The way Aubrey reveals that Paul used to rape her is worth examining, since she seems to work her way to the truth gradually, as if letting go of her secret all at once would be too overwhelming. At first, her “secret” seems silly, a mere childhood reverie about having superpowers. However, the nature of her story grows more and more specific, until she’s suddenly speaking not just about any man, but about the one who used to move “throughout the apartment,” “clicking” through the halls on his way to rape her. Unlike Luke, who only tells Aubrey that he’s gotten somebody pregnant before but not that this person was Nadia, Aubrey works up the nerve to reveal a painful secret in its entirety. In doing so, she begins her relationship with Luke in total honesty. Unfortunately for her, though, he fails to do the same.