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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of physical and emotional abuse, bullying, substance use, and addiction.

At the end of summer, Aoife is lying on her bed when she hears Joey’s voice downstairs. She jumps out of bed to go shower but runs into Joey in the bathroom. She is dressed only in a bra and underwear. As Aoife sees the attraction in Joey’s eyes, she flirts with him, touching his swollen lip. Joey warns her not to do that with her father around, so she does it again to provoke him. Joey grabs her hands and walks her backward, insisting that she should stop “hunting” him before he decides to hunt her back. Joey lets her go and leaves the room, leaving Aoife breathless at her attraction to him.

Aoife talks with her mother in their kitchen about the new bathroom Joey is helping to build. Aoife asks who her father cheated on her with this time, as he always makes renovations to atone for cheating on her. Aoife scolds her mother for constantly going back to him. Aoife’s mother insists that marriage is complicated, and even if her husband makes mistakes, she is still devoted to him.