How It All Goes Down
- Flash forward a couple of weeks to the Fourth of July, which is still celebrated in Lena's world.
- Lena goes over to Hana's house so they can go together to their annual Fourth fireworks.
- But Hana is listening to forbidden music, "music that makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry" (8.30). Plus, Hana's going to a party. With boys.
- When Lena hears this, she totally loses her mind. She goes crazy and feels sick. Don't worry, Lena, the same thing happens to us when we hear Limp Bizkit.
- Now Lena knows why Hana's been acting strange. She might have amor deliria nervosa, a.k.a. the love disease, which is illegal in this world.
- Lena thinks that Hana has "been turning into someone I don't know" (8.40).
- They argue back and forth, with Hana telling Lena that she can't live her live "being so scared all the time" (8.72) and Lena telling Hana that she's going to get herself killed.
- Finally, Hana tells Lena that she has to get over her mother's death, to which Lena eloquently responds, "F*** you" (8.82).
- Lena storms out of Hana's house and walks back home, feeling lucky that someday she'll be cured and never have to worry about the deliria ever again.