The father found Shorty being mauled, but luckly he scared away the wild animal and took Shorty to the vet. Jenessa loved Shorty dearly and it broke her heart and she finally talked to her parents for the first time. The next morning, the family dog Shorty was nowhere to be found. Carey and Delaney make truths at the end of the night because Carey catches her drunk and making love with her boyfriend. Their mothers were actually very good friends, until one day when Carey's mother stopped taking her medication and took Carey away from Ryan and Carey's father. She also despised her because Carey would talk to Ryan, who is Delaney's big crush from the year before.Īt a school house party we find out that Ryan did know Carey before she was taken away. Delaney didn't want anything to do with Carey, but she had a soft spot for Jenessa. She did not acknowledge her at school as a sister, and made fun of Carey with her friends. When Carey and Jenessa moved in with their father and new step-mother, Carey had a lot of conflicts with Delaney. The thing about all of this, Carey did not know right from wrong, and it makes her question everything even more.
She would invite strange men over that would touch Carey and Jenessa inappropriately for money. Her mom told them a lie about how their father didn't want them anymore. She would abandon them for days, weeks, and even months on end with very little food to eat. With cigarette burns on Jenessa's and Carey's back, it is not hard to know that her mama was not the best. Throughout the book, Carey has flashbacks of things her mama do and say to the girls.
Why did her mother take her away into hiding? Who is the real bad guy, her mother or her father? Should she tell why her sister is mute, or will she be forced to leave her sister? Should she tell Jenessa who her father really is? They will have to go to a regular school and live with another step-sister named Delaney.Ĭarey has to learn what really happened when she was four years old. Haskell) in the woods of Secenic River Nation Park, Tennessee they are forced to undergo a huge transition to a different way of living. When a mom writes a letter to her ex-husband (the letter in the Youtube video), and two young girls, Carey (14 years old) and Jenessa (6 years old) are found by Carey's father and a social worker (Mrs.
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