Rocky flashes back to a summer when Jamie was five and Willa was nearly two. After an ultrasound, Nick drove her to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription the doctor had called in. Rocky was still crying intermittently, and Nick kept his arm around her waist for support.

At the pickup window, the pharmacist mentioned that Rocky had taken misoprostol before, in September of the previous year. Rocky reflexively denied it, insisting it must be a computer error, and signed for the medication. Nick was beside her, but she couldn't tell whether he had registered the exchange.

In the car, Nick remarked offhandedly that it was weird the pharmacy didn't keep better records. Rocky nodded, swallowed the pills with leftover coffee, and waited for the medication to take effect—revealing she had concealed an earlier pregnancy loss or abortion from Nick, a long-held secret surfacing through this memory.