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I wish Zeke wasn't so hard on himself. Hopefully Lexie got through to him.

"Everyone has a dark side, Zeke. The key is not to let it make you it's bitch and I think you do a pretty good job of that."

I hate it when victims blame themselves. Dancing with a guy you don't know isn't wrong & doesn't give them the right to putv their hands on you.

The guys say that Lexie is family & one of them but the voting thing is something they all do as a group that she's supposed to be a part of, yet they didn't include her or even tell her about voting on the "No dating Lexie" rule. They have this complete double standard when it comes to her. She's not TRULY one of them. They just pretend like she is when it suits them but her opinion should matter all of the time.

I find it really hard to believe that they would all go wait in the car while she uses the bathroom, leaving her alone at a party full of drunk guys after Jessica showed a picture of Lexie in her underwear to an entire football stadium, with how protective they are. Not to mention the fact that there's a ghost who's after her. But they ALL decide it's fine to wait outside where they can't even hear if she screams?

Lexie is always keeping things from the guys & she definitely needs to work on her communication skills, so this quote coming from her is funny.

"I hated the story of Romeo and Juliet, how other girls fawned over the tragic love story. I couldn’t see the appeal. A little communication and honesty on their part and the whole death thing could have been avoided."

It's annoying how STUPID she can be sometimes. Serena told her she had to stay away from the dead for at LEAST 3 days, preferably 6 but she keeps going to art class even though she KNOWS she's going to run into a ghost who has it out for her. Plus, she decides NOT to tell anybody that the ghost is using her energy to burn up the stones she's wearing for protection, which will eventually break leaving her vulnerable!

Their double standard bullshit really pisses me off. As usual, they expect her to tell THEM everything they want to know about HER, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it makes her, while ALL of them are (& continue to) keep their own personal lives/traumas a secret from her. Zeke literally says: "We don't lie to each other Lexie. We don't even have secrets from each other." But SHE ISN'T included

Serena seems so nice and helpful when Lexie first meets her. I wonder when she told the witches council about her. Maybe not until she realized how powerful she was.

I just realized that the last book ended without Lexie ever telling Rory about Claire or Lexie seeing or mentioning Claire after she showed her the ghost trap I town. Back in the book when they all went to New Orleans, Claire told her she'd have to go back eventually but she wanted to say talk to Rory first & say goodbye. I guess the author forgot about that...I wonder what happened to her.