barron dropped out earlier in the year. She says she mailed his stuff to him, and Cassel asks what address she sent it to.

As Cassel drives to Barron's new address, he remembers Lila's fourteenth birthday party at a fancy hotel. Cassel saw her in her room beforehand and they pierced each other's ears. They each drank a shot of vodka, then Lila licked...