Life goes on with Amanda still living at Carter's house. They have some arguments, but not many, as by the time he gets home, she's already asleep. Time passes until Carter's birthday arrives. Late in the morning, after finishing some tasks, Amanda helps Chandra decorate with twinkling lights.
"Want me to go up and hang it for you?" Seeing that Chandra couldn't hang the lights on the tree, Amanda offered to help. Chandra, hearing this, told Amanda, who was holding the aluminum ladder she was standing on.
"How can you go up? You're pregnant, remember?"
"Yes." She hadn't forgotten; she just thought it wasn't very high, and her belly wasn't big yet, so Amanda didn't see it as dangerous. However, Chandra thought differently.
Chandra tried to wrap the lights around the tree again until she
