Words on Bathroom Walls

With an increase in the ToZaPrex dosage, Adam sees more hallucinations, but he doesn’t struggle to separate reality from the visions. Every so often, something happens that makes him wonder if the hallucinations are “trying to tell me something I can’t see on my own” (43). One day after gym, Adam hears a splash, and sees Rebecca run toward the pool. Adam follows and finds Maya struggling to stay afloat. He jumps in and rescues her. Maya thanks him, leaving Adam to wonder if Rebecca somehow alerted him to the situation.

Later, a nun approaches Adam about being on the Academic Team. He has to join an extracurricular activity, so he agrees. Maya is also on the Team, and they exchange phone numbers. After Adam jokes that the team is the “loser group.” Later, Maya texts Adam a welcome to the “loser group,” and Adam ends the chapter thinking “I think she likes me” (52).

Adam’s great-uncle Greg, whom Adam really liked, also had schizophrenia.

Adam once read about an incident that represents his greatest fear: Convinced that people wanted to kill him, a man leaped from a train, cracking his head open and dying.