That's Not What Happened

Lee meets Kellie in a café. Kellie’s hair is cut and bleached. Kellie legally changed her name to Renee Gaynor-Marks, a combination of her middle name and her parents’ last names. She now goes by Renee Marks. She demands to know why Lee wanted to meet; when Lee talks about providing Kellie a chance to tell the truth, Kellie’s brusque demeanor and lack of concern for the McHales’ book confuse Lee. Kellie says she tried to tell the truth, but no one believed her; no new people in her life know that she survived the shooting.

Kellie also tells Lee that Sarah’s death simply made a better story than Kellie’s survival. Kellie attended church, but the church was in the next town. Others’ dismissal of her words was more injurious than her shoulder wound from the shooter; not even the preacher or her own grandmother believed her. Lee realizes Kellie closed the door on the past, and that she is harassing Kellie about a painful situation. Lee sits in the café after Kellie leaves, considering her next move.

Eden contributes a brief victim profile of her cousin, Rosi Martinez. She shares a memory of Rosi asking for her help in reading a manga book.