- "When Joe plays his horn" could be the title of the poem that starts this chapter, if Lennie's poems had titles. According to Lennie, Joe's horn playing causes her to fall, flowers to swap colors, centuries of rain to pour back into the sky. Well then.
- Date-time. Joe shows Lennie around his house, and the tour ends in his room.
- It's a huge mess of instruments, half-drunk cups, and notebooks, but Lennie likes it.
- They admit how much they like each other, and make out.
- Joe suggests they play a duet, and he leaves to search for a clarinet.
- Lennie's in his room solo for a while. She tries to figure out why she was with Toby earlier when she likes Joe so much. She decides it can't be about trying to forget Bailey, because when she kisses Toby, she feels like Bailey is all around them. And being with Joe makes her feel a little guilty, as if she's abandoned Toby and Bailey.
- She also misses Sarah, who she's been ignoring, so she texts her.
- Then she finds an opened notebook with her name in it. She reads part of what appears to be a diary entry by Joe about how much he likes her and how she's nothing like Genevieve.
- Naturally, she wonders who Genevieve is, but when Joe returns, she doesn't ask.
- They play a duet, which makes Lennie really happy. She feels like Bailey is listening.
- Then they have a picnic with wine, cheese, and a baguette outside. Ooh la la.
- They ask each other if they've ever been in love.
- Lennie says she hasn't felt anything strongly until recently, after Bailey died. She explains that she felt like she was asleep until her sister's death, but now she's awake.
- Joe, on the other hand, has been in love before. With Genevieve, until he walked in on her hooking up with his boarding school roommate. Bummer.
- This makes Lennie feel incredibly guilty for what Joe almost caught her doing earlier.