53 pages • 1 hour read
Kiley ReidCome and Get It
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Chapters 26-31Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 26 Summary
Josh asks Millie to help Peyton and Tyler move out of Belgrade. When Millie hears their parents outside the suite, she freezes, unable to leave her room. She waits until she hears Colette approaching with the move-in cart. Colette sees how anxious Millie is to face the parents. She tells Millie to stay in her room while she takes care of it. Millie goes to her room and listens as Colette deftly charms the parents, tying her hair and putting on a faux Southern accent.
After the parents leave, Colette goes back to Millie to check on her. Agatha’s text asking to talk comes in on Millie’s phone, along with an email from Aimee asking to meet the following Monday. Colette offers to cover Millie’s shift while she goes to see Agatha.
Chapter 27 Summary
Agatha and Millie meet at a grocery parking lot. Millie immediately notices that Agatha is preparing to leave town. Agatha explains that she has resigned. They each struggle to express their feelings and regrets but fail to say anything definitive. Finally, Agatha takes out an envelope and asks Millie what the down payment on her house is.
Chapter 28 Summary
Millie is shocked by Agatha’s offer to cover the down payment on her house. Agatha regretfully explains the offer is an apology. Millie navigates her complicated feelings for Agatha and then asks if the apology extends to the Teen Vogue article. She echoes many of Colette’s complaints about her portrayal in the piece before calling Agatha out on not being open with her.
Agatha asks her if she’s in any trouble. Millie shares that Tyler is trying to get her fired. Agatha encourages her to not be so nice to everyone. Millie lets Agatha’s imminent departure sink in before the two assure each other that they enjoyed their time together.
Chapter 29 Summary
On her way out of Fayetteville, Agatha sees Tyler at a coffee shop. She confronts Tyler about trying to get Millie fired, which Tyler denies. Agatha tries to get Tyler to stop antagonizing Millie, which causes Tyler to realize the nature of their relationship. Tyler tries to get $1,500 out of Agatha in exchange for telling Aimee the truth. Agatha drives Tyler to the bank and cashes out the amount. Before she gives the money over, she forces Tyler to call Aimee on the spot.
Before they part ways, Tyler wonders why Agatha excluded her from the Teen Vogue interviews. She also explains that the girls would have been fine with Agatha asking to observe them instead of spying on them outright.
Chapter 30 Summary
Millie meets with Aimee, who clears her for the trouble with Tyler. Aimee then tells her that Joanie will be promoted to resident director instead to accommodate Peyton when she returns to Belgrade for her senior year. She offers to place Millie in another dormitory when a space opens up. Aimee also indicates that they will do check-ins together moving forward rather than letting Millie do check-ins with Josh. On the bright side, Aimee extends the offer to sell the house to Millie but acknowledges the timing is bad with the unexpected shift in Millie’s plans. Millie accepts the offer. Aimee brings up Agatha’s resignation and euphemistically talks about maintaining boundaries between her personal and professional life. Millie reassures her that she’s fine.
Later that night, Ryland, Colette, and Millie hang out in Peyton and Tyler’s empty double room. They learn that Josh has a girlfriend. Millie invites Colette over to her new house the following day. She contrasts the way she reacted to Agatha’s rejection of Kennedy with how she would’ve reacted as a more competent RA, checking in on Kennedy afterward. She reflects on how the events of the past semester have impacted her just as Colette senses that someone must have died in the house.
Chapter 31 Summary
Kennedy continues recovering by herself at the hospital, her mother having been delayed by a snowstorm. When her mother does arrive, she explains that she reached out to the mom of Kennedy’s old friend who had stopped speaking to her after Sadie’s death.
Nichelle moves Kennedy’s belongings out of Belgrade just before Kennedy is discharged. On the drive back home, Kennedy asks Nichelle for her phone back. She is surprised to see how many people have texted her their best wishes, including old friends from Iowa. She notices that no one brought up Peyton in any of their messages, making it seem like she hadn’t been involved. Under the assumption that Kennedy had intentionally harmed herself, Nichelle tells her not to do it again. Kennedy agrees. Nichelle tells her that they can consult a plastic surgeon about her scar, but Kennedy declines. They stop at a Target, where Kennedy “[feels] like she [is] home” (384), and decide to look around.
Chapters 26-31 Analysis
The novel concludes with its central characters confronting the messy Complexities of New Adulthood. Millie realizes that the only way to continue doing her job competently is to invest less effort into it. Kennedy realizes that just because people disagree with her past decisions doesn’t mean they won’t send their best wishes to her. Agatha understands that the people she has been writing about are necessarily flawed because they are still working out how to be themselves in the world. Privilege has little to do with it, and she understands this as someone with privilege.
Colette’s comment about someone dying at Millie’s house is both an intuitive reading into the history of the house and subtext for Millie’s character development. She has allowed the part of herself that was too nice to residents to die to look after the part of herself that needs attention and approval. By seeking this out from her employers rather than her friends, she gravely Crosses Personal and Professional Boundaries, worsening her own situation without realizing it.
Millie’s realizations at the end of the novel echo classic tropes of the varsity novel genre. Varsity novels often show their characters realizing the flawed way in which they’ve chosen to approach the world. These revelations are often embarrassing to the characters as they realize the unintended consequences of their actions. Though Millie believed that it was easier to keep things secret because she was afraid of how Colette might judge her, that act of secrecy becomes the very thing that frustrates Colette. Millie criticizes the same secrecy in Agatha when she confronts her during their last encounter, which is why she echoes many of Colette’s frustrations. On her end, Agatha gives Millie advice that resonates with Colette’s in Chapter 22: She tells Millie not to be so nice to everyone and not to demand or feel entitled to niceness because it will bring her closer to the things she wants. Nevertheless, Millie and Colette’s friendship is shown to be stronger than the trials they go through as Colette finds an opportunity to take charge as a resident assistant in Millie’s place.
The conclusion of Kennedy’s arc illustrates that the Complexities of Adulthood have no neat resolution. Though she leaves Fayetteville without having formed any lasting friendships, she realizes that people from her past still care for her. It is only then that she realizes that what had happened to her was something “she’d done to herself” (383). The truth of Peyton’s involvement is never invoked in relation to the incident, and indeed, Peyton seems to fully escape any responsibility for her retaliation against Kennedy. However, that no longer seems to matter to Kennedy. On one hand, she has the attention she wants. On the other, she doesn’t seem fully satisfied by it. The only time she feels any sense of closure is when she and Nichelle reach Target, a place she identifies with home. This shows how her set habits—going to the store and shopping for comfort—bring her more warmth than Belgrade ever did. By depicting Kennedy drawing comfort from her mother and the habits of her youth as she emerges from a complex interpersonal conflict, the novel underscores that the journey to adulthood is neither linear nor binary.
