Chapters 5-9 Summary

In Chapter 5, Hayley looks outside Stella's kitchen window, watching the summer evening activities as Lily plays with Logan. It's an evening filled with lazy contentment, and she remembers days like this when she was a child. Now she is the mother.

She talks with Stella about how good life is, and she dreams about how wonderful it would be to have someone as crazy about her as Logan is of Stella. She tells Stella that she doesn't know what's wrong with her lately, but she keeps getting caught in a "poor-me" routine. She asks Stella to give her a smack next time she starts feeling sorry for herself.

That's the kind of personality she has. When her mother left, she learned to survive. She and her dad had a great life together, and she had done well in school and had...