Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child sexual abuse, child abuse, antigay bias, substance use, addiction, death, and sexual content.

In Eden’s poem, she muses about how need and desire are strange things to experience. She thinks that she will be consumed with the need to feel Andrew touching her.

Eden and Andrew have been together for six months. After having sex, they have become comfortable with each other’s bodies. Since she cannot go on birth control without her parents finding out, Andrew uses condoms.

Eden wants to see Andrew on Saturday, but she knows she must lie to her mother. Her mother has become more suspicious of Eden’s actions lately, so Eden tells her that she is going over to her friend Shania’s house to work on a school project. Eden decides to go over to Shania’s house before she sees Andrew.