- Toswiah/Evie recalls how she spotted head lice on a girl in fifth grade and was happy it was the other girl who got labeled a cootie head.
- Now she feels like the cootie girl, the outcast. Ugh.
- Toswiah/Evie is thinking about running track but knows she'll have to keep it a secret.
- She wishes things could be like before: Now her parents fight all the time, though at least she and Cameron/Anna have grown closer.
- Cameron/Anna is trying to get into a college called Simon's Rock where you can enroll at sixteen—she's got her eyes on the future, and Toswiah/Evie is worried about what will happen to her without her sister around.
- She sees other students with their friends and wonders if Lulu has found a replacement BFF for her yet.