Just Like That...

As Hanna Meets the girls at the park, they go back to her house to catch up and eat. They talk for hours on end as any longtime teen make-up friendship session goes. The girls will graduate soon and grad parties are coming up and as they plan on going to friends parties Hanna is reminded she too will have to be the center of attention, something she isn't so used to.
As family fills the room and friends of her mom's Hanna stays inside and avoids conversation. As the girls get ready to leave for other parties, her mother gets the mail, and nicely invites the mail man in for a drink. As Hanna walks away she can tell something isn't right in her mom's eyes, and for good reason. The note Hanna had sent her long lost grandmother was replied to and now in a nice envelope in her mother's hands. As Hanna reads the note too herself, as her mother had requested, she notices Lydia, her grandmother, never once mentions her mother. At this point Hanna isn't going anywhere to deal with graduation. In the note another thing is mentioned, the fact that Hanna had sent her a picture she had drawn of her mother, Dancing at Fifty.
The book's last chapter is four years later, we find out Hanna had been traveling, Barcelona, Rhode Island, and is now living in Chicago. She has quit art school and is now going to DePaul for theater design. Her mother has moved to Toronto with Charles, now her husband. As Hanna gets off a bus in the middle of a blizzard she walks to her apartment where she lives alone with a cat. She sees an ad for a new gig playing at a local club, the star? Sylvia Callahan, Aerin's alias. She decides to go despite the weather and when she goes she wears Will's old hat. Her and Aerin catch up, they put four years into 20 minutes and Hanna find Aerin too has been traveling. New York and Tuscon and every once in a while does a gig or two at a club. Aerin crashes with Hanna and as they stop by the store for food Aerin makes a call to Will and leaves a voice mail, now 19 years old with a full ride for baseball to USC. When they reach Hanna's apartment Will calls back, Hanna hunkers down and they start talking Aerin falls in love with her cat, she asks what it's name is and as Hanna starts the conversation with Will she replies, "Jailbait."