Pictures of You

Content Warning: This section of the guide contains discussion of emotional abuse, suicidal ideation, and death.

In talking with Drew and Bree, Evie realizes there are entire text message histories deleted from her phone. The night Drew’s mother died, Evie sent Bree a text saying she thinks she made a terrible mistake. She asks Drew about his dad, and he says it’s messy. She asks about their happiest memory, and he says it was the bioluminescence in Jervis Bay. She wonders why, if she was supposed to be crazy about Oliver, she feels such an energy with Drew. Then she remembers that he kissed her.

Drew is overwhelmed with emotion when Evie kisses him, a kiss of “brand-new passion colliding with recognition” (302). It’s a kiss without Oliver’s shadow over her life, and Drew fears he is falling even harder than he did the first time.

Evie is convinced that, despite what Drew said, their past kiss meant something. She thinks whatever was between them in the past must have been special, and the connection between them now is about their future: “It’s as if the loss of the last thirteen years doesn’t matter at all, and we could just start right here, on this deck at sunrise” (305).