Entry Five: Outside Reading

We come to find that Josie and Peter used to be best friends. Peter’s mother delivered babies and taught a class about becoming a mother. Alex Cormier, walked in one day, but left early. Peter’s mom, Lacy, tries to convince her to stay, but notices that Alex is too preoccupied getting to a court case. As time went on, Alex and Lacy meet up and Alex doesn’t know what to do with her baby. She had an affair with her mentor who was quite a couple years older. She told him she was having a child and he told her to get rid of it, but as time went on, she wanted to keep it because he told her she couldn’t have the job she wanted if she had it. Alex started over. With Lacy’s help, she had the child aka Josie. Ever since they were best friends and raised their children together. All through elementary school Peter was picked on, but Josie always stood up for him. School drifted on and they grew apart. Josie wanted so badly to be in the “in” crowd and eventually she did. Peter was still left at home, and what always greeted him was his older brother. His older brother was mostly favored by his parents, popular, A-student, but senior year he got in a car crash and his life ended. Peter never did live up to anyone’s expectations of him and was always angry that Josie didn’t like him the way he liked her. By sophomore year, Josie started to date a guy named Matt. Josie never realized it, but Matt didn’t treat her very well, calling her names, ordering her around, and not sharing her with anyone else. How can people not see it, the way other people treat them? Are they in denial, or really do they think it’s what a relationship is supposed to be like?