Chapter 4 will be killed?

Cath and Nick are in the library, working on their Fiction-Writing assignment.

They're supposed to write a story from the point of view of an unreliable narrator. Cath writes hers in Baz's voice.

They're working on an extracurricular story, too, but Nick's being kind of a notebook hog. He keeps writing ahead, and Cath has to go back and insert her own words into his paragraphs.

They've been talking a lot, and it seems a crush is developing; Cath's even been pretending she has to walk to the same building as Nick after Fiction-Writing class.

Fast-forward to Fajita Friday in Selleck Hall. Wren and Courtney are being vegan, because they're on the Skinny B**** diet—in other words, not for, say, animal rights reasons.

The diet is to make up for the calories in alcohol. Wren says they're only skinny b****es on weekdays; on weekends, they're drunk b****es.

Wren and Courtney want to "just happen" to stop by the library to see Levi. Cath says no way.

Wren's all about getting Cath to kiss new boys now that Abel's out of the picture, but Cath isn't interested in kissing someone she's not really into.

However, she is starting to notice random boys, which is a strange and totally new thing for her.

And one boy she's noticing, besides Nick, is definitely Levi.

This weekend, however, Cath's arranged a ride back to Omaha to visit her dad; she invites Wren, but Wren's planning to party instead.

Back in Fiction-Writing class, Cath hands in her Baz paper, and Professor Piper says she can't wait to read it.

She doesn't know yet that it's about Baz.

Cath has an hour to kill before she meets up with her ride to Omaha, so she goes to Starbucks.

Surprise—it's Levi's Starbucks, and he's working.

He's also being gregarious and charming to everyone, because he's Levi, and that's what he does.

Cath orders a grande coffee, but Levi insists on making her his specialty, a pumpkin mocha breve, instead. Whatever you say, Mr. Fancy Pants Barista.

Back in Omaha, Cath's dad is hard at work on an advertising pitch for a campaign for a food product called Gravioli.

He's also failed to turn on the lights or buy any groceries. Thus: taco truck for dinner, and taco truck all weekend.

When they're not eating tacos, her dad's manically working on the Gravioli pitch, and Cath's working on Carry On, Simon.

On Sunday night, when her dad takes her to meet her ride back to Lincoln, he drops the bombshell: He's been talking to her mom, Laura.

Laura, it seems, wants to see Cath and Wren; she wants to have a relationship with them after all these years.

Cath says she won't even think about it, and is angry with her dad for informing Wren via email instead of talking to them in person, together.

Except, of course, that Wren's not there, because partying is more important.

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