Chapter 18 starts out with Lahni and her dad going to his hotel and that she is not too excited about it. Then, when they arrived at the hotel, Lahni found a woman in her father's bathroom and that was the last straw for Lahni. So, she called her mother to take her home from the hotel. She doesn't want her dad to take her home. Ursula was really mad for what Tim has done to Lahni. Then, Mr. Faringhelli is still waiting for Lahni to pick a song for the competition because time is running out. Soon, she picked the song "His Eye is on the Sparrow" and wanted Marcus to accompany her on the piano. Marcus will be present for rehearsal night. Then, the stalker of Lahni, Onyx 1, tapped a photograph of himself to her bike seat having written U R 4 ME. Then she learned that he got into a fight with 2 black boys and got suspended because he called them black apes and had a knife with him. That was a double whammy. Finally, Lahni had the courage to tell her mom that she is in a singing competition and agreed that they would go shopping for the right outfit. Ursula was upset that Lahni didn't tell her sooner. Then, when it was rehearsal night, she finally met Onyx 1 face to face and acted like a "female dog" towards him. He asked her to go out with him and she turned him down like he was dirt and said that he does not want to mess with her.
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"My father was already part of a different world. A world I didn't want to take part of....and now he knew what an idiot he'd been. He'd have to beg my mother's forgiveness and mine too, for being so dumb" (Wright 129).Reaction:
This quote was from the trip to the hotel with Lahni and her father. This trip added insult to injury on the father-daughter relationship. That made the family situation worse and is portrayed that Tim is being the bad guy. He is the person to blame for the divorce and the distant relationship between him and his daughter. I don't blame Lahni for actions for not going back home with her father because she does not want to be with the person that broke her mother's heart and made her depressed. Now it is clear that Lahni is not comfortable with Tim at all and wants to stay away from him as far as possible. There are a few things I want to learn. I wonder if Tim will reconcile with Ursula before the divorce is final and can be a happy family again. I still question if that woman in the bathroom is really Tim's girlfriend. Lahni thinks she is but the reader is not entirely sure. Last, I wonder if that will be the last time Lahni and Tim will ever meet.
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