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Now I've read up to page 134. A lot of what I read was about Amal and Simone talking to Josh and Adam. Amal likes Adam and hopes he likes her, too. Josh likes Simone and she also likes him back. They conciter those two boys in their "group" now because the guys SOMETIMES sit by them at lunch and talk to them and things like that. Amal is all self consous about everything when Adam is around because she wants to make a good impression for herself. On page 124 she describes the things that are running through her head after the bell rings:
"1. Is Adam going to join us? Is Adam going to join us? Is Adam going to join us? What is the purpose of living if Adam isn't going to join us?
2. Do I have time to put some lip gloss o, curl my eyelashes, and make it to the football field, and if I do the aforementioned, do I risk him alreadying having gone to the field, not seeing me there, and walking off?
3. What if I'm eating my sandwich and he happens to join us right at the moment I'm taking a huge chunk out of it? What if there's food stuck in my teeth?"
AMAL IS OBSESSIVE!
She luckily gets to have a deep conversation with Adam at the end though. It was mostly about his family life (his mom left him when he was seven and now he's living with his dad and Charlene) and Amal listens and they have good conversation. Amal and Adam are both only children and seem to have things in common with their parents.