↓ TranscriptChapter 22 (Waves breaking on a beach. There are small shells and rocks on the sand which the water leaves furrows around as it recedes.)
Chapter 22
↓ TranscriptAND ON WENT LIFE. (Emily and Maddy are going into the water at the beach, each with a boogie board. Emily goes out past where the waves are breaking. Dee grasps her board from below the water and tows[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily smiles as she is towed through the ocean.) Emily: What? Why have you stopped? Dee: I told you they’d notice. (Maddy, Carmine, and one of the boy cousins are looking out at her from the sand.) Carmine: EMILY![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptJacob: How were you doing that? Emily: I dunno, but it was fun. Do you want a go? Carmine: Was it a rip? Emily: No. Rips are different. Carmine: Are you sure it’s not a rip? Are we allowed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(The five of them speed gleefully around in the water on their boogie boards.) Carmine: HA HA! I’m winning! Ella (when they come in from the water): What were you doing out there? Jacob: We don’t know! (Emily smiles[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Emily is in her attic room in the beach house; there are items stacked on her camp bed. Dee appears.) Dee: Ooh, are these all your Christmas presents? Emily: Yep! Haha, and check out this really awkward one. (She[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptDee: Huh. I did, didn’t I? I forgot I did that. Huh. Emily: … Is this one of those times where you’ve repressed all your negative emotions? Dee: What? When do I do that? Emily: Oh my god. ALL[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptEmily: It’s just… who wears a shirt with their best friend on it? Dee: I think the difference is that most people’s friends aren’t on t-shirts. Emily: What about, say, friends of Miley Cyrus? Dee: How do you know[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptI REGRET HOW OFTEN I BROUGHT UP THE LIBRARY INCIDENT IN THE WEEKS AFTER IT HAPPENED. BUT I COULDN’T LET IT GO, NO MATTER WHAT DEE SAID. (A sequence of panels from various times before and after the previous[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ Transcript(Walking down the street.) Emily: You don’t have any ideas on what it’s about? Dee: Stop it! (Climbing a tree.) Emily: You’re such a doormat! I can’t believe you’re just going to let this thing happen to you! Dee:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…