Beautiful Creatures Discussion – Week 2

SPOILER WARNING: This post details the plot of the book Beautiful Creatures. If you have not read the book and don’t want to know what happens, don’t read any further.

Hey all!  How are my girlies doing?  Oh hi! I see we have a couple of new girlies floating around.  Welcome Welcome!!  As most of you know, I am Fragile’s little ferret sidekick and host of the spectacular “Thank Greta It’s Friday”.  (Greta/@erikasbuddy)  What?  I can’t plug myself?  Too bad! Muhahahahaha!!

How are you enjoying this beautiful book?  Isn’t it super fab and freaking dope? (check me out. I’m trying to appeal to a younger audience haha)

I’m so excited to be here today to tell you all about the chapters that I read.  Be warned! I speak in typos.  I can’t helps it.  Just ignore em.  I also brought my fabu bestest bestest bud along with me to help me out this week.  Please Welcome ERIKA! (@efisch726/mypetpet)

That’s right my pet!! You can be the sidekick this week muhahahahaha!!!

How awesome for you to invite me my pet. I am Uber excited to say that all your typos have or will be corrected by me..because they drive me nuts! Let me say she already had 2 typos before i joined in!! HA HA.. Wow you all get to read us in action! If only you all could see us together or hear us on the phone!! I think we would drive you away!! 🙂

I’ve never done anything like this before so Ladies… be gentle with me.  I’m still a VIRGIN when it comes to hosting a book review.

DUDE! Get off my leg!! That excited you?  geez!!  Go sit over there and wait till I call on your ass to comment.

Please excuse my Pet.  She excites rather easily.

Well I’m a virgin at this too..so I had to hump something to pop our book review!!!

Now we can be newbies instead of virgins…. You know you enjoyed that hump!

So, where we last left off our sensitive little reader boy was off to FIND the MUSIC! Oh my my my my! He’s just has to get out of that school and clear his head and ditch and uhhh… that’s not something I actually condone.  I mean what is this teaching kids?  So, umm yeah….

Don’t even go there Greta.. You DITCHED all the time!! You DITCHER!!

Dude… I heard some freaky ass music.  Can I like borrow your car?

Why hellz no, First you gotta let me hear this freaky ass music.. HA HA HA..I would have to go with you just because thats how we roll!!

Anyways…. Let’s get this week kicked off

Yea let’s kick it already!!

Collision 9-11

Holy Crap! It’s September 11th!!  Dude! Did you notice that?

Woahhhh I wonder what year they did this????? Was I in Kosovo?

What was I talking about?  Oh right! the COLLISION chapter.

Well, like the poster child for proper education, Ethan ditches school to try to calm down and quit freaking out.  Apparently that hand in the clay and the song in his head was really starting to get to him.  He pulls out of the school parking lot and is super duper shocked that he has to turn on his headlights to see in front of him.

Wait a sec.  It’s raining!  Uhh… In the state of Alabama you always have to turn on your headlights when its raining.  Yea its the law! You’ll get arrested and ticketed and maybe even frisked if you don’t. So, ummm…. hmmmm…. that shouldn’t have been a shocker to him.  Maybe he’s just not old enough to know that.

Dude, thats like common sense now!! They made that the law in the early 90s.. I think

So, it’s dark and creepy out and THE STORM (da da da dramatic music) is moving in.

I counted, as Amma had taught me years ago – one, two, three.  Thunder cracked, which meant the storm wasn’t far off – three miles according to Amma’s calculations.

Now, Boy…. I’m not too sure that’s the most accurate way to figure when a storm’s gonna hit.  My grandma taught me that you’re supposed to look at the leaves. And when they flip upside down that means that the trees is going to catch the water and it’s about to rain.

What the hell … leaves flipping upside down to catch water… uhhhhh dude leaves are not cups! They flip and turn different ways because of the wind, but they don’t stay flipped.  What Amma said was right! Thats how I do it! I count!

And off we go! Let’s get out of the parking lot!

Ethan pulls up to the street light (which apparently are pretty scarce in this town. )

Hey dude… Do they even have a streetlight in Littleville?

ummmmm …..yea at the police station LOL oh and lets not forget the County Line Package Store… They have one too!!! 🙂 Let’s go get beer!! Give me your keys……

So, our Smallville Boy is trying so hard to find a radio station when OMG!!! — The song is B-A-C-K!!  Woah!!

Well, after a tiny little freak out Ethan decides to play all Thelma and Louise and just DRIVE because he needs to get away from that song.

Did you not tell him that he should probably turn the radio off?  That would help quiet it.

No because the UFO above him had a magnetic force field that kept his radio staticy enough that the off button didn’t work!

But where on earth …. or maybe somewhere else …. MUHAHAHAHA!! is this song coming from?  It’s like it’s following him around like Scrappy Doo.  Small and annoying but somehow we’re gonna try to just ignore it.

Driving like a Duck out of hell (hey! IT’s wet and bats don’t fly in the rain) Ethan looses control of his bud’s car and starts spinning round and round and round (you can scream here if you like) “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW” until PLOP! the car stops… and these mega green eyes (that he thought was a deer?  Bambie doesn’t have green eyes) are staring back at him from the road.

(BTW… Green eyes, huh?  Hmmm… I’d like to get stuck on the side of the road in the pouring down rain with a nice pair of green eyes. YEAH BABY!!) My hubzz has green eyes!!! HA HA HA

So, the Green Eyed Something is standing in the middle of the road in a downpour doing some crazy Crocodile Dundee move and the car just suddenly STOPS.  (are you on the edge of your seat?!!)

Do you know who it was?!! DON KNOTS!!

NO!! It was Lena Duchannes standing out in the middle of the road in a poncho and uber green glowstick kinda eyes that sooo didn’t look human to Ethan (ZOINKS!)

Now, Lena is soo trying to act like it’s perfectly normal to be out there.  Wait…. so she ditched school, too?  And she’s telling our Boy to quit trying to run her over, her uncle’s creepy car broke down, and to chillax about those moon marks on her arm cuz her dog likes to gnaw on her, and to just leave her alone.

Ethan isn’t too cool with it all cuz he WANTS Lena to admit that she knows about the dream and the song and the fact that those two met in their sleep.

Lena’s not having any of it.  Maybe she thinks this is Ethan’s way of flirting… or maybe she knows. Dude…..you know she knows!!! Its soo obvious, we just have to keep pretending …If she knows then she’s soo not admitting it and decides that she’s just going to go home. Hello duh..She’s running away from the truth!!! Ethan has a hiss hiss (remind you of anyone?) LOL and insists that he’ll take her back to her uncle’s house.  Lena figures that he’ll kill her with his mega insane driving skills and that maybe walking in an open area with lightening flashing all over the place has to be safer than hitching a ride back with The Duke of Hazzard.  Ethan promises to be super safe and convinces her to get in the car.

They get in the car and well…. you know…. guys dig wet t-shirts and long wet hair.  Ethan kinda oogles her.

Her black T-shirt and jeans clung to her like she’d fallen in a swimming pool.  Her gray vest dripped a steady stream of water onto the pleather seats.

Well, being the smooth operator that he is, Ethan gets Lena to take off that pesky …. vest?… I can only figure it was a vest. Dude it was her Poncho!! Dork!! You even just wrote that! HA HA HA AWESOME!! He wants her…He says

You should probably take that off.  It’ll only make you colder.

So, I’m going to assume its the vest “PONCHO” because I can’t imagine the authors trying to get an under-aged girl, sopping wet in a car with a boy, out of her shirt in the first 46 pages.LMAO For REAL!!! NOW… If I were to have wrote it lol!

And while Lena is making herself a bit more comfortable Ethan decides to TURN ON THE HEAT.  Ok Ladies… they are in a car…. In the front seat, no doubt,  and Lena is COLD and Ethan is not… and he’s all like “Hey, I felt some mighty fine electricity running through my bod when I touched you.  I’m gonna warm you with my heater.”

What were you thinking of? Did you see it too?!!  (yeah… I’m hopeless!!) It’s such sweet Hotness!!!! I love it!

While on their way to The Haunted Mansion .. *cough cough… I mean Ravenwood Manor (even that sounds like a haunted mansion name.  Like maybe some ghost named Casper should be living out there), Ethan notices the numbers written on Lena’s hands.  He decides not to ask her about that because he was just being you know.. eyeing her… so instead he decides to ask Lena why she’s in Gaitlin.  Lena tells him that she’s lived in different places her whole life and now she lives here.  SO then!! Ethan learns that her parents are DOT DOT DOT DOT Dead!!  (ok! I squeed!!  Is that wrong?  She’s an orphan and needs a shaggy boy to… wait… shaggy boy… I’ve been making all these Scooby Doo references and I just realized we have a shaggy boy! OMG! So, like LENA could be Velma and…. I’m rambling aren’t I?  … anyways… I thought that was cute.  Plus, since Ethan doesn’t have a mom they have something to bond over) BONDAGE….Its gonna happen!!

Now… who is kinda thinking that Lena is in charge of all that rain?

“Looks like the lightening’s gone.”

“I’m sure there’s more where that came from.”

“Maybe.  But not tonight.”

She looked at me, almost curiously.  “No.  I think we’re done for tonight.”  Her eyes looked different.  They had faded back to a less shade of green, and they were smaller somehow — not small, but more normal looking.”

Damn.. Lets crack that glowstick again!!

I mean uhhh….. her eyes?  I mean… think about it!! Doesn’t Storm’s eyes on X-men change colors when she controls the weather?  Well, that’s what I think.

Lena is finally home and they do the shuffle the feet and look at the sky kinda “Ok… (i love you)…. it was nice seeing you (i dream of you)…. thanks for the ride (i have a secret)…. see you aound … (after i go to sleep)” goodbyes.

Lena goes into the house but before she gets to the door, Ethan tells her about how Mrs. English has a bum eye and how Lena might want to move so she doesn’t have to talk to her in class.  Lena just smiles a sexy little “hey this will make a great ending *wink wink” and tells the boy that she’s cool with it.

Ethan pulls out of Ravenwood to go home, but before he does, there on the passenger seat is a little silver button. Can you say awwws?  I was so thinking GLASS SLIPPER (you thought that I was going to referr to another movie weren’t ya? haha!)

Before I let my pet tackle the next chappy, I’d like to take this time to let you girlies in on a little secret.  I had my son read Beautiful Creatures up unitl the end of this chappy.  I even had him write his thoughts about this chappy down for us to see just how a 12 year old boy thinks when it comes to fangirl swoon.  My son is normally only a fan to Harry Potter and Captain Underpants.  This is what he thought:

Broken Glass 9.12

Ok Dude… You tackle this chappy

So my views go here??

yeah, they go here.

Awesome…So we begin with Ethan waking up from an awesome sleep, but he was sad because he didn’t have that dream again? He misses it already! He even checks his hands for dirt in his nails and looks around for dirt in his bed, but everything was peachy.. He was clean. Ewww!!! He checked his hand?  Dude! So, we have a 16 year old boy sitting in bed looking at his hand and uhhhh…. That’s a little TMI

He checks his iPod for the moon music..but it was not on there..

Link picks Ethan up and Ethan apologizes for leaving his car soaked and smelling gross. So Link continues by telling Ethan he’s crazy and peeps are thinking he’s acting all weird.

Ethan soooo wants to tell Link and spills that he has seen Lena and tells Link the whole story!! Link was freaking out and couldn’t believe that Ethan drove Lena home and asked if him if he saw “Him”.. They can’t stand to say Old Man Ravenwood’s name!!! Ethan was all like ” No , man I didn’t see him..”

They get to school and Ethan goes to English class. He has all these thoughts running through his head about Lena and her necklace, her shoes, the clothes she’s wearing, Everything a guy must think of that turns them on… yeah baby! He was thinking about her in that wet t-shirt back when she was in Link’s car.  I bet it was an uber turn on fantasy thing – while all these thoughts go through his head She bumps into him and they touch and holy cow SPARKS flew!!  The lights above them actually shorted out..weird!! Talk about the energy going through them.

So after the blushing and OMG’s..Lena sits back in her spot, in front of the teacher. The teacher with the bum eye as Greta mentions previously. haha! You sited me. That’s awesome! So crazy Ethan was like “I’m gonna sit by my woman”… and sits right next to her!! Everyone in the class was gasping!! GASP GASP ! Like ‘I can’t believe he is going to sit in front of crazy teacher and right next to crazy girl’, but instead of complaining they all go and join Ethan  up at the front of the class too (One of the chicks name was Emily and another was named Eden). They didn’t want Ethan to be lonely…AWWWW how sweet!!! Dude..He’s like sooo not into them! I knows!! He’s all like… Go away you non Lena-chicks… I’m trying to Woo my Woman.  You two are so cramping my style and getting in the way of these smooth moves I’m trying to like woo her with.  Scat! So all these chicks are like “This class is such a bore Blah blah blah…did you read the chapter of this boring book” They were all being like..THIS IS MY PREY.. He’s mine… Not yours… without really saying it. Making sure that Lena gets their attention. Lena was like “whatever” basically and got her notebook out and started writing in it.  Emily notices this and starts texting with her phone.. She’s tweeting it

The teacher continues on with her “To Kill A Mockingbird” book lesson (FYI! Erika has never read this book. She’s a loser Girl that made me read it for her then she copied my test back in like 12th grade) and start talking about Small town settings and racism…. This makes these girls Eden, Emily and others start mouthing off about Lena. Ethan just sits there in amazement and doesn’t say a word but talks in his head and Lena responds back to his thoughts …And responds back in his head  where Ethan doesn’t realize and blabs out ..out loud. So he is sitting in class laughing at the voices’ response in his head .  Ethan notices Lena write numbers on her hand “151” and wonders why she did that… It was code for -YOU DORK!

So the  girls continue ragging on Lena the further along the teachers talks and discuss about characters from the book discussion…Ethan is hearing these sharp noises of “SHUT UP” in his head over and over..She’s trying to clear her head of the blabbity girls. Lena finally gets up out of her chair and towards the pencil sharpener by the window to try to escape the girls comments that are continuously making her mad… Ethan starts hearing “STOP IT” “STOP IT” over and over again and louder each time…. Then finally “ENOUGH!” was shouted so loud in his head..Glass from the window just shattered all over the place. Everyone in the class is screaming… Crash! Ahhhhh!! scream scream!

Ethan looks up to see if Lena is ok cause he’s sensitive like that and notices her just standing very still and pale. In his head he hears her say “I didn’t mean it” and Lena storms out of the classroom… Now all the chicks in the class all think that Lena hit the window and broke it and was blaming her for the window.. They were like She was trying to kill us BLAH BLAH…teachers calms the class down and the weather outside started getting BAD!!! muhahahaha!! Here comes the STORM!

Greenbrier 9.12

Greta: so you ready to start this?

Erika: ummmm yea sure

Greta: ok uhhh… so… u start

Erika: uhhh so is this a test?

Greta: hells yeah… stand up in front of the class and tell me your opinion on how the story was like told

Erika: So basically we will start with Ethan running down the hall…Chasing after his woman!!
Erika: This is not his first time seeing people up and run out of school apparently!!!

Greta: I knows! And people are cool with this? Where the hells is the assistant principal and his paddle? OMG! We couldn’t do that!  And he just passes by the bio lab and gives Link “THE LOOK” that dudes must like knows and just totally scores his keys… again!!

Erika: I have actually never seen anyone write LOSER on peeps lockers either… MAYBE there Forehead!! With there thumb and finger!! Shaped like an L!!
Greta: I guess those students are more creative.  They must have glitter and glue and markers and stuff

Erika: OMG I know..its like he runs down the hall and Link was like in AUTO mode and just threw his keys at Ethan!! I was like…UHHHHH HMMMM

Greta: It must be a secret guy code for “hey my woman needs this”
Greta: So our little boy goes running after his woman and winds up at her spooky uncle’s house cus he just KNOWS that shes gonna be there
Greta: and he knock knock knocks on the door but nobody is home
Greta: then he starts messing with these moon things in the wood and pushes on em and BOOM the door opens

Erika: So image this…in the car and the clouds and darkness seems to be back

Greta: are you trying to be deep? LOL

Erika: of course!!
Erika: but also you mention the door!!! ummm who would just go and start pushing on things
Erika: Then OMG that black wolf or dog pet!!
Erika: Staring at him
Erika: but he also notices like the stairs and the furniture was like BRAND new! like the IKEA truck just dropped a truck load!!

Greta: HAHA!! Ikea!! I was thinking ETHAN ALLEN but Ikea is cooler. That reminds me… we so need to go to one and go all 500 Days of Summer out in that store

Erika: EXACTLY!! We will when your Ass gets here

Greta: So then he’s like “oh noes the bow wow is gonna eat me” and runs like crazy down this path thing that’s like out in the front yard or something and winds up at this crumbly wall thing

Erika: yea…the wall just seemed to come from nowhere and he totally hears her talking to him and SMellls her deliciousness of lemons and rosemary!! and

Greta: I know this other story about this dude that likes to SMELL this chick… but she doesn’t smell like lemons… she smells like strawberries

Erika: so he untwines his way into the garden like thing that had the Lemon trees and vines of Rosemary

Greta: I know… coincidence? I think not muhahahahaha

Erika: and sits next to her

Greta: I think that’s like foreshadowing or something… right?
Greta: And she’s all like … Go away

Erika: yea go away what are you doing here

Greta: And he’s all like “I was uber worried about you. You ok?”
Erika: Why did you follow me….nobody likes me…nobody wants me BOOOHOOO SOB STORY
Greta: I knows!!! And he’s all like “hey baby! I think we dig each other and I want to dig you and you know you’re my dream girl. Just admit it”
Erika: yea so then he really starts to dig with his hand and woah a locket appears
Greta: No way dude!! Your skipping ahead…. What about the whirly cloud… she’s like fluttering her hand around trying to be all artist emo and this cloudy cloud is like spinning with her hand and then it ends up in the shape of a moon then like an etch-a-sketch she waves it away
Erika: oh yea!!! That was way AWESOME!!! she made it swirl and then it had a circle in it and the she like wiped it away!!!
Greta: I was kinda jealous… I wish that I could do that. I want to be able to control nature.
Erika: yea me too!! reminds me of some commercial!!
Erika: with coffee or tea!! with the steam…… BLANK
Erika: it made a heart!!
Greta: So THEN… Ethan’s all like I wanna touch you or something… I think he wants to touch her… so he like grabs onto that rock thing that they happen to be lying on and he touches this hard thing and he’s all like “hey, whats this” and he touches Lena and BOOM they’re in the land of the civil war
Erika: yea and they could smell smoke
Erika: and everything around them was up in flames
Erika: all the surrounding plantations
Erika: everything was burning and even these lemon trees…
Greta: And there’s this chick named Genevieve watching her mom’s lemon trees (gasp) burn down
Greta: I had to figure out how to spell it
Erika: lol lets call her Gene!
Greta: So, G’s mamma was the one who grew the trees. She uber loved them and her Daddy bought her 2 trees over in Ga and she planted them in Sc

Erika: the yea like from Savannah?

Greta: She had like a green thumb so her Daddy bought her 28 more trees and the neighbor chicks were jealous and wanted their own trees but they couldn’t make them grow because they didn’t have the lemon skills that her mamma had
Greta: yeah I think Savannah

Erika: yea funny how all the neighbor chicks couldn’t get their lemon trees to grow!!! but Gene got hers to grow! but she took really good care of them by covering them up with cotton blankets and shit like that!
Erika: She kissed her trees and hugged them everyday!!

Greta: tree hugging hippy

Erika: they were her babies

Greta: she petted them daily

Erika: but what about the rosemary vines?

Greta: oh yeah… were they there?
Greta: They were there before they went to the land of oz
Erika: I don’t think they mention it…
Greta: I don’t either… they mention it when Ethan is trying to get to his woman in the real world
Erika: see these rosemary vines so make me think that they are like Ivy Vines…
Greta: there were ivy vines on the Ravenwood house
Erika: yea like my moms house!!!
Erika: AWESOME!! My mom loved them dang vines!!
Erika: ok so yea matrix shit is going on now!! and then when its done…they check out the locket even better, and find out OMG that’s my birthday!!
Erika: Lena’s B day
Erika: feb 11th?
Greta: 2-11-1865
Greta: OH OH OH!! And Ethan’s initials
Erika: LMAO
Erika: Partial
Greta: ECW & GKD
Erika: Ethan is ELW
Erika: so they both think this is weird.. I see it as a quinkydink
Greta: And Ethan’s like “HEY” Let’s touch that locket again… I wanna see if we go back
Erika: yea and it didnt work!! BUMMER
Erika: So then Lena was like I gotta go
Greta: Yeah… and she’s like DON’T FOLLOW ME
Erika: and Ethan was like no don’t go…Puts hand on shoulder!!!
Greta: and Ethan is all like “BUT I LOVE YOU AND YOU SMELL AND WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS”
Erika: You strong FRAGILE GIRL
Erika: and OMG the numbers on her hand!!!!! 151….She spilled it to him!! because he sooo wanted to know what the numbers meant
Erika: its the days left till her birthday!!!!
Greta: So, yeah…. she soo wanted ETHAN to know what the numbers meant… Do you think she was hinting for a gifty?
Erika: ummm maybe a special party to feel uber special!
Greta: that was her secret code for “hey baby… I’m gonna play hard to get and you’re gonna want me later. Well, you already want me now but I’m gonna play mysterious stranger and then you’ll want me even more”
Greta: I think Lena wants him… she just doesn’t want to admit it….. OUT LOUD… say it hahaha!! say it!!!
Erika: So …hey baby you hear me talking to ya in your head…. i know you want me!!
Greta: I know… what was that all about… they were like having conversations inside their brainz… and no one is freakin?  I’d be a little freakin
Erika: its freaky to know this because even the song…he comes near her and the music plays??….or I can’t find my bitch..play your music so I can find you!! its called Hide and go seek music action!
Greta: lmfao!!!!!
Greta: that’s her GPS
Erika: yea…don’t need numbers for that!! just some tunes
Greta: she’s got a musical one.. or that’s like the  jingle bell u put on ur cats collar
Erika: is she turning the music box behind his ass to make him think its in his head! that’s a good way to fuck with a guy!!!
Erika: oops I said FUCK
Erika: can I say that
Greta: LMAO!!! I just spit on my lapy
Greta: I think you can say FUCK
Greta: So let’s wrap this SHIT up
Greta: so, Lena reminds the boy that she turns 16 in 151 days and that she’s no good for him and he’s all like yeah you are and she’s all like “baby I’m Deep
Greta: and then leaves
Greta: and ethan is standing there in that garden thing
Erika: Yea she has way to much DRAMA and says BACK OFF
Greta: we should probably somewhere mention that they were at Greenbrier not Ravenwood when they found that locket… that’s probably important
Erika: oh yea!! So they were at Greenbrier when they found the locket!!
Greta: yeah you dork hahaha! u knew that
Greta: pay attention smack smack
Erika: Smackings are awesome
Greta: i know I enjoy smacking you
Erika: ok so It ended with a “stay away from me”…..but this made him wanting more of her
Erika: THE END
Erika: lol
Erika: I love this abuse from Greta!!

The Sisters 9.12

My my my my! When will Ethan learn? You can’t keep secrets in a small town. Of course Amma found out that Ethan ditched school… again!! And she has to hear all the juicy gossip from her sworn enemies from the prissy prisses of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and Link’s Mom.Wow such nosey people… dang cant keep secrets..How the heck did we not get caught on all our sneekin secrets  we did around my neighborhood!!! HA HA!! I even had a guy jump out of my 2nd story bedroom window, with holly bushes on the ground!!! We kicked ASS Greta!!

Ethan figures he probably shouldn’t tell Amma the truth because that might just send him to the loony bin so instead he talks about how the preppies were picking on Lena and how it was a good little boy thing to do to defend her. WUSSY

Amma’s not buying any of it and wants to smackity smack the boy. Smack Smack Smack!!!

Ethan goes into how he just wanted to make sure that everything was coolsville with Lena after the window busted and then he shows her the locket that they found and Amma nearly has a cow. Dude She had more than a cow!! She had a Longhorn! She runs around and grabs some goodies (all the while Ethan is following her when he should be in the kitchen) and makes him wrap the locket up in a handkerchief, drops it into a leather pouch, sprinkles in some black powder (I really want to know what the powder was!) (I honestly think it was charcoal to absorb all the bad things), then binds it all up with some twine. Then Amma tells Ethan he can’t play with Lena anymore and to go bury that locket in the ground from where he found it.

Any girlies know what Amma is telling Ethan to do? I know… but I don’t want to wreck it for ya 😉 So, I’m gonna keep my yapper shut!! I smell a mystery a brewing!!

IT’s a Witchery conspiracy!!

Instead of following Amma’s directions, Ethan decides that to keep the locket and just drives around for a while until he figures the coast is clear and he could go back inside.

The next morning, Ethan wakes up and snags the locket out of the shoebox where he had cleverly hidden the mystery locket and has to go visit with his crazy (Ethan’s word not mine) great-aunts – Mercy, Prudence, and Grace – also known as The Sisters.

Now, to me, the SISTERS reminded me of the SISTERS in “The Secret Life of Bees”. They all have names that mean stuff (In the BEES their names were months), they all live together, and each one has a distinctive personality.You know why????…because its a southern thang!!

Ethan gets to The Sisters’ house after having to bypass one of Amma’s hoodoo (that’s right kids! I’m getting a sinking sensation that Amma might be into Hoodoo. I’m not 100% but it really kinda sorta feels that way) charms and finds out that there is an E-mergency. Apparently, their Yorkie got a good couple of whacks (Damn Animal Abuse Case!!) in from Grace because she wasn’t wearing her specs and must have mistook the poor puppy duppy as a rather large dust bunny. Well, if you know anything about old southern women it’s that they really lovers to over exaggerate every little thing. So, the Sisters are a hootin’ and a hollerin’ that their doggy is about to go to Heaven when in reality the poor thing just broke its leg.

The gang gets back from the dude that runs the local feed store (who posed as their vet since it was just a bum leg) and The Sister’s housekeeper, Thelma is there. Thelma is pretty much their babysitter who Ethan’s dad hired back one day when Grace almost burned the house down. The Sisters race in to spread the gossip about today’s adventure and Ethan is uber bored with it all and starts to fiddle with the locket in his pocket. Thelma is all pretty pretty shiny shiny with it and so Ethan tells her where he found it at. Oh dear TACO BELL DOG!! Are you mad boy?!

The Sisters notice that the handkerchief that the locket is wrapped up in bears the same sign as an old tarot card reader with the same last name as AMMA’s. (GASP!)

The aunts pass the locket around and Ethan finds out that the date on the back of the locket isn’t just Lena’s birthday but is also the exact same date that the Union burnt most of the town…. the part that survived was Ravenwood. (gasp gasp gasp!!) Yea of all places..

That’s when we learn that funny things happen out at that Ravenwood house…. A man in a tall hat walks around from time to time, a brother winds up missing, a wolf has been seen there. WOLF? Like the same wolf that Ethan saw? Maybe maybe!! Yea exactly!! Freaky Freaky

Ethan also learns that -dot dot dot – the set of initials -ECW- stand for Ethan’s Great x5 uncle – Ethan Carter Wate. Come on you type all those greats!! Great Great Great Great Great!!! No.  Shut-up dude! You keep interrupting me.  ANYWAYS…..

I was Shocked! This just happens to be an uncle whose had his name taken off the family tree (in my household it would have been the Bible) all because he decided War! What is it good for? And stopped fighting for his southern brothers. I am singing…”WAR..What is it good for..Absolutely Nothing!”

Ethan asks about the other set of initials -GDK- but the Sisters weren’t really giving Ethan the information that he’s hunting for. “I won’t tell you my dirty little secrets”!!! I changed the song for ya…

Since its Saturday night that means that Ethan needs to drive the Sisters to Church. ON A Saturday Night???………..

Are any of you from the south? Nope..Well YES.. Ok I am Well, let me tell ya. Peoples down here go to Church A LOT! That is NOT an exaggeration! From where I’m from half the town rolls up their doors at noon on Wednesdays because that’s a church night. Even the Post Office closes! Yes it does so if you got shit to buy that day..you better do it early!! Or else your screwed..Unless of course you have a big ass Wal-Mart

While Ethan is listening to the sermon and the room is Thanking the Baby Jesus, Ethan starts zoning out and flipping the locket mindlessly between his fingers between his legs HA HA HA. That’s when he hears her. Hears who? — LENA!

Ethan. Stop. You Don’t know what you’re doing.
Lena was in my head.
Put it away!
The room started to disappear around me and I could feel Lena’s fingers grasping mine, as she was there beside me —

Turns out they’re staring at the past. Is it real? Could it possibly be the story that the Sisters just shared with Ethan?

Genevieve is watching Greenbrier burn to the ground. while those Yankee dogs are just looting the house when all of the sudden… OH HALE YES! — Ethan comes up behind Genevieve and whipsers into her ear all smooth talking gentleman-like. (Can you say confederate swoon ala swoon!!??!!) SWOON ME BABY

They have an uber intense swoon swoon moment full of hand descriptions and longing stares and “Darlin’ I missed you.” Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!! I’ll never leave you again… I will just leave my soldiers behind because I am a coward!!

Then Genevieve’s heart is broken and she pretty much has a Scarlett O’Hara moment when she learns that her family has been eaten alive by the flames that was taking over Greenbrier. There’s nothing to go home to….. but Ethan’s there. — both of them AWWWW SWOONDIGITY SWOOOONDOUBT………..

Hmmmm… I think we’re done my pet.  That’s our post.  It was awesome that you stopped by and helped me with it.  Now go home and start reading up for next week.

Discussion Questions

1.  Now that you’ve seen mine and Fragile’s Lena who is yours?  (BTW our Lena is played by Emily Browing)

2. Did the town that you grew up in have any haunted houses and or places?  The town that my Pet and I grew up in had a haunted bridge.

3. Are we starting to see the supernatural turn in the story? Or is it just me?

4. Where do you think Genevieve’s story is going? Do you get a feeling that it might be more than a dream?

5. Why do you think the locket frightened Amma?

Thanks for stopping by!  Remember to come back on Thursday to see the awesome recap!

FYI – All pics were taken from mine and Erika’s hometown of Russellville, Alabama.

~ by erikasbuddy on 31 January 2010.