Lynette, bleeding from her altercation with Jed, snaps out of her confusion and asks where Jed is. Ryan reveals Lynette’s traumatic incident: three years ago, Lynette and her boyfriend were beaten almost to death by noughts because they were an interracial couple. Meggie is out of the house, and Ryan’s attempts to stop the fight fail until he slaps Jude, shocking everyone. Callum is upset, but when Sephy touches his face, they genuinely apologize to each other.Ĭallum returns home to find Jude yelling at Lynette-for the first time, Lynette is yelling back. When Callum asks, Sephy names the three girls who beat her up. He evades her questions, and she’s annoyed that he won’t just say what he wants to say. He doesn’t want to hate Sephy, so he pushes his rage down deep.Ĭontinuing their conversation on the beach, Sephy asks if Callum is remembering the train journey. His memory of the day is permanently colored by his treatment by the police. Callum tries to not hold Sephy responsible for how all Crosses treat all noughts, but it doesn’t really work. The police treat her respectfully, not even looking at her ID when she offers it. Sephy buys first-class tickets for them, but Callum is ID’d and interrogated by police officers, who insult him and are about to kick him off the train before Sephy intervenes.

Callum is always unsure whether Sephy will actually show up Sephy is annoyed that Callum never looks happy to see her.

Sephy and Callum each recount the train journey to Celebration Park earlier that year. She says that it was a lovely day, but Callum’s memory is slightly different. Callum asks her what she remembers about the last time they went, during the summer. They meet on their private beach that evening, and Sephy apologizes for missing their picnic at Celebration Park.

Sephy is angry that Callum didn’t visit her, then shocked to learn that he did visit every day, he just wasn’t allowed through the gate. Paxton, that she can’t sit next to him because she was told not to sit with noughts. When Sephy returns to school five days later, she joins Callum’s Math class (his favorite subject), but she tells the teacher, Mrs. Sephy’s older sister, Minerva, tries to get her to share who hurt her, but Sephy refuses-the two have a tense relationship, and Sephy calls her “Minnie” to bother her. Hadley sends Callum away, blames him for Sephy’s injuries, and bans him from the property. He runs to her house, where Sarah Pike, Jasmine’s nought secretary, confirms that Sephy was hurt. After an infuriating school day of hearing about how Crosses are superior, Callum learns from Shania that Sephy was beaten up.

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