Smells
- Joci gets a nosebleed at school, and Corinna takes her to the nurse's office. The medical smell makes her remember when her mom was in the hospital.
- She texts Chris to ask if medical smells are hard for him, too; he says they are.
- Corinna decides to cut a piece of Sophie's canvas bag, the one in which she found the journal, for her quilt.
- She reads another page of the journal. It's about how her mom's cell phone went off during a performance—it's a story her mom told her while she was alive.
- Corinna notices that her hair is getting really long. Her dad has pretty much stopped taking care of things like haircuts and dentist appointments (not to mention clothes), so she reminds him that she needs to have her teeth cleaned. And guess what? He actually makes her an appointment.
- He's late getting her there, though. She remembers how her mom used to always let her pick out chocolate at the drugstore before her appointments. She got to eat it afterward, which made going to the dentist less awful.
- Her dad has a lot to learn about how things are supposed to work.