I may be able to pose as Mary, but never as Jack, even though we actually look and act completely the same.
I love to talk to him on the phone, because it goes like this:
me: Why are you home?
Jack: I'm home sick
me: Me too. So what have you been reading while you're home?
Jack: ummm, I'm starting the Hunger Games.
me: I heard they were really good.
Jack: What have you been reading?
me: I just finished the Lightning Thief, so we can go to the movie this weekend.
Jack: The movie's okay. You know that scene where Annabell plays with Cerberus, though?
me: Yeah.
Jack: They took the whole thing out. It just like all of a sudden they're with Hades, in the
underworld. No three headed dog to get around.
me: That makes no sense, you can't just walk into the underworld!
Jack: YEAH! I know, its like anyone who knows anything about the underworld would be
expecting to see Cerberus. It doesn't make any sense. They're just like ZIP! We're in the
underworld, ZIP! now we're not.
me: That's stupid. What else have you been reading?
Jack: How to Train Your Dragon, which is nothing like the movie, at least what I've seen in the trailer. I mean, in the movie they apparently kill dragons, but in the book every kid has to catch a dragon when its a baby or you're banished, so this kid catches one, but he gives it to this other guy so he doesn't get banished. I mean, when movies take stuff out, I'm like 'Okay, maybe they didn't have enough time to make it right,' but it's so stupid when they take stuff out just to add different things that never happened!
I love it. When I was a kid I just wanted a best friend who cared about books as much as I did. After the midnight showing of HP6 (which we both went to separately) he called me and we talked for almost an hour about the changes they made and how we felt about them.
And I mean, RIGHT after. We were on the phone from like 3-4am.
The first book ever ruined by movies for me was Tuck Everlasting, and it was a devastating, heart-breaking time for me. I love having someone who knows exactly how it feels.
And has read all the exact same books as me.
It doesn't matter that he's only twelve. He's one of my best friends.
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And we have to ground him from reading and take away his books just like we did when you were 12. Hit you where it hurts! Other parents are confused by that. No one grounds their kids from reading!!! At least Jack hasn't caught his sheets on fire yet, reading with a lamp under the covers.
I love the love. Your last line said it all. :)
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