Chapters 19 - 21 Summary

Francesca and her friends are invited to another party. Even though she knows Will Trombol will be there with his girlfriend, Francesca attends and does her best not to make eye contact with him. She dances wildly on the dance floor with her friends, feeling for the first time as if her mother's illness belongs in another world. Suddenly, Thomas Mackee shouts for her to get upstairs and attend to Siobhan whose crying in the upstairs bedroom. When Tara and Francesca arrive, Siobhan is half-naked, bawling in the bed. The guy she had been making out with called her names and insulted her. When Siobhan starts vomiting, Francesca helps her to the bathroom and holds a cold cloth on her forehead, the way Mia used to do for her. That sudden memory brings Francesca to tears, and she and Siobhan sit...