Her Last Death (105-149)

SUMMARY:

These two chapters begins the summer between Susy's sophmore and junior year in highschool. She spends the summer in Taos, where her mother bought a house. Over that summer, Susy turned 16 and before her birthday had gotten there all Daphne could talk about was Susy losing her virginity. Her birthday had finally come and Daphne took her to the bar to see a band member that had been watching her recently. Daphne said he liked her. Daphne and her daughters moved closer to the stage so they could have a better look at him and he a better look at Susy. Before the night was over Daphne told her to take Penny home and she would make sure Theo would come home with her so he would be her first. When Susy got home she picked up around the house and moved from laying down to sitting up to her room and the living room. She couldn't decide which way she wanted to be when he entered the house with her mom. Eventually she feel asleep and when she woke up, she heard Daphne sleeping with Theo in the next room. Fed up with her mom always taking wait she wants, Susy lied to her mom after her betrayal and said she lost her virginity to Lincoln a couple of days later.

Susy no longer was going to go to the boarding school out East but now she was going to be in Colorado attending boarding school with Penny. She developed a crush on her English teacher Dr. Crawford, a married man. Everybody knew about her crush and they playfully teased her about it. When Dr. Crawford found out, at first he felt uncomfortable with it however as time went on the two of them started an affair. He took her virginity and made her promise she would not tell anything to anybody because he could lose everything. He claimed he was happily married. Susy went to Wyatt's, Dr. Crawford, house on multiple occasion and the two of them would not even look at each other for more than a couple of seconds when his wife was around regardless of what they were doing in her house. Their affair continued until Susy went to Boston for college and even continued even though Mrs. Crawford found out about the affair. After the affair was done and over with, she told her mother, at first she wanted to know every single detail but then began ranting and raving that she was a liar and good for nothing.

QUOTATION:

"You're making it up. You're making it up. I sat rattled and blinking on the edge of my bed, which felt like the world's edge. Had I made it up?" (Sonnenberg, 149).

REACTION:

The context where the quote was taken from startled me. I was shocked that her mom was finding out about her teenaged daughter 2 year long affair and what Daphne really wanted to know was how he touched her and what it felt like. For about 2 seconds she acted like a mom, trying to press charges but that idea left her mind as quick as it came. Where was Penelope when her affair was going on with her teacher?