Summary

In Chapter 4, Will has stayed up all night watching Stella's YouTube videos. In one video, Stella is singing with her father and Abby. Will notices Abby says, “Bushel and a peck” (51) to Stella, and he wonders what that means. Will contemplates his many hospital visits, and the drug trial he has been enrolled in at Saint Grace's, which so far has made no measurable difference to his condition. He recalls his mother checking him into the hospital and offering Barb $100 to keep an eye on him. Will sneaks up to the hospital's roof, using a folded dollar bill to disable the roof door's alarm system and sliding his wallet between the door and the frame so it does not close all the way. He looks out over the city, seeing Christmas lights in a park in the distance, then realizes he can see...