When you first meet someone, do you care right away if they like you or not? Most people don’t care if they don’t even know the person, but it was much different for Audrey. She first met Mailee and instantly wanted to know what Mailee thought of her. Actually she didn’t even meet Mailee, she just saw her at the bus stop. Audrey definitely formed an opinion about her right away.
In order to find out what Mailee thinks of Audrey, she
starts a slam book. A slam book that reveals a bunch of secrets. A slam book
that you can ask your own questions in. A slam book that everyone reads and
passes around. A slam book that reveals everyone’s likes and dislikes. A slam
book that hurts people’s feelings. A slam book that isn’t allowed.
Once Audrey reads what Mailee wrote, she isn’t very happy
with the outcome. This has been the only thing that Audrey was worried about
and now she feels hurt by it. She was so consumed by it that she hadn’t been
treating Carmen like best friends should be treating each other. It wasn’t
worth it because it was all for nothing. Mailee doesn’t like her, doesn’t want
to be friends with her, and so Audrey won’t even try to be a friend to Mailee
either. She decides to take another look at the slam book with the hurtful
words enclosed.
She looks at the faint pen in writing. The answer to the
question, Audrey Jones is…? There on line 37, (Mailee’s line) it says, “A lousy
friend and a terrible volleyball player.” Audrey felt as if she were bleeding
inside. She looks at line 37 in the back of the book where it is supposed to
say Mailee’s name. But all that is on the line is one big question mark. Once
she examines it closer, she recognizes the small curl on the end of the
question mark. The same one that Carmen makes.
Calling Carmen, she feels a little bit of hope as if Carmen will
hopefully forgive her. Carmen’s brother picks up the phone and Audrey asks to
speak with her friend. After a few moments of silence, Audrey hears Carmen’s
voice on the line but her brother then picks up the phone and says, “Sorry not
here.” Then all goes silent as the call ended. Obviously Audrey knows that she
is mad and she knows she has to fix things between them.
This reminds me of one time with my friend Brooklyn. The main conflict between me and Brooklyn was that she
didn’t want to hang out with me or talk to me because I was so consumed with
other things. She was sick of it and after talking about it with her, I
realized that I was wrong and we fixed the problem between us. This is the same
situation that Audrey is in. The main conflict was person vs person. Audrey vs Mailee and then it completely changed to person vs person but between Audrey vs Carmen.
After Audrey finally got to talk to Carmen, she apologized
and they made things right again between them. That was there way to resolve the conflict between them which allows that to be the book's resolution. This is what happens when you drift
away from one of your best friends. Audrey was wrong and she realized that. They
were in a fight because Audrey decided to obsess over something nobody else
would. It was because of the slam book. The slam book that hurts people’s
feelings. The slam book that isn’t allowed.
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