Chapter 9 Summary

Annabel arrives at her school forty-five minutes late and runs into her own friends leaving the school. They stop and exchange greetings, and then the girls move on, only to stop to inform Annabel, whom they think is her mother, that Annabel ditched school that day. Annabel is now concerned for her body's well-being, worried about where her mind will go if her body is dead and her mother wants her own body back.

When the meeting begins, Annabel must listen to her principal, her homeroom teacher, and the school psychologist discuss her like she is not there, which she is not supposed to be. Annabel is not happy with her grades or what they are saying about her. When her homeroom teacher breaks down and begins to cry, confessing how she feels she has let Annabel down, Annabel becomes aware of what...