The teens go on a road trip to Seattle where they plan to stay with Margot's mom. In the meantime, Mr. Bratt writes a fictionalized version of the happenings in Port Lawrence and will to go to great lengths to find the perfect ending.
In the aftermath of Slappy's fall, Margot and the other teens go to Seattle to visit her mother, and Margot and Lucas have relationship issues. The parents have a celebratory get-together, and Nathan fictionalizes the whole thing but his publisher wants him to provide a twist ending.—Gislef