- Dang. It's definitely Weird Dream Night for Taylor. Now she's dreaming she's trapped in a tunnel and the boy in the tree's rotting body is trying to rescue her.
- Beginning the next day, Taylor finds herself obsessed with her mom. More than usual, that is. She starts Googling all the aliases her mom used when they lived together—her mom was always using a different name because she was afraid someone was going to take Taylor away.
- Taylor's emotions are only complicated by the fact that she misses Hannah. She starts going to Hannah's in her spare time.
- On one of these occasions, she starts thinking about Hannah's manuscript and how much of it is real and how much is fiction. She finds it particularly weird that in the book, the Townies, Cadets, and Jellicoe School kids are all friends. Friends? That's funny right there.
- Regardless, Taylor feels strongly connected to the characters in the story, and is particularly upset that one of them apparently doesn't make it out alive.
- At Hannah's, Taylor is about to start rereading the manuscript to try to put the events in order when a window breaks downstairs. She hides under a stretcher bed in the middle of the room.
- The intruder reaches the landing and Taylor knows somehow that it's the Brigadier. He seems to know she's there, too, because he's telling her not to be scared.
- In response, Taylor throws the stretcher off her body, hitting him in the head, and runs back to her House.
- Taylor arrives at the House to find a note scribbled on the phone stand: "Hannah called." She responds by totally freaking out and screaming at all the kids and making most of them cry because no one came to find her.
- Up in her room, Taylor stares at Hannah's cat and wonders what it was that he saw that scared him so much. He's in bad shape and is going to die, and this makes her cry.