The secret slowly uncovers..

Marianne calls home early and tells her mom that she needs a ride home early than what her date was offering, so Corinne, Marianne's mother, tells Patrick, one of her son's, to go get her from the house she was at.

Patrick, in his head, talks about how good of a girl Marianne was, and looking back after the family had been destroyed, he should have picked out the flaws of the trip home from Marianne's date's house. Marianne was extra quite on this particular day, but Patrick was relieved that they were going to be able to ride home in silence. After all, going several miles into town to pick up his kid sister on a weekend was not all to appealing. When Marianne got out of the car, Patrick offered to get her stuff out of the trunk. She snapped and said its fine. i have it. its fine. Looking back, Patrick feels so guilty for not realizing that his sister was hurting, and that she had been hurt as well.

The chapter continues to talk about a young lady named Della Rae. She was some "dirty" girl whom not many people we fond of. She repeated grades numerous amount of times, was never clean, and was teased and used by the upper class-men. Also, Corinne, the mother of the family, talks about her experience when she was a little child, with her mother one winter afternoon. She talked about how her mother and her were in the car and all of a sudden, a snow storm swept in, trapping them and sending them into a ditch. They got out of the car, and walked for several miles one way. Then, after Corinne's mother prayed, a family of fireflies swooped down and Corinne and her mother decided to follow them. Amazingly, the fireflies led them to shelter, which just so happened to be Corinne's school, which was on break for the winter holidays.

Unfortunately i am forced to continue to put this book down, due to an emense (killed the spelling on that word..) load of homework these past two weeks. But im going to stay up late to read tonight:)) YAYAYAYAY!!!