Reading: Twilight

Same deal as usual, a summary over Twilight (through page 158). Let the summarizing begin…

Suze is in her kitchen cleaning the dishes from dinner when her dad, her actual ghost dad, pays her a visit. He’s heard of the whole Paul-Jesse life changing situation from the other ghosts. Even her dad is convinced that Jesse deserves another chance at life. Suze breaks down and tells her dad about how she really wants to save him, but at the same time she wants to have met Jesse. Honestly, if I was Suze I don’t know what I would do, but maybe it’d be an easier decision if I was closer with my dad. Luckily for Suze her dad tells her that he’d love to live again, but at the same time he doesn’t want anything bad to happen to Suze, and he believes that Jesse would feel the same way. The father-daughter moment is ruined when David, Suze’s younger brother, enters the kitchen. He knows that Suze is a mediator and he suspects that she might not be alone.
The scene shifts and Suze is telling FD about everything that has happened so far while he’s be gone, but mainly the situation between Paul, Jesse, and herself. He brings up the point that in order for Paul to shift he would have to be in Suze’s bedroom, because that is where Jesse was killed, and that Paul wouldn’t be allowed into her room unless he broke in.
Saturday night, Jesse comes over to Suze’s house for a little “date night,” even though they can’t really leave her house they settle for watching a movie. You have to love the typical home-movie date night. During the date Jesse mentions that he saw Paul at the Mission (the school and church at which Jesse lives in. It occurs to Suze that Paul is going to attempt to shift to see Felix from inside the Mission. Suze gets up and leaves in a hurry to go to the Mission to try to stop Paul. Jesse stops her and asks her to explain the situation, and he tells her that she shouldn’t go; making it obvious that Jesse wants a second chance at life even if it means not meeting Suze. If you really think about it, if you were Jesse what would you want? If you died at age twenty would you want to go back and see how much of your life you could improve? However, this is not the case. Jesse warns Suze that Paul is dangerous and that he should be the one to go and stop him. Now Suze is relieved that Jesse would rather stay with her than live again. She has those butterflies that every girl gets when a boy does or says something sweet, and you want to hold onto those few seconds forever, and you replay them in your mind on a repetitive loop. The two fight Jesse would rather stay with her than to live again. The two fight over who would be best to go and stop Paul; Jesse thinks he should go because it’s too dangerous for Suze, but she thinks that she should go because Paul is doing this because of her.
Jesse left to deal with Paul, and Suze was not going to be able to just sit around all night waiting. She decided to take the portrait of Jesse and tried to shift back from her bedroom, and it worked.
Suze went searching for Jesse once she realized that the shift had been a success. Turns out when mediators shift the people can see them. While looking for Jesse a woman inside the house sees Suze and orders her to leave.
After being kicked out Suze goes into a barn behind the house hoping to find a horse, but instead she finds Paul. Suze finds out from Paul that Jesse is still alive and will be in town the next day. Paul begins to lecture Suze about how she can’t wear pants and be modern while they’re shifting because the customs have changed a great deal. He even tells her that Jesse probably wouldn’t even talk to her if he saw her “modernized” during his time period. Paul and Suze spend the night in the dry barn with the horse trying to kill time waiting for Jesse to arrive.

Thanks again for reading, I know these probably seem long and boring. I high suggest reading the books, they’re a lot more interesting than my summaries!