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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 21-25Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 21 Summary
Agatha overhears the emergency unfolding from Millie’s room. Just as Casey dials 911, calling for an adult to help, Agatha steps out of the room to check on Millie. Casey recognizes her and brings her over to the suite. Agatha helps to stop Kennedy’s bleeding, and Casey reports an attempted murder-suicide to the police. When Kennedy opens her eyes, she is surprised to see Agatha Paul in her room. She passes out, and Agatha sees her book nearby.
Chapter 22 Summary
Shortly after the paramedics take Kennedy and Peyton to the hospital, Josh debriefs Millie on the incident. Colette notices that something is suspicious with Millie. When she realizes that Agatha isn’t wearing a bra, she and Ryland deduce that Agatha and Millie were having sex.
Aimee arrives and asks Millie questions that reveal her lack of awareness over what had been happening in the suite. She asks whether Millie was paid to switch Kennedy and Tyler’s room placements, adding that Tyler claimed to have known about Kennedy’s mental health issues from the start. Millie explains how the arrangement actually occurred. When Aimee asks about Agatha’s presence, Millie answers that she was there for research, which prompts Aimee to recall that Agatha’s research had supposedly been about weddings.
Later, when Millie meets up with Ryland and Colette, Colette shows Millie Agatha’s Teen Vogue profiles, having searched Agatha online. Millie is shocked to see her finances printed out on the internet, as well as her quotes, some of which have been misrepresented in the piece. She pretends to have known about it anyway. Colette expresses how offended she feels that Millie has kept secrets from her. She is also annoyed about the way Millie talks about her work in the interview. She accuses Millie of not being gay but of being attracted to Agatha for her sexuality and authority. She finally refutes Millie’s claim of consenting to the interview and argues that Millie is so loyal to her aspirations that she chooses not to see that she is being used.
Chapter 23 Summary
Robin visits Agatha in Fayetteville when Agatha tells her what happened at Belgrade. After Agatha explains everything in detail over dinner, they return to Agatha’s house, where Robin pulls her into bed.
Chapter 24 Summary
Millie goes to the hospital to visit Peyton and Kennedy. Just before she reaches Peyton’s room, she overhears Peyton’s parents inside, which stops her from entering. Peyton talks about Kennedy’s dirty habits without explicitly relating them to her injury. Peyton’s mother encourages her to move to the Black sorority house to avoid any further trouble. Just then, Tyler arrives and connects with Peyton’s parents. She indicates that she might move to a sorority house as well so she can get a dog.
Joanie sees Millie on her way to visit Peyton, carrying a bag of Kennedy’s belongings. Millie asks her to give the flowers she had bought for Peyton and offers to bring Kennedy’s things to her. Millie momentarily breaks down when she thinks about her role in the incident. Joanie prays over her and encourages her to talk to Tyler to resolve their issues. Millie is quietly infuriated by the influence Tyler holds over Joanie, but she also realizes that maybe Joanie deserves the resident director position more than she does.
Millie heads over to Kennedy’s room, and Kennedy asks her about giving Peyton the idea to leave the dishes in her room. Millie feigns obliviousness, and Kennedy dismisses it. Kennedy then confides that she was rejected from Agatha Paul’s class and that she hallucinated seeing Agatha there during the incident. Millie has sobering thoughts about her and Kennedy’s relationships with Agatha, but she doesn’t tell Kennedy that Agatha was actually there. Kennedy finally tells Millie that she liked her as an RA, and when Millie leaves the hospital, she calls her mother to cry.
Chapter 25 Summary
Aimee calls Agatha to check on her. Agatha offers to visit Peyton and Kennedy at the hospital. She tells Robin about her plan but asks her not to come along. Curious to know why, Robin asks Agatha if she is seeing anyone. Agatha downplays her relationship with Millie as something casual but explains that it would hurt Millie’s feelings if Robin showed up with her. Because the incident happened at a dormitory, Robin realizes that Agatha is seeing an undergraduate student. She calls Agatha out on the illicit, exploitative nature of the relationship, but Agatha tries to defend herself. Robin then realizes that Agatha is dating the girl she wrote about in her profile. Agatha feels some satisfaction at knowing that Robin read her work.
Agatha suggests she and Robin take a break before leaving for the hospital. Kennedy is asleep when she visits, so she leaves a bouquet of flowers behind. When Agatha returns to her house, Robin is gone. Agatha packs her things and texts Millie to ask if they can talk.
Chapters 21-25 Analysis
When Aimee debriefs Millie over the incident with Peyton and Kennedy, she exposes an irony about Millie’s role as a resident assistant. Though Millie has been eavesdropping on the girls over several chapters and is knowledgeable enough about their behaviors that she can answer Agatha’s contextual questions, she doesn’t know any of them well enough to intervene as an effective resident assistant. Moreover, her instincts result in critical errors of judgment. She learns that it was a mistake to assume that Peyton was suffering an allergic reaction that required Millie to dispense her EpiPen. She realizes that she should have seen the signs of a conflict all along and that the conflict exacerbated Kennedy’s mental state. Ultimately, she is no closer to the girls than Agatha or her readers are.
These chapters serve as Millie’s and Agatha’s moral awakenings as both are subjected to confrontations by their most intimate friends. Colette criticizes Millie for feeling so indebted to the systems that allow her to earn and save money that she is unable to see when that system is exploiting her. Her complaint recalls Millie’s frustrations in Chapter 14 when Millie expressed her wish for residents to be decent to her in return. Colette blames her constant need to overperform, implying that she doesn’t have to be as nice as she wants her residents to be. This, Colette argues, is how the system exploits her labor, just as Agatha is exploiting her experience for cultural and monetary gain. Even though Millie argues that she told Agatha everything in private, Agatha publicized it all, erasing Personal and Professional Boundaries. On her part, Agatha is criticized for not recognizing the issues in her romantic relationship. She knows that Robin can’t call her out on the way she’s exploited Millie and the other residents for their words, but she feels sick knowing that Robin recognizes Millie from her work. In her own way, Agatha comes to realize her errors.
Millie understands her flaws better in light of her limitations, and her character arc highlights The Complexities of New Adulthood. When she tries to visit Peyton, she realizes that she can’t face her in front of her parents. When Kennedy asks her if she had anything to do with Peyton putting the dishes in her bed, she can’t bring herself to answer. When Kennedy brings up her personal relationship with Agatha and her work, Millie realizes that any sense of private access she has to Agatha is illusory. She can’t reconcile that someone else likes Agatha in a way that she can’t match. She recognizes that Agatha’s personal agency is precisely what enabled her to cross boundaries the way that she did, fueling complex feelings about Agatha that underscore the thematic relationship between coming of age and navigating boundaries.
