Dawn's Wicked Stepsister Chapters 11-15
Chapter 11
I’m about ready to finish this shit. At some points I might just start summarizing, just as a warning. This chapter starts off with Dawn saying that she was hurt and making a special effort to be nice to Mary Anne. I couldn’t figure out what Dawn’s problem was until I remembered that Mary Anne was going to hang out with Kristy and the BSC can’t stand to be reminded that the universe doesn’t revolve around them. I could kind of understand because I got jealous when my best friend hung out with her other friends. But then I remembered that Dawn has been wanting Mary Anne out of the house, so why is she upset?
They go upstairs to do their homework. Both of them have math and science while Mary Anne has French. If I remember correctly, we could take foreign language electives in middle school. I think they offered French and Spanish. I took Spanish in middle school and high school. Mary Anne has to concentrate because math is hard. I feel her there. I would just look at the text book and be like, “What the fuck is this? Why are they using this formula? How do I know whether or not I need to use this formula? Where did this come from? What do I do next?”
Dawn turns the radio on because she can’t concentrate in a quiet room. I’m the opposite. I don’t mind a little background noise, but I prefer to work where it’s quiet. It would drive me nuts when I was trying to study and my mom would have the radio on full blast and she’d sing along. My mom can’t sing. You guys know when you’re trying to concentrate and it’s so loud that you aren’t even aware of your own thoughts except that it’s loud and that’s all you’re aware of? I think it’s polite to ask if you can turn the radio on just in case someone can’t concentrate with the music on. Mary Anne asks Dawn if she can turn the radio off because she can’t concentrate. Dawn lowers the volume but doesn’t turn it off. If I was Mary Anne, I’d be like, “Fuck this shit, I’m out.” Of course Dawn would probably whine about how Mary Anne doesn’t like her.
Dawn and Mary Anne argue over keeping the radio on or off. It’s suggested that one of them go in the guest room and I’d have been all over that. Of course the girls are arguing over who should go in the guest room and I don’t give a shit. Richard and Sharon come to see what’s wrong because the girls are being really loud. I’d have just screamed at them to shut the fuck up. Richard asks Dawn what happened and Dawn has to gloat because Richard asked to hear her side first, instead of Mary Anne’s. Dawn does what I usually do when I have an argument with my brother, play herself up to be an angel and downplay any negative role she might have had. She says that she turned on the radio and all of a sudden Mary Anne began fighting with her, leaving out the part where Mary Anne said she couldn’t concentrate and asked for Dawn to turn the radio off.
Richard sides with Dawn and Sharon sides with Mary Anne. At this point I think one of them should go in the guest room, but they’re being so stubborn about it. I’d have just been like, “I’m thinking of a number from one to ten. Whoever guesses it or the number closest to it can stay,” but Dawn would have whined about that too.
Dawn says that she and Jeff never fought. I have a younger brother. This is a load of bullshit. You expect me to believe Jeff and Dawn were perfect siblings and they never got on each other’s nerves? My brother and I fought lots of times. We fought over which chair to sit in, what to watch on TV, my brother teasing me, etc. Dawn says that she and Mary Anne never fought like this until they became stepsisters. Yeah, I think living with people makes you aware of sides of them you hadn’t seen before and it can annoy you. I guess it’s different living in close quarters with someone. Mary Anne is like, “Fuck this shit-I’m sleeping in the guest room.” Dawn complains that she got a wicked stepsister.
Chapter 12
Pike sitting job. Mrs. Pike injured her knee and Mr. Pike burned his hand. They have to hire babysitters because Mrs. Pike can’t walk and I guess a burned hand puts you out of commission? I never had a burn, so I don’t know. Mallory answers the door and she looks better. I’m sure Kristy is thinking that they’ll have a babysitter back instead of being happy that her friend is feeling better. Kristy and Jessi go inside the house and they see it’s a pigsty. They haven’t even cleaned up the kitchen from last night. I’m just picturing what a huge mess that would be and shuddering. I bet there’s still bits of food stuck to the plates and there probably aren’t any available dishes. Mallory says they have to make breakfast and serve it on trays, and Kristy looks like she’s going to faint. I’m imagining Mallory thinking, “Yeah, welcome to my world.”
Kristy asks what’s for breakfast and Mallory is like, “You’ll get ten different answers. I’m not making French toast, waffles, oatmeal, porridge, cereal, toast, hash browns, pancakes, and six different types of omlettes. They’re getting scrambled eggs, toast, and orange juice.” Yeah, I’d have been like, “I’m making you breakfast. Eat it or starve, I’m not a short order restaurant cook.” Claire doesn’t like scrambled eggs. Mallory doesn’t give a fuck. I’m sure Claire will survive eating scrambled eggs for a day until Cindermal can make the ten different types of breakfasts her siblings’ want and serve it to them in bed. I had to eat lots of food I didn’t like when I was a kid. They have to clean up the kitchen to make breakfast first. I’m guessing I was right and maybe they didn’t have any dishes or cooking utensils that were clean. My mom complained about dishes not being done when she got home because it was harder for her to cook.
Of course, Claire starts whining about how she doesn’t like scrambled eggs and she wants French toast, not regular toast and if she can have milk instead. Mallory is awesome and is like, “Eat it or shut the fuck up-this isn’t a restaurant.” I’m loving Mallory standing up for herself and not taking her siblings’ crap. Margo asks for a banana and of course that means that all the other kids whine about how they want fruit, milk, and French toast. Breakfast isn’t over for another two hours. I’m guessing the girls just made special breakfasts for everyone. I would have brained myself with the frying pan or clogged the sink and drowned myself.
Mr. Pike had planned to do some chores such as washing the laundry, changing the triplet’s beds, emptying the waste baskets. Were the Pikes just not doing the chores until now? I know the parents got injured, but it was a recent injury. Couldn’t they have done the laundry before then or emptied the trash? Were they just ignoring the mess until Mallory got better? Actually, I wouldn’t put it past them. They would probably see that they should do the laundry or empty the garbage bins, but instead of doing that, they'd just wait for Mallory to get better.
Oh, and the Pikes are running low on eggs, milk and bread. So the parents weren’t going to the grocery. I know they weren’t taking care of their sick kids. I guess they had another tennis game to go to. The girls cook dinner for the Pikes. Dawn doesn’t want to share a room with Mary Anne anymore.
Chapter 13
Dawn asks Kristy for advice since Kristy’s been through the same thing. Kristy is cool and says that mixing new families can be hard because everyone feels threatened, they need their space, people are angry, it’s a huge adjustment period. I like scenes like this. It makes the girls seem more human and relatable and it’s nice to see them talking about things aside from babysitting. I know the girls always claimed to be best friends forever, but I think more scenes like this would have helped me buy it more because you see them interacting. It’s kind of like how Dawn was able to understand what Stacey was going through when her parents divorced because she’d been through the same thing.
Dawn wants Mary Anne to move out. She doesn’t want to admit that sharing the room might not have been a good idea. Sometimes I think it might be better to just suck up your pride and try to make amends to salvage the relationship in some cases. There are cases where it’s best to just cut your losses and leave, but I don’t see the harm in just saying, “Yeah, maybe sharing a room wasn’t a good idea. You and I are too different to share a room.” But no, Dawn wants to scare Mary Anne to get revenge on her. I don’t see why Dawn doesn’t just admit sharing a room isn’t working out instead of staging a prank. This is what Dawn says.
Furthermore, I could take revenge on my stepsister without her knowing it. I could get back at her for all the stinky things she’d done - getting me in trouble with Mom, complaining about Mom’s food, following Mom around with the Dust-buster, getting chummy with Kristy and leaving me out of things, catching Mom’s bouquet, taking the job at the Perkinses’, and pitying me for not having a boyfriend. I could watch Mary Anne panic, but no one would know I was the cause of the trouble. Not if I put on the horror show when Mom and Richard weren’t around. They’d just think Mary Anne’s imagination had run away with her. And they’d be delighted to see her move into the guest room.
So Dawn knows that her best friend is a total wuss. And yet she’s planning to scare the shit out of her because god forbid you just admit things weren’t working out and move on. No, talking out your problems is for losers. I love how Dawn whines about Mary Anne complaining about Sharon’s food when her ass fucking whines all the time about everyone else’s food. People can’t even eat chocolate in front of her without her bitching. And maybe Sharon should learn that cleaning does not mean dumping everything on the floor and leaving it there. She’s probably secretly related to the Pikes because I can see them pulling the same shit. Kristy and Mary Anne were best friends before Dawn came into the picture. And catching the bouquet and getting the job at the Perkinses was chance, so I really think Dawn should get over it. Between Dawn planning to scare Mary Anne and looking forward to watching her get scared and getting mad that Mary Anne went to spend time with her father and cut her hair, I think it’s a good thing Dawn left for California. Knowing Dawn she’d make Mary Anne ask permission if she wanted to try out a new hair style or go spend one on one time with Richard.
Chapter 14
I don’t really feel like recapping this bit. Just thinking about Dawn planning to scare Mary Anne instead of calmly talking things out makes me mad. I’m also mad because I don’t think I’m supposed to think Dawn is in the wrong. Dawn fakes a job at the Pikes and scares Mary Anne. Mary Anne moves out and Dawn thinks she did the right thing. So when I get into a fight with my brother, the right thing to do is to scare him instead of admitting I was wrong? Dawn is happy she and Mary Anne worked things out without having to admit that they were wrong about sharing a room. Why the fuck couldn’t you admit that you were wrong? The fucking world won’t come to a fucking end! I’ve been wrong! I’ve admitted that I’ve been wrong and apologized! I was forgiven and life moved on. My parents have been wrong! They admitted they were wrong, I forgave them, and that was that! I don’t know why they can’t just admit that they were wrong and move on with their lives. I guess the BSC has a personal policy about admitting when they were wrong.
Chapter 15
BSC meeting. Claudia has a test on Monday. She’s standing on her head because the blood is supposed to rush to her head and make her smarter or some shit. Dawn suggests studying. Claudia says she feels lightheaded and wants to know if this is what being a genius feels like. Janine yells no from her room. There’s some bullshit about how the Schafer Spier group have finally decided to work things out, such as getting a damn chore chart or some other shit. I don’t care.
Foreign people are moving into Mary Anne’s old house. The BSC gets all excited because that means kids to babysit and they can teach the kids English. The next book is Kristy and the Secret of Susan. Does that mean the Hobarts moved into Mary Anne’s old house? Anyway, thanks for reading.
I’m about ready to finish this shit. At some points I might just start summarizing, just as a warning. This chapter starts off with Dawn saying that she was hurt and making a special effort to be nice to Mary Anne. I couldn’t figure out what Dawn’s problem was until I remembered that Mary Anne was going to hang out with Kristy and the BSC can’t stand to be reminded that the universe doesn’t revolve around them. I could kind of understand because I got jealous when my best friend hung out with her other friends. But then I remembered that Dawn has been wanting Mary Anne out of the house, so why is she upset?
They go upstairs to do their homework. Both of them have math and science while Mary Anne has French. If I remember correctly, we could take foreign language electives in middle school. I think they offered French and Spanish. I took Spanish in middle school and high school. Mary Anne has to concentrate because math is hard. I feel her there. I would just look at the text book and be like, “What the fuck is this? Why are they using this formula? How do I know whether or not I need to use this formula? Where did this come from? What do I do next?”
Dawn turns the radio on because she can’t concentrate in a quiet room. I’m the opposite. I don’t mind a little background noise, but I prefer to work where it’s quiet. It would drive me nuts when I was trying to study and my mom would have the radio on full blast and she’d sing along. My mom can’t sing. You guys know when you’re trying to concentrate and it’s so loud that you aren’t even aware of your own thoughts except that it’s loud and that’s all you’re aware of? I think it’s polite to ask if you can turn the radio on just in case someone can’t concentrate with the music on. Mary Anne asks Dawn if she can turn the radio off because she can’t concentrate. Dawn lowers the volume but doesn’t turn it off. If I was Mary Anne, I’d be like, “Fuck this shit, I’m out.” Of course Dawn would probably whine about how Mary Anne doesn’t like her.
Dawn and Mary Anne argue over keeping the radio on or off. It’s suggested that one of them go in the guest room and I’d have been all over that. Of course the girls are arguing over who should go in the guest room and I don’t give a shit. Richard and Sharon come to see what’s wrong because the girls are being really loud. I’d have just screamed at them to shut the fuck up. Richard asks Dawn what happened and Dawn has to gloat because Richard asked to hear her side first, instead of Mary Anne’s. Dawn does what I usually do when I have an argument with my brother, play herself up to be an angel and downplay any negative role she might have had. She says that she turned on the radio and all of a sudden Mary Anne began fighting with her, leaving out the part where Mary Anne said she couldn’t concentrate and asked for Dawn to turn the radio off.
Richard sides with Dawn and Sharon sides with Mary Anne. At this point I think one of them should go in the guest room, but they’re being so stubborn about it. I’d have just been like, “I’m thinking of a number from one to ten. Whoever guesses it or the number closest to it can stay,” but Dawn would have whined about that too.
Dawn says that she and Jeff never fought. I have a younger brother. This is a load of bullshit. You expect me to believe Jeff and Dawn were perfect siblings and they never got on each other’s nerves? My brother and I fought lots of times. We fought over which chair to sit in, what to watch on TV, my brother teasing me, etc. Dawn says that she and Mary Anne never fought like this until they became stepsisters. Yeah, I think living with people makes you aware of sides of them you hadn’t seen before and it can annoy you. I guess it’s different living in close quarters with someone. Mary Anne is like, “Fuck this shit-I’m sleeping in the guest room.” Dawn complains that she got a wicked stepsister.
Chapter 12
Pike sitting job. Mrs. Pike injured her knee and Mr. Pike burned his hand. They have to hire babysitters because Mrs. Pike can’t walk and I guess a burned hand puts you out of commission? I never had a burn, so I don’t know. Mallory answers the door and she looks better. I’m sure Kristy is thinking that they’ll have a babysitter back instead of being happy that her friend is feeling better. Kristy and Jessi go inside the house and they see it’s a pigsty. They haven’t even cleaned up the kitchen from last night. I’m just picturing what a huge mess that would be and shuddering. I bet there’s still bits of food stuck to the plates and there probably aren’t any available dishes. Mallory says they have to make breakfast and serve it on trays, and Kristy looks like she’s going to faint. I’m imagining Mallory thinking, “Yeah, welcome to my world.”
Kristy asks what’s for breakfast and Mallory is like, “You’ll get ten different answers. I’m not making French toast, waffles, oatmeal, porridge, cereal, toast, hash browns, pancakes, and six different types of omlettes. They’re getting scrambled eggs, toast, and orange juice.” Yeah, I’d have been like, “I’m making you breakfast. Eat it or starve, I’m not a short order restaurant cook.” Claire doesn’t like scrambled eggs. Mallory doesn’t give a fuck. I’m sure Claire will survive eating scrambled eggs for a day until Cindermal can make the ten different types of breakfasts her siblings’ want and serve it to them in bed. I had to eat lots of food I didn’t like when I was a kid. They have to clean up the kitchen to make breakfast first. I’m guessing I was right and maybe they didn’t have any dishes or cooking utensils that were clean. My mom complained about dishes not being done when she got home because it was harder for her to cook.
Of course, Claire starts whining about how she doesn’t like scrambled eggs and she wants French toast, not regular toast and if she can have milk instead. Mallory is awesome and is like, “Eat it or shut the fuck up-this isn’t a restaurant.” I’m loving Mallory standing up for herself and not taking her siblings’ crap. Margo asks for a banana and of course that means that all the other kids whine about how they want fruit, milk, and French toast. Breakfast isn’t over for another two hours. I’m guessing the girls just made special breakfasts for everyone. I would have brained myself with the frying pan or clogged the sink and drowned myself.
Mr. Pike had planned to do some chores such as washing the laundry, changing the triplet’s beds, emptying the waste baskets. Were the Pikes just not doing the chores until now? I know the parents got injured, but it was a recent injury. Couldn’t they have done the laundry before then or emptied the trash? Were they just ignoring the mess until Mallory got better? Actually, I wouldn’t put it past them. They would probably see that they should do the laundry or empty the garbage bins, but instead of doing that, they'd just wait for Mallory to get better.
Oh, and the Pikes are running low on eggs, milk and bread. So the parents weren’t going to the grocery. I know they weren’t taking care of their sick kids. I guess they had another tennis game to go to. The girls cook dinner for the Pikes. Dawn doesn’t want to share a room with Mary Anne anymore.
Chapter 13
Dawn asks Kristy for advice since Kristy’s been through the same thing. Kristy is cool and says that mixing new families can be hard because everyone feels threatened, they need their space, people are angry, it’s a huge adjustment period. I like scenes like this. It makes the girls seem more human and relatable and it’s nice to see them talking about things aside from babysitting. I know the girls always claimed to be best friends forever, but I think more scenes like this would have helped me buy it more because you see them interacting. It’s kind of like how Dawn was able to understand what Stacey was going through when her parents divorced because she’d been through the same thing.
Dawn wants Mary Anne to move out. She doesn’t want to admit that sharing the room might not have been a good idea. Sometimes I think it might be better to just suck up your pride and try to make amends to salvage the relationship in some cases. There are cases where it’s best to just cut your losses and leave, but I don’t see the harm in just saying, “Yeah, maybe sharing a room wasn’t a good idea. You and I are too different to share a room.” But no, Dawn wants to scare Mary Anne to get revenge on her. I don’t see why Dawn doesn’t just admit sharing a room isn’t working out instead of staging a prank. This is what Dawn says.
Furthermore, I could take revenge on my stepsister without her knowing it. I could get back at her for all the stinky things she’d done - getting me in trouble with Mom, complaining about Mom’s food, following Mom around with the Dust-buster, getting chummy with Kristy and leaving me out of things, catching Mom’s bouquet, taking the job at the Perkinses’, and pitying me for not having a boyfriend. I could watch Mary Anne panic, but no one would know I was the cause of the trouble. Not if I put on the horror show when Mom and Richard weren’t around. They’d just think Mary Anne’s imagination had run away with her. And they’d be delighted to see her move into the guest room.
So Dawn knows that her best friend is a total wuss. And yet she’s planning to scare the shit out of her because god forbid you just admit things weren’t working out and move on. No, talking out your problems is for losers. I love how Dawn whines about Mary Anne complaining about Sharon’s food when her ass fucking whines all the time about everyone else’s food. People can’t even eat chocolate in front of her without her bitching. And maybe Sharon should learn that cleaning does not mean dumping everything on the floor and leaving it there. She’s probably secretly related to the Pikes because I can see them pulling the same shit. Kristy and Mary Anne were best friends before Dawn came into the picture. And catching the bouquet and getting the job at the Perkinses was chance, so I really think Dawn should get over it. Between Dawn planning to scare Mary Anne and looking forward to watching her get scared and getting mad that Mary Anne went to spend time with her father and cut her hair, I think it’s a good thing Dawn left for California. Knowing Dawn she’d make Mary Anne ask permission if she wanted to try out a new hair style or go spend one on one time with Richard.
Chapter 14
I don’t really feel like recapping this bit. Just thinking about Dawn planning to scare Mary Anne instead of calmly talking things out makes me mad. I’m also mad because I don’t think I’m supposed to think Dawn is in the wrong. Dawn fakes a job at the Pikes and scares Mary Anne. Mary Anne moves out and Dawn thinks she did the right thing. So when I get into a fight with my brother, the right thing to do is to scare him instead of admitting I was wrong? Dawn is happy she and Mary Anne worked things out without having to admit that they were wrong about sharing a room. Why the fuck couldn’t you admit that you were wrong? The fucking world won’t come to a fucking end! I’ve been wrong! I’ve admitted that I’ve been wrong and apologized! I was forgiven and life moved on. My parents have been wrong! They admitted they were wrong, I forgave them, and that was that! I don’t know why they can’t just admit that they were wrong and move on with their lives. I guess the BSC has a personal policy about admitting when they were wrong.
Chapter 15
BSC meeting. Claudia has a test on Monday. She’s standing on her head because the blood is supposed to rush to her head and make her smarter or some shit. Dawn suggests studying. Claudia says she feels lightheaded and wants to know if this is what being a genius feels like. Janine yells no from her room. There’s some bullshit about how the Schafer Spier group have finally decided to work things out, such as getting a damn chore chart or some other shit. I don’t care.
Foreign people are moving into Mary Anne’s old house. The BSC gets all excited because that means kids to babysit and they can teach the kids English. The next book is Kristy and the Secret of Susan. Does that mean the Hobarts moved into Mary Anne’s old house? Anyway, thanks for reading.