Wednesday evening, Logan wants to stay home and watch playoff hockey, but his roommate Dean badgers him into going to the movies. Logan welcomes the outing to avoid Hannah. He reflects that he has been obsessing less over Hannah lately, his thoughts increasingly monopolized by his recent sexual encounter with Grace.

At the theater, Logan spots Grace and Ramona near the box office. Both pairs are there to see the same Jason Statham film, and Logan suggests they sit together. Ramona reveals it is Grace’s 19th birthday; Grace is unenthusiastic, and she and Ramona joke about Grace’s mother once performing an improvised birthday rap at a public fair. When Dean returns with tickets, Ramona’s attention shifts to him. The theater is packed, so the group splits into pairs. Seated beside Grace, Logan takes her hand during an action-movie preview and finds her excitement about the film attractive, which arouses him.

Grace is glad the evening happened and finds herself warming to Logan further. Midway through the film, he kisses her, then leads her into a dark utility closet, where they fool around until both reach orgasm, fully clothed. Grace is both thrilled and amused, realizing that she is developing feelings for him.

“Logan”

Thursday evening, Logan plays a hockey video game with Tucker when Dean comes in to warn him that a student named Piper Stevens, who is known for pursuing hockey players and spreading gossip, has been posting on Twitter repeating her younger sister’s claim that Grace fabricated her hookup with Logan. Logan worries that he is only dating Grace to distract himself from Hannah and wonders if he should stop seeing her. Logan argues that plenty of people at the theater witnessed them together, but Dean says Piper has posted with enough confidence that people are buying it, and has even launched a mocking hashtag targeting Grace. Logan is outraged.

Still on Thursday evening, Grace sits in Carver Hall dining hall with Ramona, humiliated by the #GracelessLiar hashtag circulating on Twitter. Logan texts her asking where she is. Other students stare at Grace and whisper.

Logan walks in and kisses her on the mouth in front of the entire dining hall. Playing along as though they had plans, he takes her tray, greets Ramona, and leads Grace out. In his truck, she breaks down crying. Logan explains that Piper chases hockey players and has been hostile toward him since he turned her down the previous year.

He drives them out to a remote clearing with a water tower in Munsen, which is less wealthy than Hastings, where Grace grew up. Despite her fear of heights, Grace lets him coax her up the ladder to the observation platform. Sitting together, they trade pieces of their histories. Logan points out a small pond below where he played hockey as a boy growing up in Munsen. Grace describes spending her childhood at a park gazebo in Hastings talking to older residents, and explains that those conversations led her toward a career as a therapist. Logan admits he has strained relationship with his father, noting Ward’s struggle with alcohol abuse. The evening closes with both of them admitting they have not figured each other out yet.

On Saturday evening, Grace asks Ramona for advice about sex, who tells her to be confident, Grace invites Logan over, and Ramona agrees to vacate the room until midnight. Grace is more invested in an emotional connection than sex but is open to it if things feel right.

“Logan”

Logan resolves to end things in person rather than by text and replies that he is on his way.

When he arrives, Grace pulls him inside and kisses him He cannot stop himself, and the encounter escalates until they are both undressed on her bed. At that point, Grace tells him she has never had sex before. The admission stops Logan , and he gets up, insisting she deserves someone better for her first time. He confesses he has been trying to get over another girl. Hurt and embarrassed, Grace cuts off his explanation and tells him to leave. He apologizes on his way out, and she slams the door behind him.

Immediately after leaving Grace’s room, Logan resists the impulse to drink and heads to the kitchen for a cigarette. He is startled to find Hannah there. She tells him she is done with the awkwardness, sits him down, and asks him directly whether he has feelings for her.

He admits he does. Hannah pushes him to explain why, pointing out that she values committed relationships and is nothing like the women he typically pursues. Logan’s defensive response is a list of relationship-oriented things he wants, and Hannah recognizes that every item describes her relationship with Garrett. She tells him he does not want her; he wants what they have together.

Reviewing his feelings, Logan realizes that most of what he experienced as desire for Hannah was actually a longing for intimacy and partnership. Grace is the person he wants that with, but he ruined things with her. Garrett enters looking suspicious, but Logan apologizes for being distant lately and the friendship is quickly repaired. Logan goes upstairs and calls Grace twice, but both calls go to voicemail. He sends a text asking to talk and waits.

After midnight, Logan has sent Grace three unanswered texts and is fighting the urge to send a fourth. A message arrives from an unfamiliar number. Ramona, who has just heard what happened, flirtatiously offers to come comfort him. Disgusted, Logan immediately forwards the message to Grace with a brief note, then sends one final plea to talk. He falls asleep around 3 am with no reply.

“Grace”

Grace wakes at 5:30 am still hurt from the previous night. She tallies five messages from Logan and reads the forwarded text from Ramona, which is time-stamped roughly 20 minutes after Ramona got home and seemed to sympathize with Grace. Rather than the fury she expects, she feels emotionally detached. Unable to respond to Logan’s last message, she slips into the hallway, calls her mother in Paris, and asks to move her planned visit up as soon as possible.