You Belong Here

Outside in the quad, Beckett spots Delilah with a friend whom she thinks is Gen. Delilah says people believe the girl who died fell. No one has questioned Delilah. When Beckett brings up the phone, Delilah shakes her head and mentions lunch plans. She accuses her parents of acting like babysitters, and she remains “mortified” that they called the police because she got “so lost.”

Violet calls Beckett to alert her that campus police will interview the students. Beckett thinks they should get lawyers for Delilah and Bryce, but Violet isn’t sure. Beckett tells Violet that Bryce lied: He wasn’t in the dorms, and she saw him come from the woods. Contradicting what she said in Chapter 3, Violet claims the students don’t do the howling anymore. Beckett assures her that they do, so Violet promises to talk to Bryce.

After reviewing the records, Cliff learns that the school didn’t initiate Beckett’s “leave of absence”; rather, the Bowery family requested a transfer. Beckett wonders if her father used the school’s letterhead to make the leave seem like the school’s idea.

Cliff reveals the impact of the crime on him. He, too, had to “leave,” but he didn’t have the money to leave for Europe.