Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 Summary

Helen awakens late the next morning. It was three am when she learned that Barry was out of surgery, with a good prognosis but no details, and Collie took her home from the hospital. She reviewed the events of the previous evening in her mind, still feeling upset that Barry's parents had not listened to her when she told them that she had not called Barry on the phone.

She wonders who could have called Barry, however and remembers a conversation she had had with her sister Elsa on the night of the accident. When she came home Elsa noticed her eyes were red from crying and proposed that the reason Helen had been crying was because Barry had broken up with her. When Helen said no, they were fine, Elsa said it would happen sooner or later.

Helen's...