today you will get to know what happens in chapter 9-12.
In the end of the post about Sam's trip to Hastings I asked myself a few questions about how the story could go on. After reading the chapters I'm talking about now, I can finally answer them :)
Chapter 9:
What are the results of the pregnancy test? How is Alicia going to tell Sam?
In the beginning of chapter 9 Alicia visits Sam. They talk about him running away and about the pregnancy test:
"Do you want to know the results of the pregnancy test? - I think I can guess. (...) she just nodded." (p.123, l.29 & p.124, l.1,11)
Is Sam's family really going to family counselling? Is Sam's dad joining them?
Annie, Sam's dad and Sam are visiting a counsellor called Consuela. Together they try to find out the reason why Sam ran away, but they come to the end talking about the parent's split up and about school.
Alicia and Sam decide to tell their parents about the pregnancy.
Alicia's mum starts to cry right away, while her husband shouts at his daughter. Sam's mum reacts very calm. She cries for a while and then talkes to Sam and Alicia. She shows with words how much she's hurt:
"Of all the things, Sam. Of all the things you could do. All the ways you could hurt me." (p.144, ll.4+5)Chapter 10:
Sam's dad hears about the pregnancy, as well as the kids at school. Sam and Alicia get back together and plan to go to "NCT classes" (classes where you get information and support for pregnancy and birth). They visit one but because the other participants are even older than Sam's mum, they avoid going to it a second time.
At the end of chapter 10 Mark, who is in a relationship with Annie, moves in. Sam doesn't seem to be very happy about it. I think this quote shows very good what Sam is thinking:
"The moment your dad's out of the house, then there's a possibility of someone else's dad moving in. And then things can start getting worse." (p.160, ll.10-12)Chapter 11:
Sam and Alicia are talking to her parents about their future and that Sam is going to move in when the baby's born. Sam is talking to Annie about the same. She's not convinced of the idea and tries to change Sam's opinion, but he responses:
"She [Alicia] wants me to. And there's a lot of getting up in the night and burping and all that, isn't there? Why should she have to do that on her own?" (p.168, ll.1-3)At least Sam talkes to his Tony Hawk poster again. Out of Tony's answers Sam interprets that his idol is frustrated.
"And when he was frustrated, he wizzed me." (p.168, ll.25f)Chapter 12:
Sam is wizzed into the future again, where he meets his little sister Emily, the daughter of Annie and Mark. He also meets Alicia and their baby Roof again, who Sam has to take to the doctor. Going to the doctor emphasizes as being pretty difficult for Sam who doesn't know anything about his son, not even his real name.
So let me give you one quote summarizing this whole "dream":
"It was all too much, meeting my sister and my son all on the same day. It would be too much for anybody." (p.174, ll.27-29)
This has been a little summary of chapter 9-12 and I hope you liked it. I also hope that you're still looking forward to knowing how the book's going to end.
I'm really excited!
Last lesson in school we talked about the topic "teenage parents" and about a song which deals with adoption. The song we worked with is called "Everything to me" from Mark Schultz. I'm going to say something about it in my next post!
If you want to listen to the song, just click on the link below :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPYaRJOWznk
Greetings,
Maike
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