Jennifer returns home and finds Mr. Cottis’ suitcase in the hall. Jennifer takes out a photo album detailing her mother’s modeling career and looks through it. Although Jennifer still feels uneasy, she reassures herself with the pictures that her mother is “not a prostitute. A model” (195). Seeking further evidence of this assertion, she goes to unzip Mr. Cottis’ suitcase to see if there are any more recent pictures. She takes the envelopes of photographs into the living room and looks them over, seeing pictures of her mother in little to no clothes. Michelle’s mom arrives at the door and starts knocking, and Carol comes down from the bedroom, surprised to find her daughter there.

Carol and Michelle’s mother talk in the kitchen, and Carol reassures her that Jennifer is fine and that there’s nothing to worry about. Jennifer sees Mr. Cottis sneak down the stairs and out of the house, “[a]s if he had come into the house and stolen something from them” (199). Later that night Michelle calls her up and hatches a plan to get even with Lucy’s brothers. They plan to go up tomorrow morning to the reservoir to their camp there and wreck it.