Evvie Drake Starts Over

Andy texts Evvie, asking if they can get together for Saturday morning breakfast and if Monica can attend. She agrees, although secretly she wishes it was just the two of them. She texts Dean that she is meeting Andy. He encourages her to attend. Holmes writes, “She sent him a yellow heart. All the hearts were different to her, shaded and pleasantly oblique and sent in a language only she spoke—[…] The yellow heart was for gratitude” (150).

When they arrive at the café, Evvie immediately realizes that Andy has been eating here with Monica because servers know what she wants to eat and drink. They have a very awkward conversation, with Andy finally getting around to apologizing for upsetting her when he asked all those questions about the night that Tim died.

Dean takes Evvie to a practice field to learn how to throw the baseball. He gives her a glove that is black with pink laces. He shows her how to catch the ball and throw it back. Eventually he teaches her how to wind up and pitch. She hurls her first pitch straight into the ground.

Evvie continually talks to him about his ability to throw.