Sweet Valley High #31: Taking Sides
There's a hot piece of ass
in Sweet Valley, and his name is Jeffrey French. Both Lila and Enid
want him, so Jessica and Liz decide to help their respective best
friend snag him. For Liz, this means shoving him down Enid's throat
at every turn. Jessica tries to step back and let Lila wow him on
their own.
Lila invites him to a pool
party at her house, but Jessica keeps the party a secret from her
twin. Jeffrey spends the whole time making new friends and meeting
new people instead of fawning all over Lila. She buys him a brand new
camera because he loves photography, but he tells her he can't take
it because it was too expensive.
When Liz hears about the
party, she decides to amp up her efforts. She gushes on and on about
Enid and how Jeffrey should meet her at the big volleyball game. She
then promises Enid he'll be there. He asks Liz if she's going, and
she claims that she has to do something with her cousin. The next
day, they learn that he went to the Beach Disco with Jess, Lila, and
a bunch of their friends instead.
Elizabeth sees him again
and talks up Enid again. He starts asking her to take him on a tour
of Sweet Valley and do stuff with him, but she keeps bringing up
Enid. Lila shows up with great tickets to a professional soccer game
in Los Angeles, and he leaves Liz behind to go with her. She realizes
that she felt a little jealous when he left with another girl.
Enid is running a program
to get food for the homeless shelter. They hold a big auction in the
auditorium, and students bid on items with canned goods. Liz
convinces Jeffrey that he should donate a date with him. He thinks it
sounds conceited, but she convinces him that it's a good way to get
to know someone new. Enid ends up bidding multiple boxes of canned
goods to win him.
The only way she can win
is if Lila isn't at the auction. She convinces her and Jess that she
needs their help with manual labor, and they both make up excuses why
they can't help. Enid then makes it clear that if they show up,
she'll find a job for them both to do, so they skip it.
Cut to their "big
date." Enid realizes that they have nothing in common and don't
really click as a couple. She tries to tell Liz, who decides to
ignore her. They have a big picnic fundraiser thing, and she keeps
forcing Jeffrey to spend time with Enid. Jessica blows up at her over
the auction, they have a fight, and Jessica storms off. Jeffrey then
goes off on her for trying to force him to date someone. When he
storms off, she bursts into tears.
Jessica shows up to
comfort her. When she starts crying over Jeffrey, Jessica realizes
that her twin is in love. She tells her to go talk to him, which she
almost doesn't do because she sees him dancing with Lila. Liz finally
works up the nerve to talk to him, and when she tells him how she
feels, he admits that he's in love with her too. Yay?
The other story is all
about the twins' cousin Jenny. She's a year younger, 10 pounds
overweight, and Jessica pretty much hates her. Jenny always follows
her around, dresses like her, and tries to be just like her. This is
especially bad because Jessica is obsessed with some new guy named
Eddie. She thinks he's really cute, but they don't really know each
other and he can't even tell her and Liz apart.
Eddie and Jenny instantly
bond over their shared love of old books, which Jessica thinks is
boring. Every time she turns around, she sees Jenny with Eddie. Eddie
even invites them to go out on Friday. Jessica whines that Jenny
keeps butting in, even though he clearly has more in common with her
cousin. Eddie finally grows a pair and makes it clear that it's Jenny
he likes, but at the end of the book, she says that he's nice and all
but it doesn't mean anything because she's leaving.
*Someone mentions being
surprised that there are people in need of food and housing in Sweet
Valley. Isn't there a story involving a shelter in like every other
book?
*The auction takes place
before school is over for the day, but apparently, everyone has the
chance to leave school instead of going to it. Nice job teaching.
*I love the fact that Liz
"falls in love" with Jeffrey by the end of the book. They
seriously only talk twice before she starts having feelings for him,
and he acts like he's in love after their first meeting.
*Lila wears a white
jumpsuit and gold heels to a party on the beach. Did anyone really
dress like this in high school?
*The Jenny and Eddie thing
is pretty evident from the first time they meet. They instantly start
talking about how much they love old books and movies. Jessica keeps
yawning and trying to change the subject, but she still somehow
thinks they're meant to be together.
*This book does a really
good job of setting up the next book, where Jessica dyes her hair and
changes her look. There are multiple mentions of how tired she is of
looking like her twin even in the beginning of the book.
*Liz and Jeffrey fall in
love without knowing anything about each other. She even points out
that all she knows is that he likes soccer and photography.
*The winning bid for the
year before was a football Ken donated from some big game. Woo hoo!
Penny apparently donated a back rub too, which is a little strange.
Liz really doesn't have to do anything ever to get a boyfriend does she? Two meetings and its love.
ReplyDeleteOf course she doesn't have to work for it! Who could resist a perfect size 6 blond with eyes the color of the ocean? LOL
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