Chapter Nine

          Devon is woken up again by the lock on the cell door opening. It is the day after her meeting with her lawyer and that means that she has to now leave her cell and get her own food, get her toiletries, and get assigned a job to do. She has to participate in all of these things in order for her to impress the judge and her lawyer. Devon straightened her cell and then went down and got her toiletries and asked the new officer what she had to do for her chore. The lady gave her the job of cleaning up after each meal. when Devon was standing there talking to  her she touched that desk and then noticed the sign that said "TOUCH THE CONSOLE  GET A O!!!"

           The lady said that it was fine because she didn't know but to not do it again. After that Devon managed to eat by herself with no one bothering her and then she cleaned up. After that she had to go to school just like all of the other girls. The teacher had her sit down and then she did role call. The teacher Ms. Coughran called every ones name and while she did this Devon familiarised herself with the room.

The lesson that day was on poetry. This was hard for Devon because it took her back to the night she read poetry with the baby's father. She had about a four page flash back to when the where walking and reading poems that where written in chalk. When she comes back she a few of the girls are reading their poems and the girl next to Devon starts to pick on her again.

Chapter Seven and Chapter Eight

               In chapter seven, Devon gets washed up and  ready to see her lawyer. When it came to talking to the lawyer Devon was very quiet and keep asking her self questions about the new lawyer. Finally the lawyer got sick of Devon's attitude and started yelling at her and giving her ultimatums. Finally Devon gave in and started doing what she said. The lawyer told Devon that she needed to start getting on the honorole system by doing chores and by going to school and working hard. Before the lawyer leaves and Devon goes back to her cell she hands Devon newspaper clippings about her story and what they are all saying.
               In chapter eight, when Devon is back to her cell where no one can see her, their she unfolded the article's and look at what they are all saying. She shuffles threw them and stoped at one in particular.
           "A Sharp pain slams into her chest, seizes her breath. One of the couch -- the blood-soaked cushions, the crumpled blanket. another of the bathroom-- the blood smeared across the linoleum, a pile of soiled towels in the corner. And still another -- a torn open trash bag, revealing the garbage contained within."
           After looking at all of them she threw then to the floor and curled up in a ball and trys to stop all of the thoughts running threw her mind. She keeps having flash backs to that night and the articles. One in particular with the heading "Miracle baby Anastasia resurrected from certain death when plucked from a trash can early yesterday"

    

Chapter four to Chapter six

      Chapter four, starts off talking about how, Devon is taken out of the court room in tears because she has started to lactate and the court thing has finished. She is taken into a hall by an officer who takes off the ankle cuffs and then walks her to a room that has all of the extra things like jump suits, towels, and bedding. Devon is told to pick-up a bed roll and then they start walking again to the girl’s part of the prison. When she gets their officer leaves and the lady security guard starts talking to her and wants her to put down her bed role. 

          "Can't I"-- Devon takes in a shaky breath and swallows-- "could I just . . . when I get to . . . my cell? Please? I promise--"

            "No," the woman interrupts. "And I'm losing patience, fast."

             
             This was such a big problem because Devon didn't want the other girls in the jail to see her and the fact that she was lactating. The officer tried to block her and get her to her cell without the the girls in the jail seeing her.
             In chapter five, Devon wakes up to her name being called. It is the doctor and she is here to make sure that Devon is in a good state of mind and dose not want to kill her self. At first Devon dose not want to talk to her but after a while she warmed up and started talking to her. She asked her questions about how she is feeling.

            In chapter six, Devon wakes up the next day to the sound of the metal door slamming. She hears the other girls out side. She looks threw the cell door and can see them grabbing their toiletries, trays, and doing some chores. Devon realises that after being up that it is only the next day and that she has to go to the bathroom. So she looks long and hard at the toilet in the corner and the decides to go. Then the security guard walks in and brings Devon her breakfast. It doesn't even fade her that Devon is on the toilet, she says a few things to her. One thing she said was that her lawyer was coming to talk to her, after the rest of the girls went to school.

            

Chapter one - Chapter three

             I was originally not planning on reading this book. I was going to read a book by the author that we heard speak, but when I went to find her book they had all been checked out. So I looked around for a book and couldn't find on so Aide went and picked one off the shelf of Abe Chose Award books. I went to read the inside cover about the book and write at the top in large letters it said "Who would leave her own baby in the trash to die?" This sentence caught my attention and made me want to read it even more.
            In the first chapter, it talks about how Devon the main girl in the story is laying on the couch with a blanket and is just blankly staring at the screen. Then her mom comes home and is surprised to see her daughter because Devon would never miss school. Devon is trying to listen to her mom when she talks to her but can't seem to focus on what she is saying. After a while of trying to get her to talk her mom gives up and then their is a knock on the door. Devon stayed laying on the couch when her mom answered the door and it was two police officers. They were asking about finding the baby and were wondering if she had seen anything, she said no but that her daughter may have. So the one officer went over to Devon and was trying to talk to her but she was having trouble focusing. Her mom wanted her to focus so she ripped off her blanket and they all looked at each other shocked and then Devon looked down at her pants and sees blood and then starts saying sorry to her mom.
            In the next chapter, Devon is on a gurney heading into the hospital, she is so confused and doesn't know where she is. She is taken to a room and  a doctor and a nurse come in and try to get Devon to calm down after telling her that they need to examine her. They gave her a sedative and when they finally examined her they found out that the placenta hadn't been delivered, so she had to go into surgery.

            In chapter three, Devon is getting put into the back of a police car after spending a few days in the hospital. As they drive she looks at the town and can see all the places she knows. They arrive at the juvenile detention canter at Remann Hall. http://www.k12guides.com/school/Remann-Hall-Juvenile-Detention-Center%3B530870002171.html. When they get their the one officer goes into the building and the other helps Devon out of the car and into the building. She sites their for a little while when the officer tells the lady about who she was and then the lady behind the glass window asked Devon some questions. After she was done asking questions, another lady took her back and told her that their was a lot of things to do because Devon had a court appointment at one o'clock. When it came time for her court appointment she was sitting out in the hall way along side other kids waiting for their court appointment, zoning out. During the trial Devon couldn't keep up with the law talk and didn't know what was going on and didn't want to ask the lawyer. After the lawyers talk for a little while the judge asked a women to talk. The lady starts talking about how they can find Devon's mom and how she wont answer her phone and she hasn't gone to her work, and has abandoned her home. This upset Devon but she knew that it was going to hapen after seeing the look on her face.

Beautiful Vision to The letter.

         In chapter twenty-one, Rosie is getting ready for a date with Kyle. They went out to eat at as a pizza place and after were at a loss for what to do next so Kyle wanted to take her to his favorite place. His favorite place wasn't like any other persons favorite place, his was a car wash. When that was done they went back to Rosie's house and talked for a little while until Kyle said "Um, sorry to say this, but ...um... I have a curfew," " I only have seventeen minutes to get home." Buy the end of the night she was daydreaming about the nights events.

        The next chapter, starts off talking about how a lady from the pageant asking for Rosie's mom to help support the pageant in any way that she could. Rosie didn't think tat she should but that wasn't going to stop her mom. After that the chapter talks about how the salon was slow so Rosie went home early. She had a date planed with Kyle that night so she was happy to go home. Before she got ready she decided to get on the treadmill and go for a run buy the end of her run she had stopped before the original time she had set.

                                        

       Later on their date they went to the drive in movies. At the movie Rosie decided to go to the bathroom and on the way their she could her the laughing of Misty and her friends. When she got closer she realised that they were laughing at Kay-Kay she felt bad for her and sucked up her pride and went over to help her and ignored Misty's mean comments. When she finally got Kay-Kay away she found out that Kay-Kay had been drinking and was now drunk, and her boyfriend wants nothing to do with her now. After Rosie helped Kay-Kay get cleaned up she took her back to her boyfriends car.

          In chapter twenty-three Rosie is starting to feel sick from all of the pound-Away drinks she has been drinking. She goes back to school were she talks to Kay-Kay about her drinking. Kay-Kay said it was because of her sunning from the Bluebirds. After lunch Rosie went to study hall were the boy who usually is asleep was staring at her and then he passed her a note that said you lass weight.

          Chapter twenty-four is about Rosie's Big birthday. Rosie wants to make it her last fat birthday. Kyle wrote her a note and took her out because her mom wasn't feeling good. In the next chapter it talks about their date and  how when they were eating Kyle's parents were their and stopped to say hi to them both. this was the first time Rosie had acutely met the two of them.This was an awkward experience of Rosie.

          Chapter twenty-six talks all about how Rosie and Kay-Kay were starting to become very good friends. They started talking about each others passes and letting each other in. They were running every morning before school each morning. Rosie didnt like it at first but knew it would help her in the long run.

          Twenty-seven talks about her moms sickness and what her family nad friends got her. Rosie's mom picked her up from school and took her to get a drivers licence and after that she went to Miss Bertha's house where Rosie was surprise to she her grandma who came up from Flordia. After eating they anounced that the car sitting in Miss Bertha's driveway was not any of theirs and it was a birthday gift from all of them for her 16th birthday. It was a run Volkswagen thats lices plate said "4 Rosie."

          After that Rosie wrote a letter to her mom that Mrs. Wallance had asked her to do as homework. Rosie didn't have to give it to her mom just to write it to get her feelings out their. Latter on thow Rosie's mom finds the letter and reads it and them finally lets her know whats going on and how she is feeling.   

Life Force to My lucky day

           In Life force (chapter thirteen) and in The biggest Error (chapter fourteen) two very short chapters. Rosie talks about how she only eats and drinks pound-away drinks and nothing else. Chapter thirteen talks mostly about her her mom and how people are starting to talk about it just like any other small town. Chapter fourteen talks how someone calls her from the salon and said that some guy just called asking for her. She wasn't sure weather it was a prank or not. But a little while after the salon called some one else called and it was Kyle. He called and asked if Rosie wanted to go to one of his basketball games. Rosie didn't known weather he was joking or not so she said no.

           In chapter fifteen, Rosie talks about how the salon was dead so Richard a hair dresser cut and styled Rosie's hair and put a little make-up on her. After that they let her go home early. Because Rosie had nothing else to do she got enough courage and decided to go to the basketball game. Where she saw Kyle and he was happy to she her. He even asked her if he wanted to go out the next day witch happened to be Valentine's day. Rosie lied  and said she did.

           In chapter Her Terms (sixteen) Rosie is at The doctors office again and this time they were talking about Rosie's mom and how she was doing. Rosie is getting mad that he mom for not telling her what is wrong with her. Rosie also thinks that if her mom was dieing she would be the last to know but her Aunt would be the first to know. I know how that feels, when everyone knows something and your the last one to know. Rosie's doctor said that "She'll have to handle it on her terms." witch I think might of made Rosie upset.

           In Chapter seventeen Rosie talks about how hungry she is but wont eat anything that doesn't say Pound-Aways. After that the chapter talks about how Kay-Kay comes into the salon and when Rosie's mom steps away Kay-Kay talks all nice to Rosie and it is sincere. They even get on the topic of Kyle, and Kay-Kay said that he likes Rosie and that he even had an old nickname and that it was "Bacon." This made Rosie happy and than her mom came back and the conversation stopped.
            In chapter eighteen Rosie goes and hangs out at Miss Bertha's house where they hung out all night. right before bed Miss Bertha gave Rosie an old box that was full of her mother's old things from high school. Miss Bertha had gotten it from Rosie's grandma before she went to Florida, Miss Bertha said to make sure that her mom didn't fined out that she had it.
            Chapter nineteen, Rosie is talking to Kyle in the hallway when the bluebirds pass down the hall and Kyle roles his eyes. Rosie asked why and Kyle said it was because he couldn't stand them and that they were mean girls. After that Rosie went to lunch where Kay-Kay asked if she could sit with her Rosie said yes and the rest of lunch was quiet.

            My lucky day chapter twenty starts off with Rosie's mom waking her up in the morning and yelling at her about some casserole that she thought Rosie ate. We all no that couldn't of happened because its not a Pound-Away product. after starting the day off bad it only got worse because later that day in the salon Misty came in and wanted everything done and got mad when Rosie's mom said that the person who dose waxing isn't hear and no one else has time. So Misty left mad. Later in the day Rosie's mom went to the store to get more things to make another casserole and when she got home found out that her sister had already delivered it to the family and didn't tell her mom.

Rolling Fat Girl to Fat girl goss bad

        Rolling fat girl, chapter seven talks about Rosie and how she looked forward to going to study hall to see Kyle. later on in the story it talks about how Rosie has a doctors appointment. she thought it was for her pediatrician but in stead her mom tricked her into going and seeing a lady who believed therapy could help in the battle to lose weight. Mrs. Wallace, the doctor didn't make Rosie do anything and told her that she didn't even have to come back if she didn't want to.
         The C word, the next chapter, lead me to think about the chapter even before I read it. I thought about what the C word could be and the first thing that poped into my mind was Cancer. So to really find out what the C word was I started to read. the chapter started off talking about how Rosie's mother wasn't feeling go and went home. "Later when Miss Bertha called to check on her, Mother was Lying on the sofa. Mother lying on the sofa is about as normal as my going for a jog." Towards the end of this chapter Rosie starts to realise that her mom might be sick and she is mad at her because she feels she would be the last to ever find out that her mom was sick. Right before the chapter ends Rosie goes into her mom's room and while their both laying on the bed, Rosie's mom tells her that she has Hodgkin's Disease. A type of Cancer. http://health.yahoo.net/channel/hodgkins-disease.html
         In chapter nine, Rosie's aunt buys tickets for the three of them to go to this Healing the Fat Girl within  conference. Rosie didn't want to go but didn't have a choice. When they got their the hole conference was pretty much just a huge advertisement center, where they were just trying to sell weight loss products. Not even half way threw the show the three of them decided to leave. On the way home Rosie's Aunt was pissed that that was what the show was about. Later on in the chapter it talks about how Rosie went back to Mrs. Wallace's office where this time Rosie told her about her mothers sickness.
          In chapter ten, Rosie goes back to the drugstore and buys the diet drinks she had been looking at. The idea of her buying diet drinks makes me sick because it is not a good way to diet, and instead she should just use that treadmill her mom got her. The next day she went to school, Misty Winters sat down with her at lunch. Misty started asking Rosie what it was like to be fat, for an article for the school news paper. While they were talking Kay-Kay Reese started talking which made Misty mad. This made Rosie think that Kay-Kay wouldn't be a Bluebird for long. After that the chapter talks about how Rosie day dreams about Kyle and how when he walked into study hall sick she went over and gave him a packet of tissues. before the chapter ended Rosie was at the salon when Kyles mom walked in to get her hair done. Rosie wanted to introduce herself but decided against it.

           Chapter eleven was very short. It started of with talking about how all she had been eating or drinking was Pound-Away bars and Pound-Away shakes. which is not healthy. After that Rosie is talking on the phone with her grandma in Florida. they talk about how Rosie is doing and then about how her mom is and that things will be fine and that she just needs to deal with the cancer in her own way.
           In chapter twelve fat girl goes bad, Rosie starts off by saying that on top of all her other problems Mrs. McCutchin had another heart attack. At lunch Rosie finally decided to eat something and she ate a lot, so when she got to study hall she was feeling sick. She decided to just walk right out of study hall and went and threw up her entire lunch. when she was finally done she rinsed out her mouth and left the bathroom. when she was walking down the hall the bell rang and kyle had stopped her. He was talking to her and she couldn't even focus on what he was saying. Before he left he gave her a pack of tissues that had hearts on them. At the end of the chapter Rosie went back to Mrs. Wallace and all she talked about was Kyle and what he gave her.