How It All Goes Down
- Eva speculates that the fallout from "Thursday" (19.1) would have been bearable if she'd been able to keep Celia. But she's with Franklin, wherever that is.
- Eva goes on to talk about when Celia was born.
- Celia: the opposite of Kevin.
- Kevin treats everyone like crap. Celia is nice.
- Kevin breaks things. Celia plays with broken toys.
- Franklin likes Kevin (inexplicably); he calls Celia "clingy" (19.10).
- Kevin torments Celia by leaving worms in her backpack or carrying her into a tree and leaving her there.
- When Eva is around, Kevin acts "sour, secretive, and sarcastic" (19.23). But he turns on the charm for Franklin, staying on Daddy's good side.
- At school, Kevin writes purposefully banal essays to bore his teachers.
- One day, Kevin gets sick, and Eva has to take care of him.
- Strangely, Kevin acts like a normal person. He lets her take care of him. He doesn't act like a jerk.
- Kevin also drops the "Gee, Dad boisterousness" (19.38) of that act.
- Eva thinks this is the real Kevin, too tired to put up the front he normally does.
- Eva reads Kevin Robin Hood and His Merry Men and it seems to be the first—and only—book Kevin actually loves.