Rules: Week of 1/27/14

Pages: 20-100                                    SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!
Prompt: Summarize what you just read.

     So, much has happened since I last blogged on this book, so let me refresh you!

Catherine- The main character, and the older sister of David.
David- Has autism, the younger brother of Catherine.

     It was a Thursday summer afternoon, and like all Thursday afternoons, it was time for David to go to occupational therapy. Catherine had decided to go along, because she had nothing better to do, and she enjoyed the time with her mother. When they got there, Catherine had wanted to go to the park, or to one of the shops or restaurants nearbywith her mom, but her mother said she had to stay and make sure everything would be fine with David. So, Catherine decided she would draw. She wasn't really sure what to draw, but she eventually decided she would would draw another patient waiting to go into therapy. His name was Jason, and he was in a wheel chair, unable to move or talk. Catherine began to draw, and hoped she wasn't staring too obviously, but she was and Jason's mother got very upset. Though, Jason didn't mind. In fact he liked Catherine's drawings, he just didn't like drawings specifically of him. Though, once Jason's mom yelled at Catherine, she just decided to draw something else, and when Jason was on his way out, he glanced at Catherine's drawing, and his mother said that he liked what she was drawing, and so Catherine decided to give her drawing to him, because she felt bad about the whole staring incident. He got the picture, and soon after Jason left, so did Catherine, her Mom, and David.

     A new family was moving in next door to the Catherine's family, and she was super excited. Her friend was away for the summer, and she needed someone to hang out with, and honestly someone to be with after the whole staring situation. Though, as soon as the neighbors were moved in, and Catherine had the courage to go and speak to them, the girl that would be living there was away at her Dad's house for the weekend. Catherine was upset, but still was okay with it. She was still a bit nervous that David would embarrass her in front of the new family next door.

     The next week at David's occupational therapy session, Catherine decided to go again. This time, she saw Jason with his book filled with words. He pointed to the words he wanted to use because he couldn't literally say them. His mom said that he wanted to put Catherine in the book as a sort of "Thank You" for the picture she gave him. Though, with every word, jason's mom would draw a picture. For Catherine's picture, she offered to draw the picture of herself. Catherine loved art, and she was kind of excited to draw for Jason's book! She later offered to create some more word cards with pictures for Jason. She created more interesting words, and the book began to seem more fun, and colorful. Jason was so happy, and him and Catherine began to become friends. Catherine really enjoyed Jason, and Jason enjoyed Catherine. Catherine would tell him about her guinea pigs, and David, and his rules, and everything that was going on. Eventually they became pretty close, and Catherine decided that she wanted to make more word cards for Jason, so she told his mom that she would like the rest of his cards to be able to create more words for Jason to use.

     One day when Catherine was working on her cards for Jason, and babysitting David, the new girl next door finally decided to pay a visit to Catherine; her name was Kristi. It was a bit unexpected, and Catherine was kind of embarrassed of their hectic household, and her embarrassing brother. They began to converse about life, and Catherine began to explain why she was making the cards, but she simply said they were for a friend, so Kristi got the wrong idea, and thought that Catherine liked the boy she was making the cards for. They eventually walked over to Kristi's house and she began to explain about how there was going to be a summer dance at the community center where she volunteered at, and she thought that Catherine should bring Jason to the dance. Catherine tried to explain that her and Jason were not an item, when she got sidetracked by the thought of volunteering. She asked Kristi about her volunteering, and Kristi explained how she thought that it would be a once a week type thing but they expected her to come everyday, and between that, and traveling to her Dad's house every weekend, she barely had time to unpack. When Catherine heard that Kristi traveled to her Dad's house every weekend, she figured her parents were divorced, and tried to relate, because one of her best friends parents were divorced. Though, Kristi got defensive, and explained they were just separated, and were taking a break, and tried to change the subject. Then they hung out, and Catherine realized, and liked how easy it was to be at a friend's house, and not have to worry about her Autistic brother ruining something, and that's where I left off. It's kind of at a weird spot, and I wonder what's going to happen next.