True Confessions of a Heartless Girl is a 2002 novel by Canadian author Martha Brooks, her seventh novel for young adults.
Noticing that she is most likely in some sort of trouble with no place to go, Lynda makes up the cot for her to sleep on that night.
Later on, Noreen notices something slimy in the couch cushions, a gnawed-on chicken leg, and tosses it to the dog.
As she is leaving the house to meet up with her boyfriend at the time, Brad, Bob remarks that she looks like a hooker.
One night, Bob opens their door and stands in the doorway, waiting to hear a sound out of them.
Noreen begins living with them on the condition that she finishes high school and visits home once a week.
• Confessions of Covetousness - Noreen Age 17: After being left by her boyfriend, Tyler, in a Mexican restaurant in Saskatoon, she starts hitchhiking her way back to Winnipeg.
He offers to drive her anywhere and they end up staying in a cheap motel outside of Winnipeg for 2 days and 3 nights until his pay cheque runs out.
Gladys had the cops out looking for her and is upset that Noreen is breaking her promise to finish high school as she is still responsible for her.
After Noreen discovers the coffee tin full of Wesley's savings, she takes some of it to buy food for their dinner.
As soon as Wesley sees them, he goes to look inside his coffee tin and is so furious that she didn't ask his permission first that he storms out of the apartment.
Dolores finally hears Noreen's full story and asks her whether she loves Wesley.
Dolores feels a sense of power that she had before her daughter, Mirella, got sick and died from leukemia.
Dolores convinces Wesley to go for a drive with her to Tiger Lily Hill, where there is good deep spirit and where answers can be found.
Lynda takes Tessie to the vet, where she has to stay until she is better; as the ultrasound found shards of chicken bone in her intestine.
He stands in front of the mirror and looks at the strands of Noreen's long blonde hair that he hasn't yet cleaned up.
Back in Pembina Lake, Del offers Noreen the lakeside cottage for her to stay in for the night.
The fire spreads and envelops a box of Del's photo albums, part of the rug and an old chair.
The three of them sit down and Del tells them the story of how his older brother, Danny, drowned in the lake 34 years ago.
Seth asks why and Del answers that he had been "holding hands" with Danny's wife, Vera.
[1] She peels part of the wallpaper back and a huge piece of plaster falls away from the wall.
Not long after, the driver of the weekly Grey Goose bus comes into the café for a pack of cigarettes.
As the bus passes a junction in the road, she recognizes Lynda's red hatch-back and Del's big green truck.
When Noreen returns to the café, Lynda is still furious with her but Del defends her, saying that it would have collapsed sooner or later because of the water damage.
She finds her asleep on the couch, watching a re-run of Oprah in a gravy stained sweater that is buttoned up wrong.
Meanwhile, Del tells Noreen that her debt to him is paid and that he realizes he is not doing her any favors by keeping her in Pembina Lake.
Noreen feels weird and goes back to the washroom where she finds a huge blood clot and knows that she has lost the baby.