Maria is so glad Clarissa has Things to do that evening; she cajoles her guardian into saying she can have not one but two boys over, and is pretty sure the main reason she gets her way is Clarissa suspects it's actually likely Maria will get into less trouble with these particular boys than she would on her own ( Read more... )

In the morning (after the breakfast incident that suggests to him perhaps photographic evidence of his childhood needs to be...like...burned immediately), Martel acquires Marcus' car keys at earliest opportunity. This does, understandably, involve a ten minute spiel about what will happen to him if anything happens to that car, cut short before it ( Read more... )