Chapters 19 - 21 Summary

When Claire arrives at her father's house, she feels like a zombie. She can't figure out what happened to Lani, and she's exhausted from the fight, so she falls asleep as soon as she walks through the door. The next morning, her father says that Lani called; he's back at home, but he is dead set about Claire visiting his therapist, Dr. Erdman. Out of principle, Claire does not believe she needs therapy: she is saner than half the population of Hackett Island, her parents included. She phones Lani to shout at him for abandoning her on the bus, but he sounds frantic when she answers the phone. Earlier that morning, a package had arrived for him on the front steps. He assumed it was the angel costume Ellen promised to send him. But when he went out to pick up...