Reminders of Him

At the T-ball game, Ledger fields awkward questions from the cop about who he was with in his cab. Diem tells Ledger she really is not interested in playing T-ball anymore. She is more into pretending the T-balls are dragon eggs. She dreams of being an actress in cartoons. At McDonald’s after the game, Diem asks Ledger about her mother—she has never really been told much about her only that she cannot visit her because her car is too small, a story her grandmother came up with. When Ledger returns to Diem’s home, he cautions Grace that Diem is getting “curious” (64).

As the cab she takes approaches the Landry home, Kenna has time to reflect on how to approach Scotty’s parents. The two had only dated six months before the accident, and although both of them knew how deep their love was, to his parents she was little more than an annoyance.

Now she is uneasy. She has never even seen a photo of her daughter. She has brought a gift for Diem, a teething ring. She knows how much Scotty’s parents hate her. They blame her for leaving the scene of the accident and leaving Scotty to bleed to death out on the highway for more than six hours.