Reading Response #3: One Moment

        

         Talk about plot twists. Throughout the whole book you were lead to believe that Joey was the model boyfriend and that him and Maggie were beyond happy together. In the last post I mentioned that the night before Joey died, he and Adam were in a huge fight. The fight turned out to be about how Joey was cheating on Maggie, and had been for the past year of their relationship. Adam couldn't stand back any longer and watch as Joey not only got Maggie, the girl he so hopelessly wanted, but another one too. 

         The real shocker though was when Maggie finally regained her memory of Joey's death. Up until now she could just remember running towards the cliff and not jumping. Now, Maggie realizes that right before they were supposed to jump she saw a strand of beads on his wrist and everything clicked. She knew the beads belonged to her best friend Shannon. It was enough to stop her dead in her tracks, the force of her stop threw Joey off balance as he fell backwards over the cliff. His last words, "Mags, let me exp-" This quote means so much. The truth was finally out. Joey knew he was wrong, but the last look on his face, the look Maggie had to live with was fear. The fear wasn't because he was falling, it was because he knew they were through. 

         The song above is about how things are supposed to happen. No, Joey should not have died, but things do happen. Something beautiful happened,  Adam finally got his chance with his girl, Maggie. This book was a hopeless romance. The author did so good convincing us that Joey was good, but in all reality he wasn't at all who he was supposed to be. His death wasn't just one persons fault, but many.