All Your Perfects

Content Warning: The Chapter 22 Summary includes a miscarriage.

Quinn and Graham are inseparable for months after they reconnect, sleeping together every night. One night, they attempt to make it to Ava’s Halloween party on time but keep getting distracted by sex. Graham asks when he’ll get to meet her mother Avril, but Quinn’s afraid that he’ll judge her based on her mother; she says he can meet Avril next week. The couple goes to the party. Ava has dressed as Avril for Halloween, and playfully criticizes the couple as Avril. Graham and Ava’s husband, Reid, hit it off and become friends. Ava privately tells Quinn that she can tell Graham is in love with her.

Quinn packs a bag, hoping to be gone before Graham returns home the day after his cheating. She plans to go to her mother’s house, but dreads Avril being smug about it. As she finishes packing, she sees the wooden box she mentioned several times before. The box’s key is taped to the underside of it; Quinn thinks she’ll “finally get to see what’s inside of it after all” (166). Graham returns before she can open the box and panics at the sight of her holding it.