The Secret Life Of Bees Chapter Two Summary

In Chapter two of The Secret Life Of Bees Rosaleen and Lily are on their way to the police station while the men that Rosaleen poured her spit juice on follow close behind yelling names and making faces at them. When they finally reach the police station the men yell at Rosaleen to apologize and she refuses so the main mad hits her in the head with a flash light and knocks her to the ground. After a few hours in the cell T.Ray comes to get Lily and leaves Rosaleen behind. Once T.Ray and Lily reach the house she goes to her room and sits on her bed and tells her father that she is not scared of him. T.Ray almost hits her and Lily says "My mother will never let you touch me again!" and she runs and sits on her bed. t.Ray lunges at her and gets very close to her face and says that Lily's mother was leaving the day that she killed her and that she was leaving lily behind and that she didn't even like her. Lily sits and thinks about that for a few hours and decided that it would be best for her if she just ran away from home. So she packs her things and goes to bail Rosaleen out of jail. When she gets to the jail the officer said that Rosaleen had to go to the hospital because she fell. So Lily goes to the hospital, even though she was told not to do so, and finds Rosaleen's room. Rosaleen says that two of the men held her arms while the other one hit her repeatedly over the head with the flashlight. When they finally escape from the hospital They hitchhike up to Tirbon S.C. which is the name of a city that was on the picture of the Black Madonna. Once they get there they camp out on a creek bed and Rosaleen and Lily get into a fight and Lily wades across the creek and falls asleep on the other side. She wakes up in the middle of the night and cant find Rosaleen she ends up finding her down the creek naked and floating n her back so she strips down and gets in the creek to apologize.