Prep

In the spring of Lee’s freshman year, she meets Conchita Maxwell while playing lacrosse. Lee wears her dad’s Bob Dylan t-shirt with the words “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” and Conchita has to tell Lee about Dylan. Conchita’s mom is Mexican, and her Dad is “American.” She doesn’t like much about Ault, but Lee says she likes it, which makes Conchita suspicious of her. She thinks Lee is thoughtful, and a thoughtful person must have issues with Ault.

At a festive roll call, Adam Rabinovitz, a gregarious senior whose penis might have been a part of a plaster body-part art display in the fall, announces that Assassin will start tomorrow. The rules for Assassin are as follows: Orange stickers and a name are put into each student’s mailbox. The name is their target, and they have to kill them by putting a sticker on them without being seen; if someone sees them, they must wait 24 hours before trying to kill them again. Once they eradicate their target, the killer gets their victim’s target and their stickers.

Conchita invites Lee to her large room, which looks like a TV set. Conchita says she has asthma, so Ault lets her have a phone in her room in case she has an asthma attack.