- Cath wakes up in her dorm room. Reagan isn't there, and Cath assumes she spent the night with Levi; she texts Abel, telling him it's her first day.
- She changes clothes in the bathroom, because she doesn't want Reagan to walk in and catch her getting dressed.
- After eating the protein bars she brought with her, so as to avoid the dining hall, Cath logs into her Fanfixx account.
- She writes a message to her fans, apologizing for not uploading a chapter of Carry On, Simon yesterday.
- Cath goes to her first class, American History. There are lots of students. Cath feels awkward.
- After class, she's starving, so she goes back to her dorm room to eat some more protein bars.
- When she gets there, Levi is sitting in the hallway waiting for Reagan, but Cath refuses to let him into their room since she doesn't know him well.
- She calls Wren, who asks if Cath wants to meet her and Courtney for lunch at Selleck Hall tomorrow.
- Reagan and Levi come walking in, and Levi starts making Reagan's bed and trying to make small talk with Cath who is, as you might expect, awkward.
- Levi tells Cath his major is range management, and Reagan tells him not to go off about range management again.
- Fast-forward to Fiction-Writing class, which Cath and everyone else in the room has been waiting for all week.
- Professor Piper, a real-live author, is their teacher. She starts class by asking the room why people write fiction.
- The students give lots of answers: to express themselves, to explore new worlds, to hear their own voices.
- Cath's answer, which she doesn't say aloud: "To be somewhere else.[…] To avoid being anything or anywhere at all. […] To disappear."