Eleanor
- Eleanor's sitting on the steps outside school, going through a mental checklist trying to figure out how she can avoid riding the bus again.
- We find out she's just moved, her mom doesn't have a car, and for some reason she can't imagine calling her dad.
- She imagines that all of the kids on the bus are devil spawn, because they hated Eleanor immediately—"Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life" (2.9).
- Eleanor's mom has offered that someone named Richie will take her, because she told him Eleanor's "ready to be a part of [their] family" (2.20), but Eleanor seems determined to avoid that at all costs.