After Sunday dinner at her sister Fiona’s house, Lily comes back home and gets ready for her date with Charlie Jett. She dresses up and looks gorgeous which isn’t something that she usually feels comfortable doing. Usually she likes her hair up in a bun or in a braid.



All during the date she’s underwhelmed. Charlie didn’t even bother to dress up for her. He’s still in his sweat shirt and shorts that she always sees him in. Has the newness gone out of their relationship? They’ve been dating since they were in high school and she can’t seem to remember the last time he did anything new. They’re still going to the same lounge they’ve been going to for years.

They’re still kissing the same way they’ve always kissed. Outside the house, he says he’s too tired to come in. He’s had a long day at work. She thinks, long day at work? When did you get a job?

Lily goes in the house, braids her hair for sleep and eats an unappetizing bowl of cereal before crawling into bed.

In the morning, her father, Max Frost, makes them breakfast. Her parents live in a small house in the back of Lily’s property. She talks with her parents about her date. They suggest that she go talk with her siblings about their love lives. Maybe they can help her.

Lily catches her sister Fiona across the street just as Fiona has come back from her morning run (she’s got to run off all that baby fat). They talk about how her and Patrick first met in high school during newspaper club and about their recent wedding and child. Lily wishes for a love like that.

She goes to visit her siblings, Jonah and Emily. She really wanted to talk to Emily but she had already left for work. What does Emily do again? Something about a telephone company. Emily recently broke up with her high school girlfriend and probably could have given her clues on how to tell when she might need to break up with someone.

But she’s left with Jonah. They never really got along growing up. He seems distracted by looking at girl’s profiles on the latest dating site and suggests that maybe Lily get out of town for a few and take a break from everything because she’s too tense.

So Lily does just that. She books a camping trip to Granite Falls. Though she would have preferred to go into the city for a weekend and see Bridgeport. All the hotels there were booked because of a Llama convention.

Arriving at her campsite made Lily very sad. Why did I take this trip alone? She misses her parents, their food, her bed. Oh, god, this tent looks terrible. She calls home to tell them she made her and her mother goes on about how she spend some of the best days of her young adulthood camping in Granite Falls. Until she met Lily’s father, of course.

Thankfully, the Granite Falls isn’t all that far from Willow Creek. Fiona sends her husband, Patrick Pancakes to go check on her sister because she can’t with the baby taking up her time. Patrick and Lily talk over s’mores about when Patrick first realized he loved Fiona. It was at their homecoming dance. It was then that he knew they were gonna get married. Patrick heads back home and leaves Lily to walk back to her campsite.

At the communal bathroom, Lily runs into an unexpected person, Clint Jett, her boyfriend’s father. They hit it off and talk about video games, best captains and Clint’s family. As Lily lays in her tent that night, she thinks back on the times she visited Charlie’s house. She had always enjoyed talking with Clint. In fact, she did more talking with Clint than she did with Charlie. Isn’t that weird?

Jonah shows up before Lily heads home to check on his sister. Maybe they haven’t always gotten along but he does love her. He suggests maybe she should try the single life for awhile. Some people just aren’t cut out for dating and marriage. Maybe Charlie is one of them. Besides, his sister can do better.

Lily is barely home for a few hours when Charlie shows up. He doesn’t even realize she had been gone the last three days. Instead, when they first start talking he discusses the most amazing grilled cheese sandwich he had.

Lily starts crying. Clearly Charlie doesn’t care about what she’s feeling. As she tries to explain why she’s so angry and unhappy, Clint knocks on the door. Lily lets him in.

Clint tries talking to them both and realizes that might be a mistake. He leaves them to settle their issues and goes to watch TV in Lily’s living room.

Lily criticizes Charlie and breaks up with him. He does seem upset about that last part. But Lily thinks it’s just because he’s so used to being with her not because he really loves her. Or maybe it was because she implied his mother was a llama.

Maybe she went a little overboard implying that his mom was a llama… but Clint did tell her some things about his wife, Rosa. And she sounded like a real llama.

Clint cheers Lily up by talking about the latest video games. Before leaving for the night, he suggest they hang out. Lily says she’ll think about it. She’s not sure if she wants to hang out with anyone.

The next morning, Lily if feeling pretty confident after making an amazing breakfast. She decides to call Clint and tell him to meet her at the library.

At the library, the talk. She kisses him. Which she thought might be a mistake because, he’s married after all. He’s also the father of her ex. This could get awkward fast. But he assures her it’s okay. He’s liked her for years and was just waiting for her to grow up and his idiot son to make a mistake.

They head back to Lily’s house where they make out spend the evening in bed.

While Lily is sleeping, Clint wonders if he made a mistake. He just cheated on his wife… but then Rosa has cheated on him several times. Maybe it was time for him to get her back. He likes Lily… but enough to leave his wife?

In the morning, Lily can tell something is wrong. Gone is Clint’s warmth from the evening before. He won’t even accept a hug from her. She tells him to go because she’s got to prepare for her Sunday dinner party with the family.

Her family comes over to her house this Sunday. She plays cards with her siblings and they eat garden salad. But all through the day, Lily’s stomach is queasy. Maybe it was the way that she left things with Clint. Or Charlie. God, why did she ever think she loved either of them?

No, she’s definitely not feeling well.

Next Chapter: Jonah and Emily have always been best friends. Will that continue through rooming together in their own place? How will things change when Emily invites her new fling to room with them? And can Jonah talk his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Bailee, into marrying him?