- The poem that starts off this chapter isn't about Bailey. It's about someone who's lost in a different way—Joe—and it describes the first time they kissed.
- Sarah and Lennie are passing vodka back and forth, griping about the Joe situation.
- Lennie silently realizes she had been avoiding Sarah all this time because Sarah isn't Bailey; she resolves to be a better friend.
- Lennie gets the bright idea to use Gram's magic roses on Joe.
- She drunkenly sheers them all and takes them to Joe's house, but he's not there, and only his mom is.
- Joe arrives just as Lennie is about to leave. The flowers are already in a vase, though, so plan foiled.
- Joe is upset. He admits that he loves Lennie but he can't be with her because he keeps seeing her with Toby.
- Lennie says she loves him, but he can't understand how she could do that to him if she loves him.
- Then he says he can't be with someone who could do that to her sister. Which—we don't care if he's hurt—is a really messed-up thing to say.
- Lennie runs home where someone else is mad at her, Gram.
- Holding the garden shears dangerously close to Lennie's well-worn copy of Wuthering Heights, Gram yells at Lennie for cutting up her prize roses.
- Gram says Lennie has been very selfish—and not just about the roses. Gram says that losing Bailey was like losing her daughter, and that Lennie hasn't thought of her at all since Bailey's death.
- Lennie runs away.