The party gets raided before Lena can get her out, but Alex saves her from an attack dog and hides with her in a shed outside. When she sees him at a party, they agree to meet up at a beach. When Lena gets there, Alex and she race to the buoys where Alex confesses that her suspicions were right: he is an Invalid and his procedure scar is fake.Īlthough she is scared at first and runs away, Lena and Alex end up seeing each other again after Lena goes to a party to warn Hana about a raid. She makes it to Back Cove that night, but does not see Alex. The first time Alex hints that he wants to meet her at Back Cove. Alex then persuades Lena to meet up with him on several occasions. Alex introduces himself and Lena sees a three pronged scar behind his ear (a sign that he got the cure) before learning that he is nineteen. Lena later runs into Alex again when she is out jogging with Hana and they trespass on government property. When she tries to inform someone of his presence, he disappears. Lena catches her first glimpse of Alex Sheathes, a boy who laughs and winks at her, leading her to believe he is an Invalid.

Just as everything seems to be going downhill, a stampede of cows interrupts the evaluations as a protest of the cure. When asked what her favorite book is, she says Romeo and Juliet because it's about sacrifice and beauty and then answers that her favorite color is gray instead of a safe color like blue or green. Upon her first interview, Lena starts to panic, in part because she remembers her mother's apparent suicide, and as a result her answers are a little bit out of the ordinary. She enters the interview procedure alongside her best friend Hana Tate expecting an average score which would secure her a reasonable match and allow her to proceed to college. Even on the day of her evaluation, Lena works on her interview procedure with her aunt Carol. Lena Haloway starts off Delirium counting down the days to her cure. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.īut with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Thyoy didn’t understand that once love - the deliria - blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold.

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