Sharp Objects

Camille goes over to Richard’s apartment with a bottle of bourbon, thinking “[b]ear gifts if you can’t bear anything else. I’d stopped wearing skirts. Makes my legs too accessible to someone prone to touching. If he was anymore” (170). They drink and Richard tries to touch her breasts and legs, but she tells him that she likes it with her clothes on. She pulls her pants down “just a little bit, kept my stomach covered with my shirt, kept him distracted with well-placed kisses. Then I guided him into me and we fucked, fully clothed” (172). Afterwards, after Camille’s prying, Richard tells her that he thinks John Keene is the killer. Camille in turn admits that Ann bit her mother’s wrist. They have sex again before Camille leaves.

Camille goes to Garrett Park feeling “sticky and stupid. I couldn’t decide if I’d been mistreated. By Richard, by those boys who took my virginity, by anyone. I was never really on my side in an argument” (173). Amma and her friends show up with two older boys, and Amma talks Camille into coming with them. Camille drinks with them, and Amma offers her an OxyContin pill saying it “Makes you feel real good” (175).