Hazel wakes up to her mother jubilantly announcing
that it´s Hazels thirty-third half birthday.
Hazel agrees to met her schoolmate Kaitlyn at the
mall to please her mother. At the mall Hazel purchases the two
sequels to the novel Augustus gave her. When Kaitlyn arrives, they
both discuss Kaitlyns high-school love affairs and shop shoes.
Hazel feel very sad, because she also wants to have
normal lungs and the girls go their separated ways. Because there are
two hours left till her mother picks her up, Hazel begins reading the
sequel to “The Price of Dawn”, called “Midnight Dawn”.
Hazel notes how violent the series is, but there is
something exciting about it. While reading a young child asks Hazel
about her tube in her nose. She explains that it´s called a cannula
and that she needs it to breathe.
She allows the child to try it on. Hazel reflects on
the natural innocence of the child, contrasting the normalcy of their
short interaction with her strained time with Kaitlyn.
