6) Describe the Sadie Hawkins dance. What happens during and after?

Charlie and Mary Elizabeth go on their first date at the Sadie Hawkins dance, and Charlie learns a lot about Mary Elizabeth's hopes, dreams, future plans, and complaints. She talks for almost the entire time, but at the end of the date she tells Charlie that he is the most sensitive boy she has every met. It also turns out that Sam and Craig had a big fight because Craig decided not to go to the dance. After Charlie drops Mary Elizabeth off at her house, he finds his sister crying in the basement. He tries to talk to her and make her feel better, but these efforts only result in her yelling, "CHARLIE! SHUT UP! OKAY?! JUST SHUT UP!" (274) She starts crying even harder, and she eventually tells him that she is pregnant. She had tried to tell her boyfriend, but he had denied that it was his baby and broke up with her right at the dance. His sister does not want anyone else to know about the baby, and this becomes another secret that brings Charlie closer to yet another individual.