How It All Goes Down
- Kippy and her parents arrive and they're horrified to find Kippy's roommate sitting there with a half-eaten birthday cake even though it's not her birthday.
- Dolores greets them all, and then listens in as they go outside to talk. Kippy is super not pleased to be rooming with a "hippopotamus" (2.13.29).
- That night, they have a house meeting with all the girls in the dorm. They're warned to stay away from the Top Chef wannabes of culinary school and the scary "lezzy" (2.13.45) "ten-ton Dottie" (2.13.41). Stay classy, you guys.
- When Dolores hears this, she remembers how Dottie kissed her the night before, and she feels sick.
- Back in the room, Dolores goes through Kippy's stuff, looking at her yearbook photo and pictures of her boyfriend, Dante.
- When Kippy returns, she doesn't want to talk to Dolores at all; she thinks Dolores lied to her in all her letters.
- That night, the picnic supper is like high school all over again: Everyone is mean to Dolores.
- The bullying takes a backseat when Kippy, riding on a boy's shoulders, falls off and has to go to the hospital.
- Dolores retreats to her room, and starts reading all of Dante's letters to Kippy. She finds out that Kippy has been lying, too: She and Dante hadn't slept together not because she resisted, but because he did.
- A bunch of people carry Kippy back to her room that night, and Dolores tries to get her to talk like she's a human being.
- Dolores tells Kippy that she's the same person who wrote those letters, she's just fat, plus her mother died, so it's been hard.
- Kippy decides to tell Dolores that she and Dante had made love after all: "It was so beautiful. […] It was unreal" (2.13.135). Yeah, girl, because it never happened.