25 - 35

Still recieving roses, Samantha gets one from her boyfriend and on the note attached he wrote 'love ya' and it comes to her that it doesnt mean the same as 'i love you.' She thinks about it for a while and forgets about it when she recieves another rose from a boy across the room. This boy was her bestfriend when they were little, her first kiss, but recently just another face you pass through the hall. On his note he attached to the rose he drew a picture of a couple sitting on a park bench and Cupid beside him shooting a bird flying over their heads. The comic shows that the bird was Cupid's original target, not the couple. She laughs and smiles to him across the classroom. After class he mentions that his parents are going out of town that weekend and he is having a party that he wants her to come to. She tells him that she will keep the party in mind if there is nothing else to do, as she is hoping something else comes up so she doesnt have to go to his party. She gets to the cafeteria and sees her boyfriend, Rob Cokran, across the way standing with a whole bunch of his friends and as he nods to her she thinks to herself why she fell for him in the first place. She remembers how it was before they were dating... the bubbling feeling in her stomach that made her so dizzy she had to sit down and all the crazy questions that ran through her head. She thinks about it for a moment longer and all the times they have spent together and is sure that what they have is love.

This book is starting to get more interesting the further I get. I can really relate to these past ten pages of the book because at a highschool age you are constantly questioning yourself on little things and sometimes maybe even bigger things. In the next couple of pages I think Samantha is going to go with her friends to get ready for the upcoming party.

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In the next couple of pages I have read, Samantha is still in the car with her friends. They stop to pick up two more friends and enjoy a bagel and coffee that their friend gave them. They talk about the outfits they have on and whether or not they specifically like the clothing their friends have on. They talk about boys and all their first times, and come to realize that Samantha is the only one who still is taking baby steps and they all make fun of her for it and she feels pressured. They get to the school parking lot and Lindsy, the one driving the car, speeds around the corner to get the last open parking spot in the lower lot so they don't have to walk a block to school from the upper lot. As she does this, the girls spill their coffee all over them. In Samantha's first period class she gets 5 roses. When she gets to second block she realizes that she has a pop quiz which isn't a good thing because she has no clue what is going on in the class lately. She tries two different ways to cheat and finally comes up with telling the girl next to her that she needs a pen, so as the girl is digging through her purse she can copy down her answers.

As the book gets more into detail I am liking it a lot more than i thought i would. I like how her and her friends interact with eachother because we have people at our school that do the same things and it goes to show that it is happening all around us. I can relate to when they are in the car talking about their outfits and saying whether or not they like them because my friends do that all the time, and it really annoys me. In the next couple of pages I think that Samantha and her friends are going to go out and do something that they might regret after it is done.

Before I Fall

(Page 3 - 13) In the book, Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, I have been reading about this girl named Samantha Kingston, a popular highschool student at Thomas Jefferson High School. She is reliving her last day alive, going into detail on everything and what it means to her. She is driving to school with her friends, talking about a party the party later that night, and the roses they hope to recieve in school for Cupids Day. The flowers are bought by boys in the school that send them to the girls and they are delivered to them during class by the cupids, and the more roses you get the more popular you are.
So far i really like the book because it is based on people around the same age as me and it has a romantic twist on it. I think as the book goes on it will get more interesting.