Questionable Media Month Part 16
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amatyultareChapter 16 – Hara-kari
It’s actually ‘hara-kiri’, but frankly that’s the least of this book’s problems.
“My weary existence slithered into Sunday.” Oh, give it a rest, Sadie.
Sadie is double-checking her homework one Sunday when she hears Alex listening to loud, angry music in his living room. She identifies the band as Three Days Grace and immediately realizes it’s the perfect song for the final fight scene between Edward and James. She needs the song name but figures that calling or texting Alex directly would be weird, so she decides to text Adrienne and ask her to ask him what song he’s listening to so they can use it in the show.
In case that wasn’t clear: Adrienne is going to text Alex “Sadie heard the song you’re listening to and wants to know what it is” and that’s going to be less weird. I don’t think Sadie has quite thought this through.
Well, in any case, Alex responds to Adrienne, and Adrienne responds to Sadie, and Sadie is happy.
On Wednesday Lucey’s out sick and “whispers in the hallways suggested something serious was wrong with her.” Oh God. If she’s pregnant I may actually throw my Kindle at the wall.
A few classes later, Sadie and Adrienne hear Lucey’s henchgirls gossiping in the bathroom: Lucey has been sick to her stomach for a couple of weeks and threw up on the bus yesterday. One of the henchgirls dramatically reveals, “Lucey is pregnant!”
(Where is my table-flip emoticon when I need it?)
And then her two friends start speculating on who the father is because Lucey won’t say. The obvious guess is Nigel, but they also consider every guy she’s ever slept with or dated. Which is apparently every guy in the junior and seniors classes because, in case you forgot, Lucey is an evil slut. Finally, they get around to guessing Mr. Lord, which they think kind of makes sense because why else would she be keeping it a secret?
The henchgirls leave when the class bell rings, and Adrienne and Sadie discuss thusly:
“ ‘Poor Lucey,’ Adrienne attempted sympathy.
‘Please, Adrienne. She’s got no one to blame but herself.’ ”
FUCK.
YOU.
And of course, immediately Sadie starts thinking about whether Lucey can still play Bella if she’s pregnant. Um, even if she got pregnant on the first day of school, she’d still only be a couple of months along? It wouldn’t even really be showing? And still, neither Sadie nor Adrienne seem to give a thought to the whole STATUTORY RAPE aspect of things if Mr. Lord really is the father.
Three periods later, everyone knows that Lucey is pregnant and plans to stay in the musical. Nigel is keeping quiet, Mr. Lord is cockier than ever, and the cast is making bad jokes at Lucey’s expense.
Sadie is daydreaming about Lucey dropping out of the play so she can get the lead part at last when she literally runs into Alex in the halls. She says hi for the first time in forever and is shocked when he’s brusque with her. He’s (understandably!) upset that she’s ignored him and been rude to him for months, and then went through Adrienne to ask what song he was playing.
At least this gets Sadie to realize that she’s been a huge jerk to Alex, although now she’s convinced that their friendship is over. There’s an uncomfortable extended metaphor where she ‘pull[s] a knife out of her chest’ and examines her feelings about the whole mess. She’s jealous of Alex, his newfound hotness and popularity. And so she gave up on the friendship without even trying.
To relieve her pain, she starts playing piano and singing sad songs. Annnd of course she figures out that this Vanessa Carlton song called Twilight would be perfect for Bella (no, really), which at least makes her feel a little better even if Evil Lucey will be singing it.
It’s actually ‘hara-kiri’, but frankly that’s the least of this book’s problems.
“My weary existence slithered into Sunday.” Oh, give it a rest, Sadie.
Sadie is double-checking her homework one Sunday when she hears Alex listening to loud, angry music in his living room. She identifies the band as Three Days Grace and immediately realizes it’s the perfect song for the final fight scene between Edward and James. She needs the song name but figures that calling or texting Alex directly would be weird, so she decides to text Adrienne and ask her to ask him what song he’s listening to so they can use it in the show.
In case that wasn’t clear: Adrienne is going to text Alex “Sadie heard the song you’re listening to and wants to know what it is” and that’s going to be less weird. I don’t think Sadie has quite thought this through.
Well, in any case, Alex responds to Adrienne, and Adrienne responds to Sadie, and Sadie is happy.
On Wednesday Lucey’s out sick and “whispers in the hallways suggested something serious was wrong with her.” Oh God. If she’s pregnant I may actually throw my Kindle at the wall.
A few classes later, Sadie and Adrienne hear Lucey’s henchgirls gossiping in the bathroom: Lucey has been sick to her stomach for a couple of weeks and threw up on the bus yesterday. One of the henchgirls dramatically reveals, “Lucey is pregnant!”
(Where is my table-flip emoticon when I need it?)
And then her two friends start speculating on who the father is because Lucey won’t say. The obvious guess is Nigel, but they also consider every guy she’s ever slept with or dated. Which is apparently every guy in the junior and seniors classes because, in case you forgot, Lucey is an evil slut. Finally, they get around to guessing Mr. Lord, which they think kind of makes sense because why else would she be keeping it a secret?
The henchgirls leave when the class bell rings, and Adrienne and Sadie discuss thusly:
“ ‘Poor Lucey,’ Adrienne attempted sympathy.
‘Please, Adrienne. She’s got no one to blame but herself.’ ”
FUCK.
YOU.
And of course, immediately Sadie starts thinking about whether Lucey can still play Bella if she’s pregnant. Um, even if she got pregnant on the first day of school, she’d still only be a couple of months along? It wouldn’t even really be showing? And still, neither Sadie nor Adrienne seem to give a thought to the whole STATUTORY RAPE aspect of things if Mr. Lord really is the father.
Three periods later, everyone knows that Lucey is pregnant and plans to stay in the musical. Nigel is keeping quiet, Mr. Lord is cockier than ever, and the cast is making bad jokes at Lucey’s expense.
Sadie is daydreaming about Lucey dropping out of the play so she can get the lead part at last when she literally runs into Alex in the halls. She says hi for the first time in forever and is shocked when he’s brusque with her. He’s (understandably!) upset that she’s ignored him and been rude to him for months, and then went through Adrienne to ask what song he was playing.
At least this gets Sadie to realize that she’s been a huge jerk to Alex, although now she’s convinced that their friendship is over. There’s an uncomfortable extended metaphor where she ‘pull[s] a knife out of her chest’ and examines her feelings about the whole mess. She’s jealous of Alex, his newfound hotness and popularity. And so she gave up on the friendship without even trying.
To relieve her pain, she starts playing piano and singing sad songs. Annnd of course she figures out that this Vanessa Carlton song called Twilight would be perfect for Bella (no, really), which at least makes her feel a little better even if Evil Lucey will be singing it.
