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The narrative flashes back to eight years ago. Jade taps on Amy’s window and gives her the stolen trigonometry test with the problems solved. Amy says she doesn’t want it and throws it in the trash. However, after Jade leaves, the young girl tells Amy that she’ll fail if she doesn’t cheat.
Amy has six hours left of her shift. She tries to take a nap in the staff lounge but cannot sleep even after using Dr. Silver’s technique. She walks around, stopping at the seclusion rooms. There’s no sound from Seclusion One, which makes Amy nervous, so she tries to talk to Damon Sawyer but receives no answer. In Seclusion Two, Miguel is singing. Amy decides reading might help her sleep, so she goes to Will’s room to borrow one of his John Irving books. Will is in the bathroom, so she helps herself to a copy of The World According to Garp, but when she opens it, she discovers it’s hollowed out and filled with medication.
Will exits the bathroom and Amy covers her intrusion by asking to borrow Cider House Rules; he gives it to her. Thinking about Will’s hidden pills, Amy brings up what happened to Miguel and suggests Will wouldn’t want to be secluded.
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By Freida McFadden