Park
- Park thinks Eleanor doesn't seem right the next day; she doesn't talk on the bus, just leans on Park.
- He doesn't tell her his news, yet.
Eleanor
- She can't figure out where she would go this time, if she needed to leave her house. She knows she can't go back to the Hickmans, because her mom asked if Eleanor could stay with them for a few days, and then didn't come back for a year.
- When Richie kicked Eleanor out, she hadn't seen it coming, because "she never thought it could happen […] and she never ever thought her mom would go along with it" (25.18). She figures Richie must have known that her mom's loyalties had somehow shifted.
- Finally, we find out what happened that day, when Eleanor was kicked out: She thinks it was really her fault—that she was "asking for it" (25.19). She was typing song lyrics on an old typewriter in her room, which she loved. Richie was in a terrible mood (hung over, it seems), and her mom was hovering around him, offering to bring him things to help. "Relentlessly submissive," Eleanor remembers. "It was humiliating to be in the same room" (25.22).
- As Eleanor was typing the lyrics to Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair," Richie yelled at Eleanor's mom to make Eleanor be quiet.
- Eleanor's mom asked Eleanor to be quiet, but "without really thinking about why" (25.26), Eleanor keeps typing.
- Richie stormed upstairs, picked up the typewriter, and threw it into the wall hard enough to send it through the plaster, shouting and cursing at Eleanor, screaming things like "BEGGING FOR IT" (25.41) at Eleanor. Eleanor told him she hated him, and then she cursed at him in return; "In Eleanor's head, the house shook" (25.50).
- Eleanor's description is terrifying: She was too scared to even move when her mom came to pull her out of Richie's way. Her mom pushed her down the stairs, presumably to get her out of Richie's path, and once she got out of the house, she just kept running down the sidewalk. Eleanor's mom came out of the house and took her to a neighbor's.
- Eleanor thinks now that if she'd known what was about to happen, she would have gone back to say goodbye to her siblings. And maybe she would have begged Richie for forgiveness.
- She hopes Richie can't tell that she would still beg for forgiveness if it meant she could stay.
Park
- Eleanor doesn't pay attention in class or talk much all day. She just leans on Park. Park finally tells her he's not grounded anymore, and tells her she can come over again, but she doesn't really react.
- Park asks her if she still misses him, and she looks like she's about to cry. "It felt like she was slipping away," Park thinks, but she tells him she's "just really tired" (25.82-83).