Grown

Enchanted and Shea attend the Will and Willow teen conference. When Enchanted is in the hotel room alone, Korey calls her and tells her to come outside and meet him. Enchanted meets him in his car outside of the hotel, and he declares that he’s “come to save [her] again” (258). He begs her to come back to him, then warns that “[she’s] going to regret it” (259) if she doesn’t. Enchanted refuses and leaves, heading back into the hotel. At the party, Enchanted meets up with Derrick, who encourages her to speak up about what happened. As they talk, a video spreads around the conference of Korey and a girl having sex in Enchanted’s Atlanta bedroom. Enchanted insists “That’s not me!” (263), but no one believes her.

The Will and Willow group chat gossips about the leaked sex tape. Everyone agrees that it’s Enchanted in the video, even though she denies it.

In the aftermath of the sex tape being leaked, Enchanted continues to deny that she’s the girl in the video. Enchanted thinks that “Chasing this dream has turned into a nightmare” (267), and she wonders if she is the one to blame for leading Korey on. She can’t find Gab anywhere, and no one at school seems to remember her. Enchanted thinks she sees Korey’s car at school, and she breaks down and tells Shea about seeing him at the Will and Willow conference. Shea insists that “[they] have to tell Mom” (269), because if Korey Fields is trying to intimidate her, she won’t stand a fighting chance on her own.

In the present day, Enchanted stands in Korey’s penthouse with police and her father at the door. In a daze, she notices the bloody steak knife on the ground and thinks that “[she] should clean up, before anyone comes in here. [Korey will] be so mad” (271). The door swings open, and someone orders her to freeze.

In a police transcript from the past, Enchanted and her mother meet with detectives to “report Korey Fields for assault, battery, rape, and […] stalking” (273). The detectives bring up that Enchanted went with Korey willingly, and she wasn’t forced to commit sexual acts with him. Enchanted and her mother explain that Korey preyed upon her when she was 17, but all evidence on Enchanted’s old phone is gone. The detectives also mention her refusal to ask for help when police came for the welfare check in Atlanta. They imply that Enchanted might have imagined the stalking and the relationship, and Enchanted says they should talk to Gabriela.