Later, Adam finds Juliette crying in the shower because “everything is falling apart.”

I’m sorry, what part of “I’m a super indestructible badass and can literally tear this place apart and leave in a smoking ruins” falls under the heading of ‘bad’?  You don’t even like this place, you want to escape, and you have superstrength that will help you escape and you just sit and cry about that?

FUCKING WHY?

Nope, she’s just going to weep and call herself a monster until Adam makes some grand declaration of love and they make out.

Yeah, because that’s so fucking important right now.

God, you’re such a mess, book.

They act mooshy and moopy for a while and talk about Juliette not forgetting who she really is.  That would have more weight if we had any sense of her in the first place.  It’s not like she’s changed since she got in here, because she was never anything besides a collection of bad poetry and thesaurus abuse to begin with.

An alarm goes off in the middle of yet another makeout session, telling all soldiers to head to the quadrant.  Warner shows up and scolds Adam for not running off fast enough.  After Adam runs off, Warner gets all up in Juliette’s space like he’s going to…assault her?  He tears her dress (that already had a tear in it, it just made it wider) and pins her up against a wall and it’s really fucking creepy, but all the time he’s talking about other stuff like he’s been doing this whole book.

Being as he’s all pressed up against her, he feels her notebook in her pocket and gets mad about it.  Then Adam shows up again and points a gun at his head.  Adam and Juliette decide to make a run for it now, because ya know, cat’s out of the bag with the whole threatening thing.

Oh yeah, turns out they had two duffle bags packed and ready to go.  Packed with what?

“I can assure you, soldier, your triumph will be short-lived. You may as well kill me now, because when I find you, I will thoroughly enjoy destroying every bone in your body.

Uh, yeah, that’s a good point, why are you not shooting him?  Also, shooting him means he can’t tell everyone what happened and set the search parties on the right course.  If they shot him, everyone else might assume that Juliette did it alone and miss the fact that Adam is gone until after they have a head start.  They’d spend time looking through the building trying to find a lone girl who doesn’t know where to go.

Instead they sit around and fucking debate with him about whether Adam or Warner likes her more.

FUCKING PRIORITIES, BOOK, WHY ARE YOU SUCH A MESS?

They just keep on talking and it’s all about how Warner wants her to stay and admit she’s a monster because the world hurt her and she should want to hurt it back and also he says that Adam doesn’t really love her and WHY ARE THEY STILL LISTENING TO THIS GUY?  SHE’S ACTUALLY HESITATING, EVEN AFTER THAT WHOLE CONVERSATIN ABOUT HOW WARNER IS FUCKED UP WHY ARE THEY NOT JUST SHOOTING HIM AND RUNNING?

Juliette gets the bright idea to jump out the window, even though they’re 15 stories up.  She also figures that there is no Code Seven, which doesn’t mean much, because what the fuck is a Code Seven anyway?  She asks why he would call out a false alarm, but that happens all the time, maybe Code Seven is “there’s a fire.”  Fire drills are a thing.

“Why don’t you ask yourself why you’re trusting your life to someone who can’t even differentiate between a real and an imaginary threat?”

…where did that come from?  Because Adam actually left, even though it was a drill?  THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DO IN A DRILL, IT’S THE REASON DRILLS EXIST, IT’S NOT A POINT TOWARDS HIM NOT BEING ABLE TO TELL FICTION FROM REALITY, WTF?

They plan to climb out the window instead and Warner still hasn’t been shot so he’s yelling at them the whole time.

Everyone’s outside because of the Code Seven drill, why aren’t they just running the normal way?  The window option was brought up randomly and there’s no reason given for why it’s even necessary.

In the course of their “I’ll go first and then help you” discussion he realizes that Adam can touch Juliette, so he starts going “Whaaaaa, really?” over that but they ignore him.

Still not clear on why they haven’t SHOT HIM, COME ON, YOU’VE GOT TWO GUNS POINTED AT HIM, DO IT, THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE GOOD REASON GIVEN FOR WHY HE’S STILL UNSHOT.  THEY’VE SUGGESTED DOING IT AND THEN JUST FAIL TO WITHOUT GIVING A REASON.

I don’t care if they leave him alive.  Shooting people is hard.  But they’re not even trying and failing, or deciding not to, they’re just completely ignoring that option.

Juliette jumps out the window and Warner makes a lunge for her, actually touches her leg, and it doesn’t trigger her powers, but she hopes he didn’t realize that since she was in the process of jumping out at the time.

I really can’t even tell you how little I care about that.  I don’t care about anything.  This whole book is so slow and random and pointless that I don’t care why Adam and Warner can touch her.  I know the answer will just be “the author said so.”