Reading: Twilight

More summaries from Meg Cabot’s Twilight (through pg 125). As usual, my opinions and connections are bolded, ready? Here we go…

Paul is still convinced that Suze is planning on killing him so she can have Jesse in human form. When I first read this I thought of the movie called The Mummy and how the dead emperor guy needs living humans’ body parts to recreate a new body for himself and his princess girlfriend. The two go back and forth arguing over this for a while and there isn’t a real clear “winner” of this argument and it goes unfinished because it is interrupted; Jesse breaks up the conversation and starts beating up Paul and Suze starts yelling at Jesse to let Paul go, except Jesse is invisible and everyone at the school thinks the two are going insane.
Paul tells Jesse of his plan to save his life and Jesse thinks he’s making up the whole idea. Suze starts to worry wondering if Jesse really would want Paul to save his life. She gets nervous when Paul starts telling Jesse that he’s wasting Suze’s time because with him she’ll never be able to have a marriage, kids, grandkids, or be able to spend time with him. Jesse will just spend his time watching her die, just like he had to with his family. During this conversation Jesse mysteriously disappears and Suze thinks that they, her and Jesse, will just finish up the matter later.
As a punishment for having skipped class, Suze has to manage the bake sale at her school during the art auction. To raise money for a new basketball court, the school is having an art auction. Suze’s attention is drawn to the auction once someone bought a belt buckle that Suze’s brother had found in her house for eleven hundred dollars, turns out that someone who bought it was Paul. Maybe this is a foreshadow as to how Paul will travel back in time using this old belt buckle as his ‘anchor’ to Jesse’s time period. Paul admit he knows that the belt buckle isn’t Jesse’s and that he won’t be able to change Jesses, but he reveals that he plans on going back and stopping Jesse’s murderer.
We learn again of Jesse’s history and how he died, only this time more in detail. Felix Diego, the owner of the belt buckle, was asked by Jesse’s soon-to-be-wife and also his cousin to kill him. Felix did so and Jesse’s body was never found. Suze tells us of how Paul had been visited by Maria and Felix and how he had summoned them. She goes through this whole entire scheme of how she can stop Paul from reaching Felix again.
Suze goes to Paul’s house and insists to talk to Dr. Slaski again, only this time Dr. Slaski seems unwilling to help her. Suze explains the situation between Paul, Jesse, and herself and Dr. Slaski is on Paul’s side. He believes that Suze and Paul should be together because they are both mediators. He brings up the point that Suze needs to talk to Jesse about whether or not he wants a second chance at live or not. Suze asks Dr. Slaski about being able to transfer a ghosts soul into a living body, and his response is that Suze doesn’t have the guts to actually go through with that plan and kill someone for their body. Instead he offers her a new solution but before he can say exactly what it is he goes unresponsive.
Suze rushes down to tell Paul who claims that Dr. Slaski has OD’d on his medicine. She thinks this is ridiculous because Paul hasn’t even seen him yet, but Paul leads on that he helped his grandfather OD. What kind of person would help a family member OD? I mean let’s be serious here. Paul claims he did it because he knew Suze would come over after the auction to ask Dr. Slaski for help, and Paul didn’t want that to happen. Reading about family members betraying each other like this makes me think of all the crazy soap operas that people watch these days, like The Young and the Restless. The people on that show are always out against everyone else.

I’ll end here giving you a little suspense and the opportunity to ponder on what might happen to Dr. Slaski. Did Paul really OD his grandfather? Was it enough to kill him? Thanks for reading!