Part 10, April 7, 1988 to August 10, 1988 Summary

April 7, 1988 - Laura writes of her happiness with her new job "at the perfume counter" and at working with Ronnette. She also writes of how her relationship with Bobby has cooled and muses on the strangeness of falling in love, on how vulnerable it makes people, and how she can't let herself do it until she's sure BOB is really dead.

April 10, 1988 - Laura writes of her distaste for Mr. Battis, the manager at Horne's Department Store, where she works at the perfume counter, and of her simultaneous jealousy and resentment of Donna's happiness with Mike. When Donna left the store, Laura writes, "it was like she was leaving forever."

April 21, 1988 - Laura details the secret code she and Ronnette have developed for getting together and sharing drugs, her idea to make some extra cash selling sexy...