Bab takes a break from studying to talk with the portrait of her grandfather’s great-aunt and choke down an orange. She remembers how at her old college the administration insisted on using the gender on her birth certificate, and made her room with boys. They beat her up and spiked her food with hot sauce. At her new women’s college, she hides in her room and eats alone.

One night she bakes cookies by herself in the kitchen. She gives a cookie to her aunt’s portrait, and when she comes back to check on her, it’s gone. 

The next day she runs into one of her dormmates, who compliments the smell her cookies left in the kitchen and invites her to cook them for dinner on Sunday. Bab accepts the invitation. She returns home to consult with her aunt, and decides to bake froggers cookies.

Bab spends the week researching froggers and walking all over town to collect the perfect ingredients. She finally works up the courage to bake the froggers, and when she gives one to her aunt to try, her aunt’s smile “threatened to push her cheeks off.”

Sunday night finally rolls around, and Bab brings her cookies to dinner. The dinner goes well, and the cookies are a hit. Bab doesn’t know how her friendship with the girls will continue as they get to know her “whole self,” but for now, she’s happy.