- Deep in the forest, Lindsey and Colin approach her sanctuary. She tells him about his stories being off—even when he's talking about someone else, it's still all about him.
- Then she switches the conversation to Katherine. Lindsey imagines what she'd be like, and she surmises that Katherine is mean and that's what guys want. She even got TOC that way. Katrina was with him for a while, but she's too easy—guys really go for more complex, meaner girls.
- Colin says it's not so easy for him since no one likes him.
- Wait a minute there, mister. Lindsey doesn't agree—she and Hassan like him, and they don't like anybody. The trick, then, is that he's just got to find people that don't like people. Yeah, that should be easy.
- They go inside the cave that Lindsey found one day while hiking in the eighth grade. It's so dark in there that they can't even see each other; Lindsey feels invisible but with Colin.
- Colin and Lindsey drink some moonshine she got from a local and feel their way around in the dark.
- Then Lindsey tells Colin a story and, if Shmoop can be honest, it's a refreshing change after hearing so much about Colin.
- When she was in third grade, TOC and his pals called Lindsey a dog. Then one Valentine's Day he gave her a gift, and she got really excited that someone was finally nice to her, but when she opened it up, it was a can of dog food.
- Colin feels bad for her and then they wonder whether people could actually love one another if they knew all these memories about each other.
- Lindsey says she's full of it, that she pretends to be one thing with one group of people and another with a different group. Whereas Colin's worried about not mattering, she makes herself matter by fitting in with everyone—she can be funny, bubbly, southern… whatever anyone wants.
- They sit together in silence and then talk some more about their lives—even though Lindsey fakes her way through life, she lets Colin see the real her. She takes him to her cave and bites her thumb in front of him, even though it's private.
- The pair decides to go home and sneak up on Hollis to find out what she's up to. When they get there, they hear fragments of a phone conversation; Hollis is telling someone named Roy to throw some stuff away, but it's not clear what. It's all going down on Thursday.
- Colin and Lindsey go in the house and Hollis greets them, clearly distracted by whatever's going on.
- Hassan gets home all excited about his date… or kissing his date, we should say. His lips are even sore from all the sucking face (so he claims), and he's pretty excited about the fact that Katrina is a college girl.
- Everyone heads to bed, but not before Colin sneaks into Hassan's room to get the deets on his date. The two share everything that happened to them that night, minus the cave with Lindsey since Colin thinks that's super private.
- Hassan muses that if Colin's theorem works, he can predict how long a relationship will last. He better get it to work then.