Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of mental illness, death, disordered eating, emotional abuse, substance use, and sexual content.

In 2017, Lucy attends Bree and Evan’s rehearsal dinner. She allows herself to eat freely, knowing that she will need the strength to face Stephen again. Lucy then gets text messages from Melissa and Dane. Lucy vents to Jackie and Pippa that she is not happy with her life in New York and wants to leave, hating her sales job and feeling frustrated at Dane’s financial unreliability. Jackie and Pippa encourage her to move to Santa Monica, where they live, and she considers it. She expresses gratitude that Stephen’s current girlfriend, Jillian, will not be at the wedding. Evan makes a speech about how happy he is to have met Bree when he did, and this reminds Lucy of when Stephen set Bree up on her first date with Evan.

Lucy recalls reading The Catcher in the Rye in her dorm room on January 13, 2012, and thinking about Macy Petersen. On the same night when she was killed by an intoxicated driver, Macy held Lucy’s hair back when she got sick from drinking too much at a party.