Evermore, chapter five
In which we have a lunch scene with Haven and Miles just being wonderful.
So we start this chapter with Damen sitting with Haven and Miles at lunch and Ever just dreading sitting there. They start sharing fake backstories and I have something to say:
"I was raised by a drag queen and a romance novelist,"
Miles says, reaching over to steal a candy corn off the top of
Haven's pre-Halloween cupcake.
"Sorry, that wasn't you, sweetie, that was Chandler on
Friends."
I turned around after reading that and asked my almost 14 year old sister if she’s ever heard of a show called friends. She said no and she only watches cable. Now, I’m sure there are still teenagers who remember Friends, but with the show being over and done for years now less and less people know about it. I find that the big sitcom now is The Big Bang Theory.
And it’s not just this, at almost every page there seems to be a name drop of music bands, clothes, electronics and such. It’s like the author is overcompensating and in doing so it detracts for the story and dates the book. It kinda reminds me to Disaster movie and all those movies that are lame pop reference jokes. Less is always more. It’s better to name a brand at some point or a name that actually means something and you feel 10 years from now will still be understood than just namebrand anything and everything. Moving on.
Haven tells her story and I have no patience with this girl. Damen follows up he’s lived in Italy, France, England, Spain and a whole lot of other places while drinking an “iridescent red liquid.” I’m kind of wondering if that’s the word she wanted to use for that. And even if it was the character of Ever up ‘til now didn’t really seemed like the kind to say something like that. That’s something Bella would say.
The conversation then turns to Ever and the fact that she comes from Oregon. Damen turns the sleaze meter up as he asks Ever how did she end up there. Haven takes this opportunity to turn the bitch o meter up and sticks to Damen like hot glue. Ever in turn just goes on to talk about the pain of just thinking about moving this place. Damen stares at her and she drops the water.
Falling so fast, I can't even
stop it, all I can do is wait for the splash. But before it can
even hit the table, Damen's already caught it and returned it
to me. And I sit there, staring at the bottle and avoiding his
gaze, wondering if I'm the only one who noticed how he
moved so fast he actually blurred.
Subtle, Damen. Go do that with an apple next you idiot. These hiden supernatural creatures sure suck at being inconspicuous, don’t they? Then again Ever’s reaction…
Then Miles asks about New York, and Haven scoots so close
she's practically sitting on Damen's lap, and I take a deep
breath, finish my lunch, and convince myself I imagined it.
I love how blase Ever is about the man who has no aura, drinks weird juice and has super speed. Because surely that isn't;’t important at all when you’re as hot as Damen. She’s lucky she’s the star of a romance driven supernatural YA novel, otherwise she would be the first to go.
Damen then leaves and Ever pitches a fit at her friends for inviting him. Miles tells her to relax before announcing they also invited him to her house so they can monopolize his time. Haven even shouts:
"My meeting's over by seven, which gives me just enough time
to go home and change. And, by the way, I call dibs on
sitting next to Damen in the Jacuzzi!"
Haven, stop calling dibs on the guy. If you want to do something just do it. Also, he does have two sides, they can sit beside him if they want. Although all this attention is bound to scare the guy away. But she doesn’t care as she leaves giving Ever the opportunity to explain her friend’s actions.
You see Haven is an attention whore apparently and is in need of a fix. Sadly her family is indulging her by ignoring her new goth style. So the girl in turn goes to twelve step meeting lying to everyone in there who actually need her just to get her fix. This isn’t so bad except “Today’s meeting” is for over eaters and Haven is five foot four with “the body of a musical box ballerina”. I’m pretty sure her being there is not helpful.
Ever then keeps talking about how her previous friends withdrew from her a bit after the accident and so she imposed this self inflicted exclusion from her cliques to join her true friends… who force her to do things for their amusement, don’t take into account her feelings if it benefits them and gets one being a jealous harpy. I’m not sure this was an upgrade sweetie. But Ever still believes this and says:
And that's exactly why I need to stay away from Damen
because his ability to charge my skin with his touch, and
silence the world with his voice is a dangerous temptation I
cannot indulge.
I won't risk hurting my friendship with Haven.
And I can't risk getting too close.
Oh, noes, now they won’t be together forever! (eyeroll) This is chapter five and this thing has 27. Let's see how long that last. I say they do in 5 chapters more just to take it back just so she can angst and he can grovel, just so he can turn distant and cold and Ever wonders “what’s wrong with me?!”. Then Damn loves her again but then his fangirls in a fit of jealousy unite under Haven, who after all her wishing of being a “true goth” under her misguided notions turned to Satanism. Ever then has an epic battle against her once friend and fight to get her man back for she is the beautiful soldier of love and justice sailor-no, wait, wrong tangent.
Anyway, tomorrow is The host, if it all goes well. For now this is Shaolina signing out.
(Chapter six)