A Week of Worrying

Authors Note: I have just recently got some news that isnt earth shattering, but it could turn out to be. I have been very stressed out latelty and wanted to get some things off my mind without telling everyone the story.

Today is the day. A week of worrying all led up to this. So much support, so much worrying, and the person who its really hurting doesn’t even realize how much could happen in that room. Three hours, the best surgeon in Milwaukee, and the one I love on the table. So much pain and sorrow I feel for him, yet nothing I say or do can help. No balloons or cards can bring him happiness. Support is all I can bring. Yet, even such a small gesture won’t feel like enough. I never knew that I could feel this helpless until now, in this moment.

The Summer I Tured Pretty Point Of View

The book The Summer I Turned Pretty is written in the point of view of Belly, a sixteen year old girl who is in love with her mother's very close friend's son, Conrad.  For almost the whole book he is very to himself, but Belly doesn’t know why. Jeremiah knew what was wrong with Conrad and why he was being this way the whole time but, she was left out of this information. First the depressing news about Susannah and her husband getting divorce, and then finding out towards the end of the summer that Susannah's cancer had come back. From her point of view nothing was wrong with Conrad, just the fact that Conrad was acting out, that’s all.

Her mother's best friend Susannah was like a second mother to her, and yet there were things still held a secret from Belly. She didn't know that Susannah and her husband Mr. Fisher were getting a divorce, or about the cancer. She has heard her mother and Susannah fighting earlier in the summer, but didn't think too much about it. Susannah didn't know that the boys knew or otherwise she would have told the story to everyone. She wasn't one to keep a secret unless it was in the best interest of the people she loves, there was no way.

The whole summer Belly didn't know what was going on around her. She was held back from information that she was obligated to know. Susannah was a part of her life and shouldn't be in the dark about things that were happening in her life. If she had only know all those times her mother and Susannah asked her to just stay home, and be with them was actually because Susannah had cancer again, she would have been there spending as much time as she could with her. Now time is limited and summer is over, what would she do now? She had to go home, where right now she didn't want to be.