the truth about forever (chapter 6)

once macy was apart of the wish team for awhile she noticed alot more about wes and bert, more about the "gotcha" game. how they obviously chose random moments to do it, or how they kept count. wes was still winning , like he was when bert jumped out at macy on her first night of work. this "gotcha" game all started when wish died. they're house got so quiet, they fealt as if they would do anything just to make the constant silence thing go away. it was theyre idea of entertainment. wes noticed that macy watched theyre game so one day he decided he was going to teach her how to do a proper "gotcha" on bert. they hid in a closet at a brunch they were catering. bert went to put a coat away in the closet and out jumps wes and macy , so bert screams like a little girl and left with letting macy know that now, she's in the game, and that he's gonna get her back.  they then went on the fiish the brunch, everything went smoothly until the ham was missing. they forgot it at home on top of delias car. but to delia, it was impossible because they have a "new system". in this system each person was responsible for one thing. it just happened to be delia that was responsible for the ham. it was impossible for them to go home and get them so they called in a favor at a local butcher, so the ham crisis was averted. later that night macy turned down yet another night out and she headed home like always.
when she got home something was different , her fathers truck, the one that sat at the beach house for the last two years , was now sitting in her driveway. it was like a weird dream for her. she went inside and up to her room, the door that she always left closed was wide open but nothing in the room was messed up or moved. her mother was at work, so she knew it wasnt her. it was caroline who showed up at the house.
the next day, instead of spending lunch by herself she spent it with her mother and caroline, which, with all the tencion, wasnt that great. thingd didnt really start out rough but then caroline brought macys dad nto the conversation, she wanted to talk about the beach house, the beach house that macy and her mother havent been to in two years. she wanted to talk about fixing it up. caroline didnt wanna fix it by herself, she wanted macy and her mom to go with her, as a famiy vacation.  but, macy's mom was basically saying no, she wast even trying to let the conversation go any farther than caroline had already taken it. caroline kept taking it farther and farther, and went on the explain how macy had no life, how she needed to spend time actually being a kid, but macy went against it and said she was 'just fine" even though she knows that she isnt. finally, macy's mom opens up, she lets all of her fealing abuot theyre dad out. she tells them how scared she is, they even talked about the past and all of the things they did with theyre dad. then, she decided on possibly fixing it up.
this lunch did make macy get back to the library late. which gave amanda and bethany all of the ammunition they needed to be rude to her, they rudely told her how she was late, that lunch did end at 1. but, she , with the same attitude they had told them that it's ok, that she wasnt missed and she'll work just fine the rest of the time, and they didnt say another word to her the ret of the night.
after the library macy had a funtion with wish, which ran like always, with bumps. afterwords macy was invited to go to dinner again and for the firt time she said yes. but, kristy wasnt supprised, it was like she knew macy was going to eventually say yes.
macy's mom imporessed me, because i saw how hard it was for her to express herself, and she got over it for her children. i know personally how hard it is to pretend you arent scared, to pretend that everything is just okay. how hard it is to open up.
im also beggining to see a change in macy and wes's relationship, theyre slowly getting closer, theres deffinetly a spark between the two.

questions:
1. why was caroline so persistant about fixing the beach house?
2. why didnt macy tell her mom about jason, even after her mther brought him up yet again?
3. do you think jason will question macy about being late the one time?

quotes: 1) "my mother was fcusing on some distant point across the room, her face was completly composed, looking at her in the light falling across our able i realized that she looked tired, older than she was" pg:11o
2. "macys focused on school and her grades are excellent. she has a wonderful boyfriend just because shes not out drinking beer at 2 am doesnt mean her life isnt full" pg 109
3. "i wasnt sure what to think as i climbed the stairs, remembering how many times i'd wished my dad would just turn up at the house one day, this whole thing one big misunderstanding we could all laugh about together . one day." page 107

the truth about forever (chapter 5)

telling your mother that your no longer dating somebody that she loved is hard work, which I'm sure is why she kept quiet and didn't tell her mom about the break with Jason, even when he job at the library came up in they re conversation. Macy's mom didn't approve of the catering job. in Macy's moms eyes she was too good to work in a catering company. Macy's mom was making it a point to show that Macy already had the library job, Macy assured her mom that the library job was going to be her first priority. 

when Macy showed up to work at the library to work Bethany and Amanda were shocked. they knew about the break, Jason didn't tell them though, a mutual friend of theirs and Jason's "spilled the beans". Macy assured them that it wouldn't effect her concentration and she just went on her day , being ignored by them Like always. when Macy got home her house was quiet like always, he mother was in her office, like she is everyday. Delia called not too long into the silence. Delia called because she was short handed and was hoping that Macy would go and help her out. Macy had nothing to do so she agreed to work, Delia gave her the directions and Macy left without a word to her mother. Macy had a hard time finding it and when she did find it she ran right into a giant pot hole. Wes came out with his truck and helped her out of it, though Macy was shocked that it was Macy in the car, he wasn't expecting her.  they talked about the sculptures a little bit and then Wes left and Macy went straight to Delia's. Delia and Macy were in the garage making finger sandwiches when Delia brought up wish. wish was Wes and Bert's mom. she made the catering company, but a few years ago Delia ended up taking over because wish had passed away from breast cancer. wish was young, only in her 30's, her early 30's. Delia brings out all of her feelings that go along with wish passing on, Delia's feelings all relate to Macy though. Macy knows how it feels to lose somebody so close because she lost her dad.

emotionally, this book yanks at my heart a little, as it would to most who have lost someone so special or important to them. in a way the book makes me smile because, even with wish gone Delia has learned to cope and share happy memories that she has about wish. though, the book does shock me in a way because i didn't expect the author to openly bring emotions out, because its such a touchy subject. however its a great thing that the characters can open up like that to each other, i envy them for that. because the sculptures were mentioned a few times i think that they're going to somehow come into play soon, i think that Wes might even let Macy into that part of his world. 

questions:

1. why might delia be so open with her emotions? do you think she feels comfortable talking to macy about this? why or why not. 

2. why didnt wes automatically mention that he did the sculptures? might that be a hidden part of his life? why or why not.

3. how come macy didnt open up about jason to her mother? why is she so pesistant about wrking at the library? 

quotes : 

1. "he blinked, seeming to be confused, then shook his head "nothing.i jsut thought maybe, um, youd seen it before or something, there are a few around town" page 90

2."im so srry, delia" i told her "really" she looked up at me, a piece of bread in one hand " am too" then she smiled at me sadly" page 95

3. "it felt so werd to be on the other side, where you were the one expectd to offer condolences, not receive them. i wanted me "sorry" to sond genuine because, it was"