- Gemma cries herself to sleep and wakes up the next day to discover that it's already past noon, so she's slept through most of school and no one else is in the house.
- The events from the previous evening are still disturbing her, and Gemma feels like she needs some serious answers.
- Since no one is around, she decides that she should do some snooping in her grandparents' room.
- She finds a secret compartment in their wooden bench and looks through it, only to find a single manila envelope.
- When she opens the envelope, she sees custody papers and then a piece of paper with her name and a list of dates printed.
- None of the dates seem to mean anything until she sees February 8 of this year, which is the exact date that Gemma started feeling emotions again.
- Gemma also finds her birth certificate and learns her mother's name for the first time—Jocelyn Lucas. But the father's name is left totally blank, which confuses Gemma because she was under the impression that both her parents died in a car crash.
- Gemma puts everything back into the secret compartment except the paper with all the dates on it. She hears the downstairs door slam and sneaks out of her grandparents' room just in time.
- Sophia comes into Gemma's room and asks if she's ready to go on her astronomy field trip, which is apparently tonight. Gemma wants to skip, but Sophia tells her that she has to go.