Status Updates From Sixteen: Stories about That...

these are some of the last words i will ever read for the first time of ned vizzini and im sad

Goddamn, this story was great! It reminded me of Winter Dreams by Fitzgerald.

Holy shit, that last story was agonizing.

This "Cat Got Your Tongue?" story is so far the most annoying and cringy, but the "Grief Diet" one and the David Levithan one were genuinely great. Maybe it's just because I can't drive at the ripe old age of 29, but what is the big deal about driving anyway? Seems utterly terrifying to me (and yes, I recognize the privilege I have at being in a city with public transport).

Reading these stories makes me glad that I was nine in 2003 and not sixteen.

In the section "Fifteen going on..." Jessica is getting yelled at because her mom doesn't believe that Hope is her best friend, and instead thinks that Bridget is. Hope is the kindest and most caring friend of Jessica's meanwhile Bridget and her stopped being friends because she became too bossy. Her best friend is going to be leaving soon, so today is the last day that she can see her, so she runs to her house.

In the section "The mud and fever dialogue", Pyrrho gets sick in the summer for a couple of weeks. This changes his whole life right in front of his family. He tried to get bitten by wild dogs, tried to drown, fall off a cliff, eat things that would make him throw up blood, sit in the sun to get dehydrated etc. This was a way of his "philosophy", he exclaimed. Finally, his brother knocked sense into him in the mud.

In the last part of Cowgirls and Indie boys, Sulk is finally allowed to go to a party with Gemma and the bees. They gave her a makover and dressed her up like a cowgirl to be ready to kiss the guy they picked out for her. But then Gemma lashes out out of nowhere once she sees Sulk all dressed up under the command of Carmen. As Sulk was going to go on her date, she saw Gemma sitting by a tree and sat down next to her.

Sulk explains how her and Gemma became friends when they were younger because Gemma was British and Sulk learned British English in India so they got along. Sulk finally convinced her parents to let her go to a party and have fun with a guy the ''Bees" set up for her.

There is an Indian girl named Suzy and she is going to turn 16, but has never been kissed before. Adding on to that, her best friend Gemma got accepted into the "Bees" (popular group of people) and is acting really cold toward Suzy. Her parents won't let her go to parties because they think that only bad things will happen, but she only wants to go have fun with her friends.

In this part of the book Emma has mono, got a bike instead of a car and her boyfriend cheated on her with two girls on her birthday. Her friend tells her that her sweet sixteen is coming up, but Emma still has mono. Over the next days she heals and is able to go to her friends Sweet. She sees Jordan there and as she goes over there he apologizes and kisses her, but she realizes that he isn't worth her time anymore.