Lisa is up early, proactively starting her day as usual, when Solomon calls her to tell her the news: He is calling her from outside his house. Thrilled, Lisa goes to Clark’s house to wake him up and bring him to Solomon. Clark is asleep, and naked. As he dresses, Lisa tries to initiate romance, but Clark rejects her, eager to get to Solomon. As they drive together, Lisa realizes that “He’d just had the chance to sleep with his girlfriend and instead he was going on and on about someone else. Lisa had created this monster, but she no longer had any control over it” (169).

Lisa picks a fight, asserting that she did the right thing getting involved in Solomon’s life, which angers Clark. He tells her that if she does write the essay about Solomon, Clark will tell him. They are happy to see Solomon outside, and Solomon even goes in and out of the house. Lisa notices how much Clark takes pictures of the friends, and wonders if he took pictures of Solomon alone while she was gone. She tries to talk herself down from the suspicion by figuring that “Friends take pictures of their friends all the time.