Hannah Taylors finally gives in to her desperation and does one of the stupidest things a girl can do to grab her unapproachable long-time crush Jonah Gibbs' attention: spill soda on his white shirt and leave a motherfrigging red blotch on it. Accidentally... on purpose.

"Do you know how pearls are formed, Clara?" I asked. "You snatched me away to give me a science lesson?" "It starts when a foreign object slips between a mollusk and its shell. It keeps rubbing the mollusk the wrong way and irritates the hell out of it." So don't stop.

Mara and Tess were cursed when they were born. One had demonic lips that could take away a life, and one had angelic ones that could save a life, but they don't know who has what curse.