If Only Chapter 44 Summary

Speaking Up

  • Corinna receives a reply from Daniel, the kid who lost both his parents to cancer; he says he's living with his grandparents now.
  • She wishes he went to her school. He might be one of the nice boys, unlike Dylan and Jake, who continue to tease Nicole about her weight and call her Shamu.
  • Corinna stands up for Nicole in gym class and invites her to start sitting with her and her friends at lunch.
  • Nicole does, and one day in the cafeteria, the boys tease her again—this time she stands up for herself.
  • The girls are super impressed. They walk out of the cafeteria all charged up with girl power.
  • In the meantime, Joci is bummed because her sister has mono and they've had to cancel the trip to New York they had planned for the weekend.
  • Joci's scared of getting mono, too, and she tells Corinna she hates feeling like she's waiting to get sick.
  • Corinna understands where she's coming from.