Reading: Twilight

So now that I have to being reading outside of school again, I've picked up Meg Cabot's Twilight, from The Mediator series. No, this is not the typical vampire Twilight, this time it's ghosts. Instead of doing set paragraphs of summary and then connections, I'm smashing them together but I'll put my connections etc. in bold. I'm big on detail and exaggeration,so this might belong, but I'm through page 62 and this is how it goes...

As an intro into the book Susannah Simon, the main character, tells her story of how she loved getting up to watch cartoons every Saturday morning. I totally relate to this buzzing feeling of Saturday morning excitement! One Saturday her dad announced he was going to the park, and asked if Suze wanted to come with him. Seeing as she was into her cartoon she rejects her dad's offer without even looking at him or saying good-bye. Suze and her mom find out later that he dad died from a heart attack while he was jogging through the park. After she gets the news all Suze can think about is if she had the chance what could she do to go back and prevent everything from happening to her dad (we tend to blow off the intros into books, but, seriously, remember this people!)
The actual story starts out during the night with a mysterious feeling towards it. Suze is searching for this rock, and once she finds it she begins to dig looking for whatever is under the rock when a shadow appears. At first Suze thinks its the cops, but it turns out to be this kid Paul Slater. It ends up that she knows Paul, and that Paul has taken the box, which was supposed to be under the rock, because it is filled with $2,000. This money belongs to a lady named Mrs. Gutierrez, who is dead and left the money for her children. There's an obvious tense relationship between Suze and Paul. Paul tries to walk off and talk the money but Suze tries to reason with him so he'll leave it with the kids. While she's trying to reason with Paul, the name Jesse keeping being brought up as if he's Suze's boyfriend, but she keeps mentioning how he's been dead for like one hundred and fifty years or so. They fail to reach a compromise and Paul takes the money anyway. The whole time I was reading about this Paul kid I couldn't stop thinking about how I have an extremely similar relationship with one of my friends, friend is a confusing term because we have the biggest love-hate-brother-sister-relationship going on, but hey I love the kid!
The next day Suze goes to school and Kelly, the most popular girl queen bee of her school, starts telling her about how Paul asked her to their winter formal and is taking her to this fancy five star restaurant for dinner blah blah blah, the kind of stuff girls like to rub in other girls' faces (this is so true to real life. honestly, no one cares where you go for dinner, I mean food is food). We find out that Paul is your typical A-winning-rich-model-student of a jock too, so to anyone who doesn't know him he basically sounds perfect (we can all think of a few real life examples to fill this one, no names though, please). Suze is so confused as to why Paul's asked Kelly because he has basically been stalking her, Suze, and asking her to go to everything and everywhere with her.
 Anyway, Suze gets called away from the conversation with Kelly to talk to Father Dominic (we'll call him FD for typing purposes). FD says that he has to go to San Fransisco because this guy died choking on a hot dog (I wonder if it was from a hot dog eating contest or something like that, they never say) and he wants her to take care of his cat while he's gone. He also mentions something about avoiding the lust from Jesse while he's gone saying that, "Temptation is difficult enough for anyone to resist, particularly the young, who haven't fully considered the consequences of their actions." Let's face it, we've all heard this 1,000+ times from parents, other relatives, church leaders, teachers, etc., so we all relate here.Then FD goes on a rampage about some ghost girl he fell in love with from the Middle Ages and how their relationship failed miserably. Suze is optimistic though and believes and her and Jesse are not "destined to follow the same path."
At this point it's revealed to us that Suze, FD, and Paul are mediators; Suze and Paul know "particularly the little-known fact that mediators can bring the dead back to life."  I don't watch the show, but while I was reading this the first thing that popped into my mind was the show The Ghost Whisperer and how Jennifer Love-Hewitt talks to ghosts and such. 
Later, Suze and Paul go back to his house for their "mediator lessons." This totally made me this of the show The Wizards of Waverly Place, how they always have their "wizard lessons" (that sounds dumb, but hey my little sister watches it!).  While they're there Paul shows Suze his grandfather's, Dr. Slaski or Mr. Slater (they call him both), book called The Book of the Dead, Dr. Slaski is a mediator too but he insists that they are "shifters" not mediators. We also learn that Dr. Slaski is faking to be extremely mentally sick because Paul's father basically disowned him, but only Suze knows that Dr. Slaski is fine.This reminds me of my grandparents, if you know me you know why, and if you don't believe me you don't want to hear the over dramatic family stories.  Anyway, Paul shows her these passages talking about the fourth dimension, but she's completely unsure of why she's having to read it. Paul tells her it has something to do with Jesse, and this just makes Suze start to worry like crazy. The two bring up this agreement that they've made that Paul can't do anything to hurt Jesse even though we all know he's like madly in love with Suze. It's brought up because Paul wants to try and doing the fourth dimension time-traveling stuff, and Suze thinks Pauls going to try to hurt Jesse. Paul goes to take Suze home and we learn that Paul still has Mrs. Gutierrez's money and he says that he won't give it back because he really needs it but won't say what for. Paul just keeps telling Suze that she'll find out what the money is for later.
Now it get's interesting because Suze stole her mother's car and drove to her school to see Jesse, yeah we finally figure out who he is. Apparently he's some super hot, stud-muffin, nineteenth-century, dead gentleman who lives at the school in the rectory by FD (I forget exactly where it happens but we learn that Jesse was arranged to be married and his "wife-to-be" was in love with someone who her father didn't think was good enough for her so she killed Jesse in hopes of being able to marry her "dream man"). Suze starts to relay her day and such about how Paul's been a total jerk and is plotting to do something to Jesse. Now we learn that Jesse and Paul hate each other both for various reasons and Suze absolutely hates the fact that the two boys constantly fight over her. Jesse reminds and tries to convince Suze that he's a man and can handle Paul on his own if he tries to do anything to hurt him, or Suze for that matter. Right there, I see why she loves him. He's a total cute sweetheart, it's probably the old-school gentleman in him. Then they go into a makeout scene, that I'm not going to describe, because we all know what those look like. If for some reason you don't please walk through the hallway during any given passing period and you'll see. Suze starts to ask Jesse about the passages Paul showed her earlier, and asks about the fourth dimension, but all he tells her is that it is 'time.'
The next day the students are taking aptitude tests in their homeroom classes, like the ones we all take in advisory and hate with a burning passion because they give you careers like tattoo artist and magician. Suze starts day dreaming during her test thinking about her future, which she already knows. Her future will consist of being a mediator and whatever else if she decides to get a side job. Then she begins to have a mental break down about Jesse because she realizes that he doesn't have a future (obviously because he's dead, he can do whatever he wants). She has a flashback to a previous conversation she's had with Jesse about his life and jobs from the nineteenth-century.
Tests are finished and turned in, Suze and Paul are talking about time traveling and how it's like Back to the Future where you can't change things that have already happened because they will alter the future. Paul insists that they should be able to messed with a dead person's past because the person is already dead and their future couldn't be altered..stupid Paul, every knows that if you do that it'll just alter the future of those around.

Well if you actually read ALL of that, I'm very proud. Generalizations are not for me and I don't see a career in Cliff Notes or Sparknotes for me! Thanks for reading, and look for more later.