English while other classmates hang out during home base period at Greely Junior High School. Every couple of months, Mary's parents talk to her about sex and relationships. The talks seem more frequent since she starting dating Jon. In her second-story room in her Cumberland home, a stack of stuffed animals rises from the corner. She hugs the monkeys each night before falling asleep.
People get really sad when they get dumped.
They're just like depressed and walk around all sad and everything. They think it's biggest thing in entire world. On this Saturday, two days before Valentine's Day and her 14th birthday, Mary leans on the edge of her sister's bottom bunk bed contemplating the card she's making for Jon. The happiest I've ever been. The weekend after Valentine's Day, Mary took the ferry to Jon's home on Chebeague Island.