Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content, emotional abuse, and mental illness.

Pippa is nervous as she meets Ivy Matthews in the recording studio. She feels, “I’m ready to make music my career. Terrified, but ready” (300). Pippa wonders if, since Jamie’s mom is getting medical help, he will be freer to live his own life. She sings, then sees that Jamie has joined them in the studio, and she falls a bit further in love.

Jamie is proud of Pippa for her recording session and realizes that calling her “songbird” is a way of saying he loves her. He asks if she will be okay if he contacts Erin. He tells Pippa that touching her is a dream, and he would only be disappointed if she didn’t enjoy it.

Jamie expresses the goal of making Pippa experience two orgasms, and they have sex. Jamie reflects, “Sex has never been so playful, and I can’t think of another time I felt so comfortable around someone” (309). He feels it will be too risky to tell her that he loves her, but he wants this relationship to last.