- While Torey lies in bed awake, waiting for the house to be asleep before sneaking into the guest room where Ali and the diary are, he thinks about how he might act if he were Greg.
- In a few years, he'd stop being a nice kid and start acting out, just like Bo.
- Then it sinks in that Torey has changed and that it might cause some problems for him.
- The house is silent so Torey tiptoes out and into Ali's room, where she's awake and reading the diary.
- Trying to make out the bad handwriting is hard for her, but she's discovered that Chris had a girlfriend named Isabella who lives in the next town over, called Margate. This is hard to imagine for Torey.
- They read a bunch of lovey-dovey writing about how beautiful this girl is.
- Unable to stand it anymore, Torey skips to the end where there's a list of things that are good about Chris. It seems like he was trying to convince himself that he was good, worthwhile, not a reject.
- Ali wants to search for evidence that Mrs. Creed killed Chris to get Bo off.
- Suddenly, Torey gets it—she didn't kill her son. He knows this because when he called, her reaction was to defend her "baby" and ask about a kidnapping, not about blackmail or something else.