If Only Chapter 27 Summary

Missing

  • Corinna continues to go through her mom's old pictures; she likes remembering how she looked when she was healthy, not when she was sick.
  • She thinks about all the things for which her mom won't be there, like her graduation and wedding.
  • She instant messages Clare with an idea: Her dad can walk Clare down the aisle if Clare's mom will do mom stuff with her. She's not entirely serious, but it's not a bad idea.
  • Corinna's dad asks if she wants to go to the Spy Museum to help him do research for one of his classes. She goes, and asks him if he thinks the spies' families knew they were spies.
  • He says they probably didn't, since it would have put their families in danger.
  • Corinna tells him she thinks it's a bad idea for families to keep secrets from each other.
  • Case in point: the journal. She feels kind of badly for not telling him she swiped it.
  • She finishes the section about money problems while he watches a basketball game on television that night. Sophie's worried about how they'll send their future kids to college, though they don't even have kids yet.