Chapter 18 Summary

Davey decides to join the candy stripers with Jane, who is excited to have something to add to her college applications. Davey has other reasons for joining and isn't sure she wants to go to college at all, but she keeps these thoughts to herself. She has apparently heard a lot of lectures about her future plans. At the medical center where the candy stripers volunteer, Davey gets a case of the giggles, when she thinks of the male volunteers wearing candy striped jumpers while they work. Jane gives her a disapproving look. The director gives the group of volunteers a description of their duties and distributes their uniforms. As it turns out the boys' uniforms are white shirts and candy striped ties. Davey starts her first duty of giving the patients water to drink. One of the patients she meets is an...