"Patrick was flat on his back that week. Mono. Hallie definitely had it too—Patrick swore she was Patient 0—but she had it like a literary consumptive: hectic with fever, aching for what life she could grasp before illness took her out. So, she dropped in on Natalie Phelps's post-midterms house party." Hallie gets spes phthisica, hangs out with her nemesis, and sees That Painting.