Veronica, “Ronnie” and her little brother Jonas is sent to spend the summer with their father in Wrightsville, North Carolina. Ever since her parents got divorce, Ronnie stopped playing the piano, failing school and shut her family from her life. She’s rude towards people, dresses all black, ignores curfew and hangs out with people who smoke and drink, though she doesn’t. When she arrives to Wrightsville, she walks off to the carnival right away. There was a volleyball game, which Ronnie watched for ten minutes. As she was walking away from the beach, one of the volleyball players bump into Ronnie, coughing her to spill her milkshake all over her. The person’s name is Will, he tries to apologize, but Ronnie is cold towards him and walks away. When Ronnie is still at the carnival, she deiced to buy a new shirt. As she was searching, a girl Blaze that is dressed like Ronnie and the same age as her assists her. Ronnie didn’t want to buy the shirt because it was overpriced, so Blaze thought of stealing it. Ronnie chose not to because she was already caught twice back at home. She’s already on probation. Blaze introduced Ronnie to her boyfriend and friends, Marcus, Reddy and Lance. They throw fireballs as shows to make money. Will and his friend Scott shows up during one of the shows. Will and Scott doesn’t get along with Marcus and his friends, due to conflict in the past. At one point, they were ready to fight, but Ronnie stops it, and from there, Will had his eye on her because he thought she wasn’t like other girls. Later on the night, Ronnie hangs out with Blaze, Marcus and his friends at bower’s Point. She starts to feel uncomfortable, because they all drink. Marcus starts to hit on her but the police came and took her home. She was happy to be away from Marcus but mad that her father sent the cops to look for her. The next day, Ronnie and Blaze see each other a CD store. Blaze gives Ronnie the cold shoulder. Ronnie questions why, it’s because Blaze was told that she was trying to get at Marcus. Blaze being mad, puts CDs in Ronnie’s bag. When Ronnie leaves the sore, she’s stopped by security and gets in trouble When she walking on the beach, Ronnie sees sea turtle eggs being eaten by a raccoon and she immediately calls the aquarium. Will comes by the next day to mark the nest. Will and Ronnie meet again, and Will has interest in her. He marked the nest but employees didn’t stop by to put a protection. It angered Ronnie and she’d have to sleep outside again. This time, Will stayed out with her. They bonded together, and the next day he took her out on a date to the aquarium and fishing. Will sees Ronnie as a different girl and they both like each other.
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“She was almost an adult, she hadn’t been doing anything wrong, and it wasn’t even midnight” (Sparks 67).
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I think this quote can relate to all teenagers nowadays. Ronnie’s currently 17 and she thinks she can do whatever she wants because she’s almost an adult. She disobeys her parents and comes home any time she wants. Teenagers today do the same thing. They [arty and hang out with their friends until 2am and ignores all their parents call. I could personally relate to this quote because I have over protective parents. They don’t let me stay out late often, but it’s not like I’m doing anything wrong, and I’m safe.
this story is being told by a 3rd person narrator?
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