A Duet For Home

June doesn’t consider 5:00 am to be an appropriate time to wake up for school, but she doesn’t want to spend the day with her mother, so she forces herself and her sister to go to school. Before they board the bus, Lulu greets them and gives them candy. June assumes that Lulu works at Huey House, but Lulu explains that she’s a resident. Her father left a year ago and took her family’s money. Once her mother gets her hairstylist certification, they will leave. Lulu mentions the cranberry juice incident and identifies Tyrell and Jeremiah as the culprits. She also assures June and Maybelle that they weren’t the intended target of the prank.

June mentions HSP. She thinks that the program is a positive development because she wants to leave the shelter and move into an apartment, but Lulu has a different opinion. She doesn’t want HSP to become an official policy. Instead, she wants people to have the ability to move into good places once they have jobs and a stable income.

The school bus arrives. It’s small and says “Happy Days Transportation” on the side. The driver, Charlie, playfully teases the children. On the bus, June falls asleep.