We have changed our privacy policy. In addition, we use cookies on our website for various purposes. By continuing on our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can learn about our practices by reading our privacy policy.

Why We Broke Up Chapter 15 Summary

  • Within the breakup box, there is a toy truck. Min is riding in a real truck, with Al, still writing her letter to Ed, while holding the toy truck in her hand.
  • Flashback to the post-game party—it's a bonfire. Min and Ed ride there in someone's car.
  • Ed leaves Min to go find beer. She isn't sure what to do with herself, so, drawn to the fire, she throws in her ticket to the game.
  • Min's revelry is broken by Jillian Beach, Ed's ex-girlfriend. She's with another girl who makes a joke about Min being a virgin. Min jokes right back, holding her own against the mean girls.
  • Jillian's friend, mean girl number two, is Annette. Annette quickly softens and apologizes for Jillian, who is really drunk.
  • And bitter. Jillian and Ed only broke up last week, and Jillian doesn't like that Min came to the party.
  • Jillian leaves and Annette apologizes to Min a second time. She should probably apologize for the rest of the book, that's how rude Jillian was.
  • Min is feeling insecure. Annette makes small talk and Min starts to feel better. It works for a few minutes, until Annette brings up the fact that she, too, is Ed's ex-girlfriend.
  • Whoops, Min had forgotten that Annette and Ed used to go out. She apologizes.
  • Annette says it's no big deal because she and Ed are still good friends.
  • Min gets lost in her thoughts for a minute. She thinks about how weird it is that someday, she will also be Ed's ex-girlfriend. She thinks about her ex-boyfriend, Joe, and how they never talk anymore even though they said they'd stay friends. She also thinks about how she used to think of Ed as a hero, and now he's her boyfriend. Weird.
  • Ed has returned on the arm of drunk Jillian. Oh dear…
  • Annette dutifully drags Jillian away, but not before Jillian insults Min a few more times. It's really uncomfortable.
  • Ed's sorry, and Min's mad—but not for long.
  • Ed has a surprise for Min: It's a toy truck. Yes, the one from the breakup box.
  • He used to lose his own toy trucks when he played here as a child, so now he always looks for them at the bonfires. Only Min could possibly understand this tale of woe.
  • Min's charmed enough to make out with Ed for a while. In the back of her mind, she's willing the bonfire to be over already. She's already looking forward to their plans for tomorrow, a trip to Tip Top Goods.
  • Ed has an idea: He takes Min to Steve's car to fool around.
  • Remembering their time in Steve's car, Min feels conflicted. On one hand, she thinks it was disgusting and clichéd, but on the other, she thinks it was beautiful.