Go Ask Alice Diary Number Two

Alice comes home and is excited to renew her life with her family. Alice loses conciousnes and thinks is either a flashback or a esquizofrenic episode. Alice is happy with her family and with herself, except for her social isolation: she can't hang out with drug users, and straight kids don't want her around. Alice's grandfather dies in a coma from a stroke. She agonizes over the thought of worms and maggots eating his dead body underground. Someone plants a joint in her purse, and she leaves school. Her father consoles her, and gets her permission to study at the university library.

Alice meets a freshman at the university library, Joel; his father is dead, his mother is a factory worker, and he works as a janitor to pay for school. He and Alice get to know each other better. She fantasizes about marrying him. At school all want to make her use drugs, as the kids bother Alice and her family. Alice's grandmother dies. After the funeral, Joel has a long talk with her about death that makes her feel better, and they kiss. She opens up to Joel about some of her past, and he is kind and supportive.

She is unsure how she has ended up in a hospital and can only think of the worms she thinks are eating her alive. She has chewed her fingers to the bone, and clawed up her face and body. Her father says that someone dosed with LSD the chocolate-covered peanuts Alice was eating while she was baby-sitting. Alice finds out she is being sent to an insane asylum. Her father tells her that when her case was brought before a juvenile court and that Jan and another girl testified that Alice had still been on drugs and was selling them. Alice is put at the State Mental Hospital. She is frightened, she meets a little 13 year old girl, Babbie, a prostitute and drug user with a history of sexual abuse.

Life in the asylum drains Alice. A visit from her parents brings a letter from Joel. Her father tells her that Jan has retracted her statement,