The detective asks to speak to Quentin privately, and once in a separate room the detective asks Quentin to admit if he knows where Margo is or if she has been arranging her past escapades with anyone else. The detective brings up that Margo has been known to leave a trail of clues, like leaving a bowl of alphabet soup with only the letters M, I, S, and P when she ran away to Mississippi. The detective asks Quentin if he saw Margo after she came to his window on Wednesday night, to which Q lies, 'No, why?'(p.101.) Margo's parents are quite upset and say that they are going to change the locks since Margo is 18 and is not treated as a missing minor anymore, unlike the last five times they've had to file missing person reports on her. When he emerges from his room, he finds his parents and Margo's sitting with a large detective named Otis Warren. Quentin keeps a lookout for Margo, who still hasn't returned 48 hours later when Quentin awakes on Saturday morning. Ben comes over that night to play a video game called Resurrection and Jase and Chuck come by to make peace, shaking their hands so hard that Ben lets out a load groan after they leave. Though Jase knows that it's Quentin sending the email, the threat still convinces him to stop the attacks. At home in the afternoon, Quentin creates a fake email account and emails Jase, threatening the release of the photo. Quentin vows to him that this will be fixed. Chuck, along with two other bullies, run over bikes and shoot a water cannon full of pee on a small freshman boy. Margo often ran off for multiple days, so people are not surprised, but it does mean that the popular bullies begin to pick on freshmen and band geeks again, which Margo seemingly prevents while present at school. Quentin feels a curious and jealous of whatever adventures she got up to without him and by that night there are many rumors passing around about where Margo is. They talk about Jase and Margo and then Quentin returns to the rest of his normal day, noting that Margo's car was still missing as it had been that morning, meaning she had skipped school all day. Quentin falls in and out of sleep in his classes for the first half of the day and then meets Ben for lunch in 'RHAPAW' or 'Rode Hard And Put Away Wet'(p.90) which is a car that Ben's siblings had all driven first and passed down to him.

Q tells Ben and Radar about the night before once they are in private, and the three of them see Chuck Parson walk down the hall with two missing eyebrows (having evidently shaved the second one off to match the one Margo and Quentin applied Veet to). He banters as usual with his parents, who suspect nothing, and then drives to school with his mother. Part II is called 'The Grass.' After sleeping for half an hour, Quentin awakes for school.

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