Have you ever felt like no one understands you and that you just don't fit in?  Do you hate your school and almost all of the people in it?  Do you love your mother even if you know she really doesn't understand you?  If so, you can relate to Jamie Thessman.  Jamie has just managed to fail her junior year, mainly because she cut so many classes to be with her friend Webb.  She and Webb have been friends since Jamie was nine years old.  He is the only person who understands her.  Her mother is taking her to Chicago for the summer because she has agreed to be the lead attorney in a high profile murder trial there.  Webb is going to backpack in Europe for the summer.  Jamie cannot believe she isn't going to have Webb around for the whole summer.  The only bright spot she can see is that her mother will be so busy with the trial that she will not have time to bug her.  As the summer develops, Jamie’s mind begins to play tricks on her.  Her world begins to splinter into daydreams and what is real.  Her daydreams cause her to have a bike wreck that lands her in the emergency room Even though Jamie is quite a good cook; her daydreams cause her to burn a beautiful meal.  She begins to wonder if she is crazy.  She does make a friend in Chicago; Morgan Hackett shows Jamie what friendship is all about.  She and her psychiatrist aunt help Jamie understand that she is not crazy at all.  She has just been carrying around a burden that is just too heavy to bear alone.  Read The Night I Disappeared and see what made Jamie act as she did.