Raymie Nightingale

Raymie, Beverly, and Louisiana leave Mrs. Sylvester and walk back to Ida Nee’s house. On the way Louisiana announces that after dark they are going to rescue Archie from Building 10, where Louisiana believes Archie is hiding behind the closed door. Beverly tries to convince Louisiana that Archie is dead, and the argument continues until they get to Ida’s house and see Beverly’s mother, Raymie’s mother, and a police car parked in the driveway. The girls stop by some bushes at the edge of Ida’s property and nervously listen to Ida shouting at the police about a stolen baton. Suddenly Louisiana’s grandmother, who was hiding in the bushes, reaches out and grabs Raymie’s ankle. Granny tells the startled girls that she has a plan. Granny’s plan is for Louisiana to stay at Raymie’s house for the night to keep Louisiana away from the authorities, but once Granny has gone, the girls make a new plan to meet at midnight and break into Building 10.

At Raymie’s house Louisiana surprises Raymie and her mother by addressing Rhonda as Mrs. Nightingale. Louisiana assumed Raymie was named Raymie Nightingale, and Raymie wonder where Louisiana gets all her strange ideas and, more pertinently, what it would be like to be Raymie Nightingale.