Smoke

SMOKE

By: Ellen Hopkins

Pattyn and Jackie Von Stratton are sisters and best friends. They have gone through a rough life together along with a new baby and many little sisters along with a busy mother and an abusive father. Pattyn was finally fed up with her father’s beatings. So when she came back for revenge of the death of her love Ethan and her unborn baby she finds him beating her sister Jackie that built her rage. Pattyn shoots her father and is now on the run. Jackie does not remember much of that night. She knows she was raped by the jerk Caleb McCain, and her father found her and taught her a harsh lesson. Pattyn finds herself in the care of a girl’s family that she barley knows. Jackie finds herself stuck at home with a mother that won’t stand up for her own daughter after been raped, and then beaten by her own father. She also has to take care of all of her younger siblings.  

            Pattyn is staying with her new friend Adriana and her family. Adriana’s brother, Angel, ends up coming home and taking Pattyn with him to get a job as a maid. Jackie is at home still healing and trying to remember everything that happened that night. She falls behind in school and ends up getting a tutor, Gavin; little did she know that he would become more important to her than she thinks. Jackie and her family are moving out of their home and her mother has become very close with Caleb McCain’s father. She can’t believe how inconsiderate her mother can be. She was shocked when her mother told her it was her fault that Caleb raped her.

            Patty loves her job but there is something or someone not right about it Deirdre, the Mister and Missus’s daughter. She has a dark side to her, and when Pattyn finds something on her computer she is kind- of scared but she don’t dare tell Deirdre parents instead she tells her newly found best friend Angel, she feels so lucky to find him. Jackie is still having troubles dealing with the newly found friendship found in her mom and Caleb’s father. One day in church none other than Caleb gets up and “apologizes” for his wrong doings. Jackie couldn’t take it, she stands up and confesses everything including something that can change the whole situation with Pattyn. Will Pattyn ever come home? Will Janice (there mother) ever look at Jackie the same? Will Pattyn find love in angel?