At the start, she is unhappy and bored without a telephone.
Students are often asked to summarize the story or answer comprehension questions. Here are the "answers" to the central narrative: El Diario De Val Answers
A broken music box plays three notes: C, E, G. Then it stops. A note in the diary says: "The combination to my locker is the number of the scale degree missing from the arpeggio." At the start, she is unhappy and bored without a telephone