Megan

Chapter 3

Megan / Meg

Texts Allie to arrange a brunch pickup, prompting Allie to finally leave the bedroom and prepare to depart for campus.

ALLIE

Megan

She remains one of Allie's close friends, consistently filling conversational lulls with jokes and humor whenever topics grow too serious.

Reveals to Allie that she is dating Trevor, a thirty-seven-year-old pediatric surgeon with a five-year-old daughter, and expresses fear about meeting his child and becoming a stepmother. She ultimately agrees to go to the bar to escape her partner's early bedtimes.

Chapter 11 - ALLIE

Megan

Shares frustration over a pretentious playwright named Slade during group conversation. Later enthusiastically drags Allie to dance to Pink’s anthem, successfully turning their booth into a space for female camaraderie and drawing a crowd of women to the floor.

Chapter 12 - ALLIE

Megan

Briefly accompanies Allie back to campus before the narrative shifts entirely to Allie's private experience.

Chapter 19 - ALLIE

Megan

Appears in Allie’s thoughts as insisting on a six-month no-contact period after breakups and continuing to make excuses regarding her relationship with a thirty-seven-year-old doctor.

Chapter 30 - DEAN

Megan

Referenced by Allie recalling a past conversation where she shared a statistic about eighty percent of grieving individuals admitting to having sex around the time of a funeral.

Chapter 31 - ALLIE

Megan

Sits in the second row at the theater, joining the standing ovation for Allie’s performance.