I Was Right! (IR 4 - #6, April 10 - July 14)

As it turns out, I was right about my predictions that Alice would start to use drugs. However, I wasn't thinking that Alice would find a new friend, but she did! When Alice goes to stays with her grandparents for the summer, she finds a girl that she gets along with on her grandparent's block. Her name's Beth and she seemed to be a very good influence on Alice. Beth's Jewish and Alice becomes extremely fascinated by this because she's never really met or had an in-depth conversation with anyone who was Jewish before. Alice and Beth really hit it off, and I definitely wasn't expecting this at all. I thought that it would just be Alice and Greta sticking together and Alice wouldn't branch out, but she did. She didn't really branch out that much considering she only made one friend, but Beth seems to be much of a better friend then Greta. Beth and Alice decide to go on a double date with these two Jewish boys, but the guy Alice goes with turns out to be kind of a creep. This really bothered me because I was kind of excited for Alice to find a new guy and it definitely would have been a good suprise if she did! However, that isn't the case. In the end, Beth ends up going to a Jewish summer camp and both the girls are extremely upset because they've really grown close. One day in town, Alice makes a new friend Jill. This is also another unpredicted thing. I really didn't think Alice would meet anyone else or want to hang out with anyone else for that matter because of all her insecurities. Jill's really popular and pretty and she invites Alice to a party. At the party, someone slips some LSD into Alice's soda and she trips. I knew that Alice would start doing drugs. After she gets home she's extremely freaked out about what happened but she decides that she wants to try marijuana. I was right with my prediction. Alice is going to start to turn to drugs as a form of entertainment and self-destructiveness. She was mad at herself for doing LSD, but now she wants to try marijuana. She knows it's wrong but she still wants to try it...it's self destructive behavior.