Tricks

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child sexual abuse, antigay bias, substance use, addiction, graphic violence, and illness.

In Eden’s poem, she describes how she feels like she is shrinking from within, and she does not know how to stop.

Eden wakes up to Jerome opening the door to help her escape. They get into Jerome’s car and drive away.

Jerome stops at a gas station and goes inside. Eden tries calling Andrew on Jerome’s cell phone, but the number is no longer in service. Eden tosses Jerome’s keys in the back and gets out of the car. She tells him that she is going to go to the bathroom. When Jerome’s back is turned, she ducks into the back of a truck.