Someone Like You ( pages 57 - 110 )

Summary
In Someone Like you the plot continues to develop as we learn more about Halley. We continue to observe the change in the relationship between Halley and her mother. Also, we continue to observe as her relationship with Macon Faulkner develops and he asks her to meet him at a party. During the weekend in order to go to the party, she tells her mother she is going to hang out over at Scarlett's place. After convincing Scarlett to come with her disregarding her being sick they drove over to the party. There were boys and girls from their school and drinking. Everyone was all over the place but after looking upstairs and downstairs they could not find Macon. She thought Macon stood her up but then learned that this was not the case. That night while Halley and Scarlett hungout on Halley's porch they saw Macon go over and throw rocks at her window in which she then came over to speak with him. He told her that he was there in the attic and thought that she was the one who stood her up. He left and came back around the next day just in time to help her mow the lawn right before being introduced to her parents. Her mother knew that Macon was not only a friend of Halley's. While Halley was at work the next day Scarlett told her to meet her in the restroom as she had some very important news, that she was pregnant. She had sex with Michael the day before he died and had been missing him alot because not only was he the only boy she ever loved but he was also that father of the baby she was expecting. When she told her mother she made the decision that they would take her in for an abortion the next day without any hesitation.

Quote
"I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away (Deesen 74)"

Reaction
Throughout these next pages the relationship between Halley and her mother is emphasized. They are growing farther apart and there is nothing that Halley can do about it. She wants to tell her mother but knows that she can't because she will not understand her teenage way of thinking and she will begin talkin to her in her "therapist voice". Also, if she tells her mother about Macon Faukner then she will over react by asking to speak to parents at the party. Another thing she fears that will happen if she tells her mother her secrets is that she will begin to judge her and her friends such as Scarlett and Macon.