Chapter 44

Chapter 44: One, Two, Three
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Book #4	Book 4
Chapter	8
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Date posted	Apr 8, 2025
Word count	40,800
Points of view	Diana, Elle, Bethany, Melissa, Shahida, Raph, Aunt Bea, Valérie, Steph, Monica, Tabitha, Frankie, Adam, Christine, Cora
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Chapter 44: One, Two, Three is the eighth chapter of the fourth book of the series, and forty-fourth chapter overall.

The title comes from the initial scene where Diana is being taught by Chiamaka how to waltz.

The chapter contains 31 scenes covering nearly a week from Saturday 18 to Thursday 23, January 2020.

Plot

Diana gets a dancing lesson from Chiamaka

Elle is in a confessional mood with Cally and discusses washouts

Bethany has a totally normal horny breakfast

Melissa arrives from Manchester

Shahida plans to meet Melissa

Raph is inquisitive at joining Steph’s yoga class

Melissa Pumpkin-Spice meets old graduates, and Tabby has to lower her expectations about meeting Jenny

Beatrice entertains Valérie

Valérie is a bomb, and her fuse has been lit

Elle gives a briefing in the first basement

Steph meets new sponsors and feels a little clucky?

Beth is overjoyed by the sniff of freedom restored and they arrive upstairs just as…

Steph has an accident upon reaching the dining hall, and meets Thea

Monica analyses a cheeseburger with Isla before admiring Diana’s waltz

Melissa worries over Jenny and struggles to have a normal reaction

Valérie leads a memorial service for the victims of Stenordale at a makeshift chapel

Tabitha mulls over an argument about children with Levi

Steph asks Pippa about eyeliner

Shahida goes out to dinner with the gang, plus Abby and Jane

Monica and Diana are driven by Isla to the meeting with Elle

Diana and Trevor catch up, until Elle jumpscares her with a picture of Grandmother

Monica observes Diana’s debrief

Diana arrives back, and Chia demands a slice of pizza from Monica

Frankie is under house arrest

Bethany Erin [cough] sits with her near-naked girlfriend and deals with her brainworms, also known as the game Who Is More Of A Girl

Raph considers the game Fuck It Let’s Go and begins thinking about names and pronouns, maybe

Adam thinks about his desecration

Elle survives an assassination attempt

Christine discovers Melissa is missing

Melissa, wrecking ball, breaks the rules by turning up unnanounced at Jenny’s home, and presumably Russ is also there

Cora, a Dorley washout turned assassins, is informed by her handler Haley that she has been activated

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