When America gets back to the palace, everyone is in a tizzy.  She goes to the Misogyny Room and sees that all of the Selection girls are back, because Maxon has announced that he’s ready to make his final decision.  He’s ‘send home’ Celeste and Elise, so it’s between Kriss and America, tho of course…

We breeze through the funeral in summary and skip to the family coping at home afterwards.  America tries to distract her sister by playing dress-up with Lucy, which works well.  Aspen comes by and chitchats with America, at which point America finally fulfils her promise to mention Anne to him.  Aspen instead wants to talk…

America mopes through several pages of stuff, including a Christmas Eve party, but she doesn’t want to participate because of the whole “make caste-support commercials or go home” thing. But as soon as Maxon shows up at her door, all of her moping turns right on over to being about how she has to share…

After the events of last chapter, they all file out of the room, and America gets in a fight with Elise, because Elise keeps being all sensible and pointing out that you can’t just flip the table in a fit of pique and expect that to fix everything.  America keeps screaming that what they were…

The next day, Maxon comes to her room acting all nervous and saying he wants to explain before she gets the wrong idea from someone else.  He then proceeds to absolutely fail to explain and instead rambles on confusing everyone.  I hate, hate, HATE this trope in fiction, as it’s often just used as a…