Just Listen Chapter 18 Summary

  • The next morning Annabel wakes up bright and early and heads on over to the WRUS station so that she'll make it there as Owen's show is ending.
  • Clarke and Rolly are both there, but they head out so that she and Owen can have some privacy. Owen is obviously still angry.
  • She tells Owen that she got his last CD and what he was trying to do with it, that he was trying to say that anything could be music—while Annabel's been thinking it's so profound though, it turns out that the CD was just accidentally left blank. Oops.
  • They start fighting about how she just ditched him and didn't explain anything about what was going on.
  • She realizes that she has to open up to him if she wants to salvage their relationship, so she tells him about everything—her rape, her sister's eating disorder, her falling out with Sophie, and how she feels about modeling.
  • Owen just sits there and listens, and when she's done he tells her that he's sorry about everything that happened to her. Then he says that he thinks she's brave enough to testify. He gives her the picture that he took of her at Mallory's photo shoot for inspiration.
  • When Annabel gets home she calls Emily's lawyer and talks to her for forty-five minutes—and she agrees to go to the courthouse to testify against Will.
  • She heads into the living room where her whole family is gathered, ready to change things forever.