The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks
popular fiction
pg. 101-141

Ronnie has now returned to Bower's Point with Blaze and Marcus and the other trouble makers. Marcus tries to put moves of Ronnie, but just makes it obvious she's uninterested. But yet, Marcus is hard headed and takes a while to get the point. Blaze is there and witnesses all of the above. She ignores it for the time being. However, the next day, Ronnie finds Blaze in a music store they visited the previous day. Blaze knows about Ronnie's shoplifting past, so she decides to place valuable records in her bag. When Ronnie goes to leave, she sets off the store alarm, unaware of Blaze's prank. She's furious because this will not go well because of her record already full of previous shoplifting incidents. The police arrive and take her to her father who will attempt to work out a deal with the store owner to save his daughter. Meanwhile, Ronnie's father is forced to close off the piano in his house at Ronnie's wishes. Ronnie hasn't played the piano since her father left when she was younger and is very sensitive about playing. Later, Ronnie finds raccoons on the beach eating at sea turtle eggs. Being the environmentalist she is, she calls animal control to set up a cage to protect the eggs. Until they arrive, she sleeps outside on the beach in hopes of protecting the nest. Eventually they arrive, and it happens to be Will, who came to set up the outline for the cage.

The book is still becoming more intense!! I admire that Ronnie cares so much about animals. She sleeps outside on the beach, knowing there's raccoons all around her in attempt to protect the nest. I wish I could do that....