She is terrified and wishes she had ended things with Jake. Jake's girlfriend relives traumatic childhood experiences of a neighbor visiting her mother and threatening to take her away. Believing it to be the janitor, she tries to hide and quickly gets lost. She searches the long corridors in the main building, then realizes she is being followed. Furious, Jake leaves her alone in the car and enters the school building to confront him.Īfter a long wait in the cold car, Jake's girlfriend, scared and worried, goes looking for him. After disposing of the cups, he starts making out with her in the car in front of the school, but stops when he sees the janitor watching them from one of the windows. It is snowing in the middle of the night, and the school is deserted. After getting back on the road, Jake wants to dispose of the cups from their iced drinks at a nearby high school. She recognizes one of the girls that works at the Dairy Queen, but can't pinpoint why. The narrator is exhausted and wants to get home, but reluctantly agrees. During the long drive home, Jake decides to stop for "something sweet" at a Dairy Queen. They ask her awkward questions and she sees unsettling things, like a picture of Jake as a child that looks as if it could be her.
The evening with Jake's parents turns out to be unpleasant and scary. It is a long drive, and they engage in lengthy philosophical discussions. She has been considering "ending things," but has not told him yet. Several weeks later, he takes her to meet his parents on their remote farm. They met in a pub during a college trivia night, and Jake gave her his phone number by writing it on a piece of paper and slipping it into her bag. The story is narrated by Jake's unnamed girlfriend of only a few months.
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