Aza hates herself for being so self-centered even though she can’t help it she’s so distressed that she gets into a car accident. Aza realizes there’s a lot she doesn’t know about Daisy’s life because she’s always obsessing over germs. Unsurprisingly, Aza and Daisy have a fight. Aza is offended, but the character is how Daisy deals with the difficulty of being Aza’s friend. When Aza visits the blog, she discovers that Daisy based a character on her-a character riddled with anxiety. Aza wants to make it up to her, and she reads Daisy’s online blog to comment on her writing. Meanwhile, Aza feels bad that she doesn’t see Daisy as often anymore. Daisy isn’t happy that Aza has so much control over the $100,000, but she doesn’t say anything.

However, Davis understands her condition, and he’s happy to take their relationship slow. When she kisses Davis, all she can think about are the germs he’s infected her with, and she wants to stop seeing him. He gives her $100,000 in cash: If she keeps seeing him, he’ll know she cares about him and not the money.Īza does care about Davis, but her panic attacks are more frequent than ever. Davis, however, fears that Aza only cares about money. This wasn’t part of the plan, but Aza can’t help feeling attracted to him. Davis is a distraction-first they’re texting all the time, and then they start seeing each other. However, when she forgets to clean it, she gets very distressed. As time passes, Aza doesn’t obsess over her finger as much. Aza and Daisy leave, but Aza and Davis start texting. Before he left, he willed his whole estate to his pet lizard, and Davis fears he’s not in his right senses. When Aza and Daisy visit Davis, they find out that Russell’s company never finished work on sewer lines it was contracted to repair, and that’s when Russell went missing. Aza rejects the idea, but Daisy, who comes from a poorer family and needs to save money for college, wants to try and collect the $100,000 reward that has been posted for information about Pickett’s disappearance. Daisy wants Aza to contact Pickett’s son, Davis ( Russell Davis Pickett, Jr.), who Aza knew years before.

Pickett fled to avoid being arrested for fraud and bribery concerning a sewer project. One day at lunch, as Aza fights to tamp down her fears that her body has been infected by bacteria, her friends Daisy Ramirez and Mychal Turner discuss the disappearance of a local billionaire businessman, Russell Davis Pickett, Sr. Doing this momentarily relieves her overwhelming anxiety, but she must repeat this compulsion many times a day. To deal with this obsession, Aza must compulsively cut open a small callus on her finger, clean it with hand sanitizer, then put on a new Band-Aid. Aza is a 16-year-old high schooler in Indianapolis who has an uncontrollable obsession with the thought of bacteria invading her body and killing her.

Turtles all the way down