Sweet Valley Twins Special Edition-Jessica's First Kiss-Chapters 1-6
This is my first book recap. So I picked SVT which is what I got as a kid along with the Baby-Sitters Club. I purchased this book and didn't read it initially as a kid so its fun to do this recap as I am reading it.
On to the cover:
Its from Amazon so it looks bad. Liz and Dennis are happy while Jessica and Todd are pissed. Simply put. And you may notice that Jessica's outfit is not stylish. I dressed better than Jessica did in the 6th grade. Seriously.
Jessica and Lila are talking about the camping trip at Bannerman’s Estate. Jessica is excited about it and knows it will be fun and wasn’t thinking about the fact that she doesn't have to use her supplies…until Lila mentioned her meaning of estate, like Fowler Estate. Jessica tires to correct her but Lila insists that they will have Jacuzzis tanning salons and all types of luxuries. Jessica says her family was at an estate like the one they are going to before. Elizabeth is mentioned and they go into the alike/different stuff like how Jessica is Miss. Unicorn Popularity while Liz is semi-social loser but they are still each other’s best friends. Lila convinces Jessica some more until she buys into it since Lila knows so much about camping with her spoiled ass and they agree that they are going to have a great time. I can’t wait for the rude awakening, I really can’t.
Upstairs, Elizabeth is writing a poem about the trip and how she wants it to happen. She is trying to rhyme estate and winds up rhyming it with great. Why? Because she’s St. Liz and full of self-awesomeness (note the sarcasm.) She goes to write Todd in but she is afraid that her older brother Steven will see it and tease her about it. She doesn’t want to risk it but she decides to put Todd in. Then she hears a noise thinks its Steven and decides to erase a line she wrote about Todd and writes in “a special guy” because with siblings like Steven and Jessica she doesn’t want to be too careful. I can’t believe this is an issue. I wasn’t thinking like this in 6th grade. I really wasn’t.
So Lila and Jess run upstairs to tell Liz about the wonderful estate when Liz bashes their dreams but not without a fight. Lila accuses Liz of being jealous of her for not going to a real estate. Jess sides with Lila even though Jess knows Lila’s track record of being Miss-Know-It -All is 0 for 0 and Liz’s is…off the fucking charts. Miss-Know-It…I mean Liz pulls out a packet that the students got at the assembly that Jess and Lila didn’t read and they read the part when “heavy storms would cause the tent to leak a little bit” and they freak out. WERE GONNA GET WET!!! And they can’t bring electronics because there are no plugs. OMG! WTF! DIE, DIE, DIE!!!! Please. Lila wants to stay home but her daddy and some lady named Mrs. Pervis are going to be out of town. Liz wanted to be sympathetic towards Lila and she also wanted to tell her to grow the fuck up. Liz chooses to cheer Lila up about going to camp but it wasn’t working since Lila wanted to bring her rich girl material items. Just them Jessica finds Liz’s poem and reads it aloud proving what a geek she is. She reads the part she wrote about “a special guy.” Jess wonders who it is but Lila says it’s probably about boring Todd Wilkins. Liz gets pissed and kicks Jess and Lila out. Liz reads the poem and thought it wasn’t such a bad poem and daydreams about Todd and her sitting under the stars, holding hands, kissing, having sex…oops not until SVU. It only goes to the kissing, but if SVH was made today, Jamie Lynne Spears will play St. Liz who gets knocked up.
Jess is in the bathroom and remembers the line Liz wrote about Todd. She has a boyfriend named Aaron Dallas…sort of. She imagines kissing him and realizes she never had a kiss before. Liz had her kiss first. Which is wild because Miss Unicorn Popularity would have had a kiss LONG before Miss Know It All. But in the series of books in this series, Liz gets kissed by Todd before Jessica gets kissed by who ever kisses her at the end of this book. I think that Jessica should have gotten her first kiss before Liz but I don’t think she was as loose as she was in SVH…or maybe she was, I haven’t read the SVT series that well.
So Winston is being an annoying 6th grader talking like a bad Frenchman about how scary the estate is going to be. Liz is annoyed and decides to sing a song along with Amy and Todd. The Unicorn Prez, Janet, yells that she is trying to sleep but Liz sings louder. Get that bitch, Liz. Then she talks to Todd about how if they find a nice path to walk down and a rock to eat food on that they will tell each other. Boom-Chicki-Wow-Wow. But the conversation was filled with um’s, dashes, and so’s so it was more awkward than wow-wow. Amy gets the bus to sing another song and Liz and Todd join in. That bitch Janet tells them to shut up.
Janet acts like a total bitch to Jessica since Liz is singing making Jessica wish Liz wasn’t her sister. Then her “friends” basically blame her for making the song start and force her to sabotage the song. So Jessica goes up to Liz and the others as they were singing and told them what sound would a penguin make. Morgan Freeman, anybody? They get stumped until Todd mentioned the Pittsburgh Penguins and they say “GOAL!!!” God Todd represents PA! Glad he didn’t say the Philadelphia Flyers, they suck. I should know I’m from Philly and the Philadelphia Phantoms are way better, not that I’m into sports. Bitch-net…err…Janet says nice job to Jessica. Of course, she’s being sarcastic. Then Ellen Riteman responds with the same exact words as Janet. Who is Ellen anyway? I have the Haunted Burial Ground book and remember reading her name in the book description in the back of the book and saying, I never heard of her. I don’t think she goes into SVH. Good, because I don’t like her. She is a follower and I don’t like her. I’m glad the Unicorns are gone, they just annoy me…I might have to break this book into a few parts. Then Aaron Dallas makes a comment about bears, Jessica has her wet dream about kissing Aaron and decides to ignore her Skank-icorn friends and go have the same conversation as Todd and Liz. Well Aaron want to talk about bears and how he want to see one. Typical 7th grade behavior. Jessica wants to walk on a private trail. Aaron says they wouldn’t be allowed on it because it’s private. HA! She tries to make it clear but Aaron think she means she and him want to see bears on a trail. Then she makes it romantic and he REJECTS HER!!! Jessica has her thought about how people are giving her a hard time. Ellen gives her an attitude as she goes back to her bus seat. Yeah, I don’t like Ellen. Jessica starts to get her sociopath thoughts as highlighted in this paragraph:
I hope one of those Kodiak bears eats him alive, she thought, feeling only a little better. She could just see Aaron in a boxing ring with the biggest bear in the world, Aaron screaming as the bear came at him with a gleam in its eye, Aaron lying on the floor screaming for mercy as the bear descended on him with open claws and hungry jaws, roaring as it tore apart his tender flesh…
At least until he agreed that maybe it would be pretty cool to go on a long walk in the woods with Jessica.
GIVE ME A S-O-C-I-O-P-A-T-H. What’s that spell?
Liz is one with her thoughts and nature as she continues to think about her and Todd walking down the woods as she falls asleep in her first night in the woods…
*reads part about the Unicorns bitching about their tent* Its too annoying to recap.
Ah, here’s something new the boy’s point of view of the first night. So Aaron pulls a prank saying that there is a bear and the boys are scared. Winston, in his polka dot boxers, runs out of the tent through the mosquito net. Bruce slashes the tent by accident with his pocketknife and Aaron manages to get out while the boys are stuck in there. We are introduced to Dennis Asher, a new guy in Sweet Valley. Dennis saw Aaron smirking and he realizes that he made up the bear alert and tells him to tell the boys that, as Aaron put it, “jumped to conclusions.” He had fun despite the fact he could get into serious trouble.
Jessica has a dream that she is being tortured by a mysterious voice on a bed of nails with mosquitoes. Then the popular club complains about things and they go back to sleep until a guy wakes them up. Jessica can hear him and she decides to wake up…in a few minutes.
Liz, Amy, and Todd are having breakfast. Liz looks breathtaking because she woke up early, took a shower, and brushed her hair. Later, she sticks her nosy nose in the tent of the Unicorns and tells them she missed breakfast and the first lesson and they woke up in time for the second lesson. The bitch-fest all refuse to go saying that they aren’t missing much. They notice Liz looking wonderful and realize they look like crap. They also refuse to take a shower in that sulfur filled water. Well I rather be covered in sulfur filled water then not take a shower. Don’t you agree?
Todd and Liz decide to go on a nature walk. Aaron tells Jessica about what happened in the boy’s tent last night. Saying things like Bruce running around with a knife thus freaking out Jessica. I am already freaked out by high school Bruce more than knife wielding Bruce. And he also blames Dennis for the bear thing instead of saying it was him. Jerk. Aaron gets Jessica scared over a nonexistent bear and Jessica says she never wants to see him again. That sets up the plot point. Todd and Liz talk about 4 leave clovers…boring. Jessica gets an eyeful of Dennis. She finds him cute (stuff like her heart skipping a beat come up) and realizes her looks are keeping her from getting to him.
I'm tired of doing it for now so I'll have part 2 up soon
I pieced together what Liz's poem is from between chapters 1 and 2 so here it is:
Liz's Poem
We're going camping at Bannerman's Estate
And I know it will be great
We'll all go canoeing, and we'll sit out in the breeze
We'll have campfires and marshmallows, and if it rains we'll freeze
We'll be sleeping out in tents, underneath the stars
We'll be walking, maybe running and we'll never ride in cars
We'll see deer and moose and eagles and maybe a bear
And if it rains once or twice, we won't even care
And best of all, the very cutest guy I know
Will walk with me beneath the stars and we'll walk slow
On to the cover:
Its from Amazon so it looks bad. Liz and Dennis are happy while Jessica and Todd are pissed. Simply put. And you may notice that Jessica's outfit is not stylish. I dressed better than Jessica did in the 6th grade. Seriously.
Jessica and Lila are talking about the camping trip at Bannerman’s Estate. Jessica is excited about it and knows it will be fun and wasn’t thinking about the fact that she doesn't have to use her supplies…until Lila mentioned her meaning of estate, like Fowler Estate. Jessica tires to correct her but Lila insists that they will have Jacuzzis tanning salons and all types of luxuries. Jessica says her family was at an estate like the one they are going to before. Elizabeth is mentioned and they go into the alike/different stuff like how Jessica is Miss. Unicorn Popularity while Liz is semi-social loser but they are still each other’s best friends. Lila convinces Jessica some more until she buys into it since Lila knows so much about camping with her spoiled ass and they agree that they are going to have a great time. I can’t wait for the rude awakening, I really can’t.
Upstairs, Elizabeth is writing a poem about the trip and how she wants it to happen. She is trying to rhyme estate and winds up rhyming it with great. Why? Because she’s St. Liz and full of self-awesomeness (note the sarcasm.) She goes to write Todd in but she is afraid that her older brother Steven will see it and tease her about it. She doesn’t want to risk it but she decides to put Todd in. Then she hears a noise thinks its Steven and decides to erase a line she wrote about Todd and writes in “a special guy” because with siblings like Steven and Jessica she doesn’t want to be too careful. I can’t believe this is an issue. I wasn’t thinking like this in 6th grade. I really wasn’t.
So Lila and Jess run upstairs to tell Liz about the wonderful estate when Liz bashes their dreams but not without a fight. Lila accuses Liz of being jealous of her for not going to a real estate. Jess sides with Lila even though Jess knows Lila’s track record of being Miss-Know-It -All is 0 for 0 and Liz’s is…off the fucking charts. Miss-Know-It…I mean Liz pulls out a packet that the students got at the assembly that Jess and Lila didn’t read and they read the part when “heavy storms would cause the tent to leak a little bit” and they freak out. WERE GONNA GET WET!!! And they can’t bring electronics because there are no plugs. OMG! WTF! DIE, DIE, DIE!!!! Please. Lila wants to stay home but her daddy and some lady named Mrs. Pervis are going to be out of town. Liz wanted to be sympathetic towards Lila and she also wanted to tell her to grow the fuck up. Liz chooses to cheer Lila up about going to camp but it wasn’t working since Lila wanted to bring her rich girl material items. Just them Jessica finds Liz’s poem and reads it aloud proving what a geek she is. She reads the part she wrote about “a special guy.” Jess wonders who it is but Lila says it’s probably about boring Todd Wilkins. Liz gets pissed and kicks Jess and Lila out. Liz reads the poem and thought it wasn’t such a bad poem and daydreams about Todd and her sitting under the stars, holding hands, kissing, having sex…oops not until SVU. It only goes to the kissing, but if SVH was made today, Jamie Lynne Spears will play St. Liz who gets knocked up.
Jess is in the bathroom and remembers the line Liz wrote about Todd. She has a boyfriend named Aaron Dallas…sort of. She imagines kissing him and realizes she never had a kiss before. Liz had her kiss first. Which is wild because Miss Unicorn Popularity would have had a kiss LONG before Miss Know It All. But in the series of books in this series, Liz gets kissed by Todd before Jessica gets kissed by who ever kisses her at the end of this book. I think that Jessica should have gotten her first kiss before Liz but I don’t think she was as loose as she was in SVH…or maybe she was, I haven’t read the SVT series that well.
So Winston is being an annoying 6th grader talking like a bad Frenchman about how scary the estate is going to be. Liz is annoyed and decides to sing a song along with Amy and Todd. The Unicorn Prez, Janet, yells that she is trying to sleep but Liz sings louder. Get that bitch, Liz. Then she talks to Todd about how if they find a nice path to walk down and a rock to eat food on that they will tell each other. Boom-Chicki-Wow-Wow. But the conversation was filled with um’s, dashes, and so’s so it was more awkward than wow-wow. Amy gets the bus to sing another song and Liz and Todd join in. That bitch Janet tells them to shut up.
Janet acts like a total bitch to Jessica since Liz is singing making Jessica wish Liz wasn’t her sister. Then her “friends” basically blame her for making the song start and force her to sabotage the song. So Jessica goes up to Liz and the others as they were singing and told them what sound would a penguin make. Morgan Freeman, anybody? They get stumped until Todd mentioned the Pittsburgh Penguins and they say “GOAL!!!” God Todd represents PA! Glad he didn’t say the Philadelphia Flyers, they suck. I should know I’m from Philly and the Philadelphia Phantoms are way better, not that I’m into sports. Bitch-net…err…Janet says nice job to Jessica. Of course, she’s being sarcastic. Then Ellen Riteman responds with the same exact words as Janet. Who is Ellen anyway? I have the Haunted Burial Ground book and remember reading her name in the book description in the back of the book and saying, I never heard of her. I don’t think she goes into SVH. Good, because I don’t like her. She is a follower and I don’t like her. I’m glad the Unicorns are gone, they just annoy me…I might have to break this book into a few parts. Then Aaron Dallas makes a comment about bears, Jessica has her wet dream about kissing Aaron and decides to ignore her Skank-icorn friends and go have the same conversation as Todd and Liz. Well Aaron want to talk about bears and how he want to see one. Typical 7th grade behavior. Jessica wants to walk on a private trail. Aaron says they wouldn’t be allowed on it because it’s private. HA! She tries to make it clear but Aaron think she means she and him want to see bears on a trail. Then she makes it romantic and he REJECTS HER!!! Jessica has her thought about how people are giving her a hard time. Ellen gives her an attitude as she goes back to her bus seat. Yeah, I don’t like Ellen. Jessica starts to get her sociopath thoughts as highlighted in this paragraph:
I hope one of those Kodiak bears eats him alive, she thought, feeling only a little better. She could just see Aaron in a boxing ring with the biggest bear in the world, Aaron screaming as the bear came at him with a gleam in its eye, Aaron lying on the floor screaming for mercy as the bear descended on him with open claws and hungry jaws, roaring as it tore apart his tender flesh…
At least until he agreed that maybe it would be pretty cool to go on a long walk in the woods with Jessica.
GIVE ME A S-O-C-I-O-P-A-T-H. What’s that spell?
Liz is one with her thoughts and nature as she continues to think about her and Todd walking down the woods as she falls asleep in her first night in the woods…
*reads part about the Unicorns bitching about their tent* Its too annoying to recap.
Ah, here’s something new the boy’s point of view of the first night. So Aaron pulls a prank saying that there is a bear and the boys are scared. Winston, in his polka dot boxers, runs out of the tent through the mosquito net. Bruce slashes the tent by accident with his pocketknife and Aaron manages to get out while the boys are stuck in there. We are introduced to Dennis Asher, a new guy in Sweet Valley. Dennis saw Aaron smirking and he realizes that he made up the bear alert and tells him to tell the boys that, as Aaron put it, “jumped to conclusions.” He had fun despite the fact he could get into serious trouble.
Jessica has a dream that she is being tortured by a mysterious voice on a bed of nails with mosquitoes. Then the popular club complains about things and they go back to sleep until a guy wakes them up. Jessica can hear him and she decides to wake up…in a few minutes.
Liz, Amy, and Todd are having breakfast. Liz looks breathtaking because she woke up early, took a shower, and brushed her hair. Later, she sticks her nosy nose in the tent of the Unicorns and tells them she missed breakfast and the first lesson and they woke up in time for the second lesson. The bitch-fest all refuse to go saying that they aren’t missing much. They notice Liz looking wonderful and realize they look like crap. They also refuse to take a shower in that sulfur filled water. Well I rather be covered in sulfur filled water then not take a shower. Don’t you agree?
Todd and Liz decide to go on a nature walk. Aaron tells Jessica about what happened in the boy’s tent last night. Saying things like Bruce running around with a knife thus freaking out Jessica. I am already freaked out by high school Bruce more than knife wielding Bruce. And he also blames Dennis for the bear thing instead of saying it was him. Jerk. Aaron gets Jessica scared over a nonexistent bear and Jessica says she never wants to see him again. That sets up the plot point. Todd and Liz talk about 4 leave clovers…boring. Jessica gets an eyeful of Dennis. She finds him cute (stuff like her heart skipping a beat come up) and realizes her looks are keeping her from getting to him.
I'm tired of doing it for now so I'll have part 2 up soon
I pieced together what Liz's poem is from between chapters 1 and 2 so here it is:
Liz's Poem
We're going camping at Bannerman's Estate
And I know it will be great
We'll all go canoeing, and we'll sit out in the breeze
We'll have campfires and marshmallows, and if it rains we'll freeze
We'll be sleeping out in tents, underneath the stars
We'll be walking, maybe running and we'll never ride in cars
We'll see deer and moose and eagles and maybe a bear
And if it rains once or twice, we won't even care
And best of all, the very cutest guy I know
Will walk with me beneath the stars and we'll walk slow