This Is Our Story

Kate is in the media arts room at school, alone. Henry enters. He’s doing janitorial work, a punishment for back-talking a teacher. Kate is captivated by the image of the privileged boy emptying garbage cans. She secretly takes photos of him. Before he leaves the room, however, he makes it clear that he knows she’s been photographing him.

In the girls’ bathroom, Kate finds an acquaintance of hers, Julianna Webb, trying to comfort another girl Bree Holder. Bree used to go to St. Bart’s with the River Point Boys. She transferred after an embarrassing incident, in which a compromising photo of her, along with two other girls, was leaked online. The girls were presumably given date-rape drugs before they were put in promiscuous poses. Julianna notes that it’s still unknown who took the photo.

Speaking to Mr. Stone that afternoon, Kate learns he’s going through Grant’s phone and reviewing text messages. He’s matching up contacts in Grant’s phone, which are stored under nicknames, with the actual phone numbers. Kate realizes that her secret connection with Grant will be discovered.

The chapter concludes with an excerpt of John Michael’s interview with a detective, conducted directly after Grant’s death. Kate is watching the video of the interview and providing recorded commentary regarding John Michael’s body language for Mr.