Dear Edward

Edward refuses to talk to Dr. Mike about his emotions after falling outside. He focuses on his friendship with Shay: “their deeper connection—which he’d always known was his oxygen—has been slowly dying” (191). After asking Shay why none of the other students at their school likes him, she explains that “everyone has some sad story. But you got famous for yours” (194). Some of the other students are jealous of Edward.

Edward begins walking around his neighborhood late at night. The night before his 15th birthday, he investigates Lacey and John’s garage. Inside is a computer workbench, and Edward realizes the garage is “where John keeps the messy odds and ends that his wife won’t allow inside” (196), another sign of John and Lacey’s fractured relationship.

Edward finds a stack of folders in the garage; a paper in the first folder has a list of passenger names and seat numbers from the flight. Edward can’t look at the rest of the pages alone, so he wakes Shay and asks for her help. For her assistance, she makes him promise to be more open; Edward accepts responsibility for the rift between them.

Shay and Edward go through photos of passengers in John’s folders.