Pages 106 - 123 Summary

Cookie opens the next section with the line, "My art teacher changes my life when she sees me admiring her gleaming Nikon and asks, 'How'd you like to borrow it for the weekend'" (p. 106). Cookie takes the camera to the hospital to take pictures of her sister, and gets a thrill from developing the frames in the darkroom later: "I slip the blank sheet into the chemicals and watch your face fade slowly up out of redness, smiling a deep red healthy smile at me, and I smile back, feeling like a magician" (p. 108). Recognizing their daughter's talent, Cookie's parents buy her a new camera of her own and a box full of film. Cookie is elated; it's not even her birthday!

At school, Cookie feels herself forming a crush on the new boy in her class, a boy named John...