After leaving Brandon’s house, Candice finds her mom already across the street, walking to dinner with Brandon’s mom, Juanita. Anne explains that Joe will be leaving the next morning. Candice goes into her house to see her dad setting up the computer. She immediately asks him, “What happened?” (93) He explains that it’s complicated. Joe also tries to get Candice to admit that something is happening between her and Brandon; she explains that she thinks he might not “like girls, period” (95). Joe feeds Candice dinner and she ends their visit feeling that though her dad “was far from perfect… he was still pretty great” (95). 

Candice watches her father leave the next morning and tries hard not to cry. As she sits on the front steps, she sees Brandon come up, dressed in his church clothes, holding a piece of paper in his hand. Though Candice is still having bad feelings, she listens as Brandon suggests that she come to church with his family; the piece of paper he is holding is a photograph of the Washingtons in front of the building his church used to be in. Brandon thinks they can find someone who might know something about the Washingtons in his congregation.