The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

The cracked mirror in Yami’s room taunts her as she punches it repeatedly, bloodying her knuckles in grief and guilt over Cesar’s suicidal ideation. After cleaning her cuts in the bathroom sink, she looks up at the Mayan Code of the Heart poem, “In Lak’ech Ala K’in,” that Cesar had taped there and notices that she got blood on it. Later, she wakes up in bed and hears her mother crying in the shower. When Maria confronts her, she reveals that she discovered texts on Cesar’s phone showing that Cesar and Jamal were in a relationship. Yami admits that she knew about them, and Maria feels betrayed that both her children kept secrets from her. Yami decides that she will come out to her mother before Cesar returns from the hospital.

At school, Yami avoids Bo, who senses that something is wrong. During lunch, Yami checks on Cesar’s friends to maintain the story that he has pneumonia. When Bo asks again what’s bothering her, Yami becomes short with her and runs to the bathroom when she feels like she is about to cry. Bo follows her and passes toilet paper under the stall door, revealing that she was the person who comforted Yami previously in the bathroom.