Murf followed Anna into her room and tried one more time to talk about Vronsky, but as soon as he brought up his name Anna just covered her ears and said, “Lalalalalalalala!” until he stopped. Before he left, Murf gave Anna his word that he knew unequivocally that Alexia had had nothing to do with the sex tape. Anna didn’t comment and just grabbed his face in her hands and said, “You saved me, Murf. I was lost and you saved me.” As Murf walked back to Beatrice’s he knew two things: one, he was not going to try LSD tomorrow as he’d planned because acid seemed stupid AF, and two, that he wasn’t going to see Anna tomorrow. In the morning, when he woke up between Daler and Rowney, the first thing he thought was, She’s gone.

Later at Coachella, Steven confirmed Murf’s suspicion and told him he woke up to a note from Anna, informing him she needed to get the fuck out of Dodge and was headed to the beach. Unable to sleep, she decided there was no point in leaving the music in the middle of the desert only to face the music in New York, albeit a very different kind. Knowing her home life would never be the same once she confessed her appearance in a sex tape to her parents, she decided she might as well take the rest of the weekend for herself. She told her brother not to worry; she wouldn’t be alone.

Her dad’s younger sister, Jules, lived in Los Angeles and worked in “the business” and on a whim Anna called her and asked if she could come there. Anna didn’t know her aunt Jules very well, because she was estranged from her mother, Anna’s grandmother, and when forced to pick sides, Anna’s dad had sided with his mom. As far as Anna knew, her dad only talked to his sister a few times a year, and Anna had only met her when she was a toddler. Anna and Steven received birthday gifts from their aunt, usually some fancy Hollywood swag or a limited-edition pair of sunglasses, but there was no other substantial contact between them.

Jules didn’t seem fazed to receive Anna’s call at 4 A.M. and texted Anna a pin with her address in Malibu. When Anna arrived, she was amazed to see her aunt had a giant brown Newfoundland that, when it stood on its hind legs at the wooden fence surrounding the house, was as tall as Anna.

“How did I not know you had Newfies, too?” Anna wondered out loud. “Why wouldn’t Dad tell me?”