Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child sexual abuse and rape.

Zinnia comes to get Fern in the middle of the night because Holly is hiding in the attic bedroom and will not come out. Zinnia is too pregnant to climb up the stairs, and she is worried that Holly is going to hurt herself. Grudgingly, Fern agrees to help. She realizes that Holly is going into labor under a bed, hoping to have her baby alone in order to save it from Reverend Jerry’s clutches. Because Fern has already gone through labor, she understands that Holly cannot hope to deliver a baby on her own, so she goes to fetch Nurse Kent over Zinnia’s protests. Nurse Kent gets Fern, Zinnia, and Holly into a taxi, but several of the girls claim that they are bleeding profusely, so Nurse Kent is forced to go back to help them. Meanwhile, Zinnia tells the taxi driver to take them away. She explains to Fern that this was part of the plan. The other girls have undertaken to distract the nurse while Zinnia tries to get Holly to Hagar’s.