At home Xandra is confronted by her mother over clothes and 'dating,' accused of wasting tuition while her father has given money to her brother Aiden for international school. The mother insists Xandra stay, threatens to marry her off after the national exam and demands the 'cripple's money.' Xandra offers to quit school and work to pay for medicine; her mother forbids it. Later her mother urges Xandra to take the exam and seize her future. Then someone asks, 'Will you be my girlfriend?' forcing Xandra to choose between a romance and the exam that could free her.