Everything always seems to go wrong for Melinda. First off, Melinda looks back at old memories with her friends on Halloween. It's Halloween night and for the first time in a long time she's spending it alone. "Rachelle is going to party thrown by one of the exchange students' host families." She's heard Rachelle talk about it. From the start she knew it'd have to be a miracle is she got invited. "I knew I wouldn't get an invitation. I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation." She decides to stay home instead and read a book. Secondly, Melinda is a great math student. She exceed in all the topics that math includes but in front of the rest of her class, she "doesn't" know anything. Her teacher, Mr.Stetman, calls on her but she just smile and nods no. He makes her go to the board and then calls Rachelle to help her. After Rachelle shows her how to do it she heads back to her seat, but not before nudging Melinda and entertaining the class. Finally this part of the story made me feel a bit of sympathy for Melinda. Well not a bit but A LOT of sympathy. When she was in Spanish class a class jerk decided to use their new word against her. They called her "Me-no-Linda". You see, Linda means pretty in Spanish. So obviously we see what they meant by "no-Linda" Melinda states, "They called me Me-no-Linda for the rest of the of the period." It hurt her but she just tried to shrug it off. Will this catch up to her in the future and effect her?
Melinda always flashes back to old times with her friends. But each memory has a smaller memory with Rachelle. In my reading this week she recalls Halloween a year before. She remembers how she and all her friends were witches. But she also remembers how Rachelle and her were the best dressed. "We had used baby-sitting money to rent black satin capes lines in red." This showed that she missed Rachelle. She misses the memories they had together. It also shows just how close they use to be. She had a special bond with all her friends. Even if it was a small bond. She loved moments were they all felt a tight connection. "The wind kicked up, skimming clouds over the surface of the full moon, which was hung just to make us feel strong and powerful." She misses feeling strong. She doesn't want to feel alone.
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