Lucky receives a voicemail from Bonnie, who has traveled to New York and invites Lucky to join her there. Since Lucky is still angry with Avery and no longer wants to be in London, she books a flight to New York for the following day. Haunted by the memory of the man referring to her as “Nicky’s baby,” Lucky tracks down the address for the club where she was partying and returns there. On the way, she has flashbacks to being sexually assaulted when she first began her modeling career. Lucky knows that because of the incident in Paris, her modeling career is likely over, but she doesn’t care. When she gets to the club, Lucky finds the bouncer, but he says he doesn’t know anyone named Nicky. He expresses disdain for the club scene, saying, “[A]ll the sex and booze and coke and shit […] it’s people who have fallen out of love with life trying to get back to how they used to feel” (162).

Upset not to get an answer, Lucky begins drinking heavily; she ends up meeting Troll Doll (the friend she had been partying with), and the two women have sex, although Lucky barely knows what she is doing.