![]() ![]() She cuts her hair (must be a symbol) and starts dressing in lumpy sweatshirts instead of form-fitting dresses. Bless his heart.Ĭoping with the traumas of her mom's death and her shady sexual experience, Jude's sort of done being Jude, too. He quits his life, cuts his hair, and tries to act "normal"…except for the Lost Connections Internet posts he keeps leaving for Brian. Under the impression that his application was rejected, Noah decides he's done being Noah. Jude throws Noah's application to art school in the garbage instead of putting it in the mail. ![]() Noah goes to yell at Guillermo and lies that his parents were planning to get back together. In the aftermath of Dianna's death, everyone does stupid, awful things. (She never quite defines it as rape, but the situation is definitely shady.) To make matters way worse, when she gets home, she learns that her mother has died. And right as her mother loses control of her car, Jude is having sex for the first time. On the way, she gets into a fatal car accident. This leads to a major argument, after which she drives off to meet with G. Mom tells Noah that she loves Guillermo and plans to divorce his dad. Too late: their friendship or romance or whatever it was is officially in the toilet. He screams out that Brian's gay and immediately regrets it. He runs away, totally freaking out, when he sees Brian, who's with a girl that he's clearly just hooked up with. Noah spots his mom kissing Guillermo in the park. Brian freaks out and pulls the plug on their romance because he's a closet case. Noah is rightfully horrified (because it was intrusive) and wrongly embarrassed (because he's gay). Well, back up the truck-technically, the chaos begins one day before, when Dianna walks in on Noah and Brian wanking off together. ![]() Noah notices that she's been acting a bit strange, but it's still a shock to him and his sister when Dianna announces her separation from their father.Īll these secrets, rifts, and petty aggressions come to a head on one doozy of a rainy day. She and her husband Benjamin haven't been getting along, so she's started an affair with a local sculptor, Guillermo Garcia (exotic, huh?). Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her family, Dianna has a lot going on. Nothing happens, but Noah doesn't know that until Brian (a boarding-school kid) comes home for winter break and plants one right on his lips. In retaliation, Jude rigs a party game so that she spends Seven Minutes in the Closet with Brian. Hogging his mother's attention, Noah does everything he can to prevent Dianna from finding out about Jude's awesome art. Jude is upfront about being boy-crazy, but shy about her art, which she never shows to anyone. Noah publicly celebrates his identity as an artist and secretly obsesses over the neighborhood hottie, Brian. Without really realizing it, Noah and Jude are leading mirror lives. As they gear up to apply to a super competitive art school, they fight for the attention of their mother, Dianna. That drift is one part one part hormonal and a zillion parts insane sibling rivalry. At 14-ish, they're entering puberty and beginning to drift apart. Fraternal twins and lifelong besties Jude and Noah Sweetwine have been more or less the same person for most of their lives. ![]()
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