CHAPTER ONE: Friday Morning:
Jane is writing in her 'diary' even
though it is just in a regular notebook. The unique thing about this
diary is that it's entries are fantasy and very loosely based on
actual events in her life. She is up early having seen her parents
off camping for the weekend. Saturday she would be joining 60 of her
classmates on a boat, rented and captained by Alice's father, for a
day of adventures.
Jane was waiting for her friends Sharon
and Alice to come pick her up from school. Jane has her own car but
it is old and junky and doesn't start reliably so she has been
hitching rides with them. So there she was sitting at her desk
rereading her last entry about the first “date” she had with
Kirk. The next entry she had planned was to talk about the first time
they had sex. (Which of course didn't really happen. Seriously
right here Jane bad idea! Don't write down anything you don't want
others to see!).
“She might have been the only girl in California who lied to her diary more often then she lied to her mother. She was wise enough to know that by doing so she was moving perilously close to lying to herself.”
(I find that sad that she feels that
her life is so uninteresting that she has to make shit up. At what
point would fiction become reality in her mind?)
So it turns out that Kirk and herself
were both in the ice cream store and she ended up having to fork over
19 cents to help pay for his ice cream. Then he felt obligated to sit
and talk with her. He finally did ask her out but only to come over
to her house to watch a baseball game. (Very
Classy kirk! Use the poor girl for her cable TV!) After
that they were sort of started seeing each other.
(I'm honestly not sure what Kirk is?
By the description of his build I would have assumed he was, and this
is very stereotypical, a dumb jock except she states here that he
finds classes boring and he never was one for athletics. So what
does that make him? A slacker? I don't know?)
“Her grades weren't outstanding, and no one – God forbid – would have called her a nerd.”
(Now Jane that isn't very nice! Nerds are people too and there is nothing wrong with being a nerd!)
Unfortunately for Jane before she got
down to the nitty gritty of her “fake sexual encounter” she
notices a neighbourhood cat trying to eat her sweet furry bunny
rabbit Easter. She runs down the stairs and out the backdoor to
shoo the cat away, leaving her “diary” open on her desk. (Aww
after she went to all that trouble fishing it out of her hiding spot
in her bottom desk drawer. Tsk tsk Jane. I smell something bad is
about to happen.)
(Actually I want to know how the
rabbit got out of his cage in the first place? Does she regularly let
him out to run around the back yard? I don't know to many people that
do that, just saying. Jane needs to get a better cage so poor Easter
won't get eaten!)
She reassures Easter, after scaring
away the cat, and puts him back in his cage. As she enters the house
she hears her friends pull in the driveway. Sharon comes in and
immediately asks if she has food, finds a box of donuts and starts to
eat them. (First of all nice breakfast, second of all I wish I had
that metabolism!!) Alice had introduced Jane to scuba diving and
was bringing her a long sleeved wet suit to use on their boat trip.
Jane also works part time at Alice's fathers dental clinic and
because of this he also gives her all the compressed air she needs to
dive. (That's pretty nice of him actually. He sounds like a hard
ass but I guess even hard asses have some softness to them sometime.
Unless he doesn't pay her a wage? Although I am pretty sure he does.)
They talk about the trip the next
morning and what time they have to leave. Sharon says that she asked
Alice if it was alright if Kirk came which upset Jane because she
wanted to ask Alice herself. Alice and Kirk were a couple before Jane
hooked up with him. Sharon just shrugged and said she did her a
favour and it didn't seem like Alice cared one way or another. Sharon
leaves to use Jane's bathroom. Alice comes in soon after.
Alice eats a donut and then because it
seems like all kids of dentists are anal about flossing and brushing
and because Sharon was not back from the bathroom yet they end up in
Jane's parents bathroom and talk some more about the big trip. Jane also notices that Alice is developing a cold sore but
Alice passes it off as nothing and refuses the offer of some blistex
for it. ( I guess this tidbit is important considering this is the
third time that it has been pointed out? I have a feeling it has
something to do with Kirk.)
Unfortunately for Jane Patty Brane is
attending as well. Patty, the head cheerleader, has made it a mission
to make Jane's life miserable. Jane offended Patty when she worked on
the school paper.
Alice goes to see what the hell is
taking Sharon so long while Jane brushes her hair. (Again?????)
She is still a bit worried for Easter and has a weird sense of
foreboding about the whole incident but reassures herself that he
will be fine.
“Surely Easter was safe in his cage. A tiger couldn't paw through the wire.”
(ahhhh seriously HOW did Easter GET out in the first place!? Apparently tiger's can't paw through it but rabbits can!)
CHAPTER TWO:
They get to school, Alice goes off to
remind people of the early departure time and Sharon grills Jane
about sex with Kirk. Jane tries to tell her that they haven't yet but
Sharon doesn't seem to believe. (Gee I guess someone was reading
something she shouldn't have been. No wonder why it took her so long
to come back from the bathroom.)
I think Jane gets a tad jealous when
she spots Kirk talking to a girl in a red outfit but the mystery girl
disappears before Jane can see who it is. She leaves Sharon and
approaches Kirk. After a hug she decided not to grill him on who he
was talking to. After reassuring him that she wants him to go the
next day they head off to start their school day.
Jane goes to homeroom and when Patty
and her posse come in they sit right behind Jane. A prime spot to
harass the shit out of her. Jane had offended probably ever
cheerleader in an article she wrote for the paper a few weeks back.
She even criticized the football team and the coaches skill at
coaching them.
“Trak High put another six points on the board at the end of the third period on a two-yard quarterback sneak. Not to worry, Wilcox's indomitable pep squad took a two-minute hair-and-lipstick break and were smiling pretty when our boys got their hands on the ball again on the ensuing kickoff.”
(haha whoops! No wonder why Patty was
out to get her. Doesn't Jane know that cheerleading is a sport too!
Honestly though I have always been a bit fascinated with cheerleading. I am from Canada and for the most part we do not have
cheerleaders here. So the whole concept is sort of fascinating. They
are all gymnasts and do all those crazy freaking flips, throws and
crazy people on people pyramids! Plus they have their own dance
competitions.) Lets just say that Jane was allowed to still write
for the paper just not on anything to do with sports. The football
players didn't seem to care about the criticism and even sought her
out for football advice. The cheerleaders on the other hand vowed to
get even.
Patty is wearing a red pants suit!
PATTY was the girl KIRK was talking to! (Ohh nooo he can't be
interested in her!) Jane tried her best to not let Patty get to
her, when she notices Alice in the hallway. She leaves her book bag
at the desk and goes out and sees what Alice wants. (SHE LEAVES HER
BOOK BAG ON THE DESK.!? Seriously Jane your worst enemy is sitting behind you and you leave
your book bag there. You are just asking her to mess with your
stuff! I'm also going to venture a guess that Jane' s diary is in her
bag even though at this point she doesn't realize it yet.)
Alice tells her to wait in the hallway
until she is done talking to Patty about the trip and I guess to try
and get her to let off on Jane. (Ugh! Jane Jane Jane! Your stuff is
still in thereeeee!) Just then Sharon comes and asks to borrow
Jane's text book which of course is in her book bag in the homeroom.
So she goes in and gets it while Jane still waits outside.( I
feel bad things are about to happen very soon.)
CHAPTER THREE:
The day progresses uneventfully. Jane
doesn't see any of her friends nor Kirk. Shit started to go down
during third period. Classmates started looking at her and
snickering; it got worse as the day went on. During lunch she runs
into a friend Kathy Lingren who refuses to tell her why everyone is
laughing at her. (Some friend!) And then we never see or hear
about Kathy again. She tries to track down Sharon or Alice because
they would freaking tell her except Patty gets to her first.
Jane is horrified to see that a
photocopy of her latest journal entry is in the hands of Patty. Patty
says she verified it with Kirk who said that they did sleep together
last Saturday. Jane is understandable upset, especially with Kirk. (What did she expect though. Guys who score are studs, girls who
score are sluts, in high school at least. Sad but true.)
She goes back to her homeroom to
discover her “diary” resting on a chair just like Patty said it
would be. The worst thing is that she won't be able to prove that it
was Patty that copied her entry. She sits down and burst into tears.
CHAPTER FOUR:
Alice and Sharon find her and try to
reassure her that the sooner she finds Kirk and gets him to deny it
the better off she will be.
“Jane go now. Kirk has as much to lose by this whole thing as you do.”
(I do NOT agree with that statement
Alice. The only thing Kirk has to lose by deny it is looking like an
ass because he already said it was true. Like I said before guys are
the shit when they have teenaged sex.)
Jane realizes it's strange that the
diary ended up at school and suspects Sharon and Alice. She asks both
if they read it since they were both in her room. They both deny
reading it. (They both totally read it!) They also both deny
bringing it to school. Alice says maybe Jane accidentally put it in
her book bag since it looks like a normal book. Jane didn't think
that was possible.
She goes off to find Kirk but Mr. Pan
runs into her first. (Now based on Pike's description of Mr. Pan he is
exactly like the guidance counselor in the show Freaks and Geeks, Mr.
Russo. A hippie that is totally cool with anything as long as
teenagers are responsible. I totally couldn't picture Mr. Pan any
other way.)
(As much as it is uncomfortable to
all three girls to be talking to him about sex I really have to give
him props to be at least worried that she or any of them are having
unprotected sex and the fact that he offered her condoms. But TWO
BOXES!! He tried to give Jane TWO boxes of condoms. How much teenage
sex does he thinks she is having! Also he is coming across as more
then a little bit creepy here. There is some sort of line that he is crossing here.)
Not surprising Kirk had a group of guys
around him when Jane finally escapes from Mr. Pan's office.
“If what Patty said is even remotely true, then you're quicker than any guy on campus 'cause I didn't feel a thing.”
(hahaha. Ouch!).
To give Kirk a bit of credit here I am
not entirely sure that he wanted to look like a god among his
buddies.
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