If I Was Your Girl

After dinner, Amanda tells Grant to drive them to the tree house by the lake. He admits that she’s the first person he’s ever brought home, and she starts to tell him about her past, but they kiss instead. She eventually tells him that she hopes to attend NYU one day because she feels like people will understand her better there. He gets angry because he feels like she’s implying that he can’t understand her. 

Amanda hangs out with the girls. When she and Chloe are alone, Chloe admits that Bee broke up with her. Amanda thinks about how comfortable she feels in Lambertville, like she’s “finally the truest version of myself” (151), despite her secret.

Amanda and Grant go to a Halloween party dressed as characters from Star Wars. Amanda makes a joke about Grant not having the bravery to be a girl, and this prompts him to switch their costumes. They go into the Halloween party pretending to be each other. She thinks there’s something “hilarious about the idea of me dressing as a boy, after so many years of trying to escape it” (157).