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Friday, May 16, 2014

#36 Dawn and the Older Boy



Hey, I’m back!  The babies are eating, sleeping (for the most part) and pooping on a schedule now, so I figured I can squeeze a few moments into my chaotic day to do a snark.  Goodness knows, six-month-olds have no concept whatsoever of sarcasm.
 So, let's begin yet another book with stalking the prevailing theme, shall we?
So Dawn and the rest of the BSC are having a sleepover and doing all kinds of girly things.  Everyone’s life story is revealed and I yawn.  We do get a Claudia look: black bib overalls over a white turtleneck with a shiny black patent leather belt looped around her waist.  Black sued ankle boots and white cotton socks.  I like the added hat.
The girls don’t go to bed until 3am and rise closer to 11.  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh, those were the days.  They roll downstairs looking ragged and probably not smelling much better.  OMG, there’s a highschool hottie at the table.  AND HE’S EATING GRANOLA!  He must be from California – he is!!  They turn tail and run back upstairs, attempting to look much more attractive.  They return and highschool hottie is still there!  He and Dawn strike up a conversation and she is in luv!  MA warns her not to hopelessly crush on him, making Dawn a little miffed with her.
And it’s Monday…apparently Dawn loves Monday because it is the first BSC meeting of the week.  Rah.  No, no, what she really wants is to stalk Travis via Kristy. 
 Because you know, Kristy cares about things like that.  She (obviously) knows nothing and Dawn just comes off a little desperate.  The only action that’s happening is that Mal has a date with Ben Hobart.  This just leads Dawn back down the path of daydreaming….starring Travis.
Amazingly enough, the next Saturday while Dawn and MA are raking leaves, Travis just happens by their house.  There are two pages spent talking about his car before he finally whips out a box with a necklace and haircombs in it for Dawn.  Then he starts giving her style advice.  Ok, that’s just a little creepy.  Hey, I’ve only met you once, but I’ve figured out where you live and now I’m giving you gifts and telling you how to style your hair.  Creepy stalker boy!!
Jessi sits for the Hobarts.  James has written a play and Jamie Newton and the Perkins girls are there to perform it.  James’ friend Zach stops by and makes fun of him, but James brushes him off.
Tuesday Travis shows up at school and spirits Dawn away to “help him shop for a gift for his father.”  No, no, he just wants to spend time with her.  He takes her to eat (ordering for her, GASP*) and then to buy her some butterfly earrings that she’ll “wear under the stars.”  Barf  He tries to talk her into getting another hole pierced in her ears and I wonder yet again just what his deal is.
Dawn arrives home, finds out that MA has blabbed to the parents about where Dawn was and they give her a darn good bawling out.  MA sneaks into the kitchen to listen in on the scolding  
 
Why bother peeking through the keyhole?  Just pretend to be feeding Tigger.  In the end, Sharon decides that maybe she’ll let Dawn see Travis again and then she gets into a fight with Richard.
Dawn confronts MA about blabbing and MA tears up,   Lest she float along on a sea of MA’s tears, Dawn says to forget about it and move on.
professing her undying love, her horrid inability to lie, her secret desire to watch Dawn squirm….oh, did I say that out loud?
As Rachel pointed out in her last post, whenever Kristy writes a notebook entry, it’s because she sits for her own sibs.  They pretend to go camping and it ends with Karen talking about witches.  Go figure.
Dawn sits for the Hobarts and James is working on his play again.  Zach comes along and pressures him to leave and join him.  James decides to go along and Dawn is very disappointed in him.
At the next meeting, Kristy drops the bomb that Travis is dating a hot high school girl.  Dawn completely zones out for the rest of the night.  She sits and muses about Travis while MA tries to do homework.  MA doesn’t seem that surprised that Travis is dating someone else and does seem surprised that Dawn is upset. Nice, Miss Empathetic.  Dawn stews some more and then decides to stalk Travis. 
She gets her chance a few days later.  She follows them to the burger joint and then to the jewelry store.  Dawn is OUTRAGED!  How dare he take her to the same places he took her!  The kissing gets to her and she storms away.
Dawn flips out at the meeting when all the girls are talking about how awesome Travis is.  MA convinces her to tell them what’s going on so she spills it.  They all agree that he’s a creep and that she’ll meet someone wonderful someday.  MA mentions Logan’s cousin Lewis, whom Dawn immediately dismisses as being too far away to really matter.
MA sits for the Hobarts, where James is attempting to put on his play.  Zach comes by again and again James lets him pull him away.  MA thinks that Zach is trying to make James into someone he’s not and she feels that Travis is trying to do the same thing to Dawn.
Dawn decides to confront Travis about things and follows him after school yet again.  She confronts Travis with his girlfriend at the jewelry store and realizes they are laughing at her, calling her a little girl.  She leaves, feeling hurt and very foolish. 

MA tells Dawn that she’s a lot like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and how Travis was trying to change who she was.  MA encourages her to confront him about this and Dawn decides she will.
She calls him and confronts him.  Travis doesn’t really seem to get it, but apologizes.  Dawn decides he’ll never get it and ends the call.  MA comes in and tells Dawn that she send a letter to Lewis and she wants Dawn to meet him and write back to him and they can be creepily serious with 13-year-old boys together.  Maybe they’ll even have a double wedding like Jane and Lizzy Bennett. 

Dawn agrees to read the letter from Lewis, and feels something for him.  And we call Stacey boy crazy??  They write to each other and there’s the possibility of romance between them.  MA squees. 

The end.

I really don’t get the premise of this book.  Travis took her out a few times, bought her some earrings and gave her some hair tips.  It’s not as though he was trying to change who Dawn was.  I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

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