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@Jade, if the Forum timestamps are to be believed, you and I were posting at almost the same moment on Saturday. You do a much better psychoanalysis of Teagan! We agree on her, and feel Dex’s disappointment. But so far in the book, we don’t see eye to eye on Ms. Napier or Traci. I really, really like the guidance counselor. She cares so.much. for her students and feels like she’s getting resistance from them to show some school spirit, and also from her fellow staff/administrators about giving the kids some slack. (Clearly, I have started to live that meme where I used to relate to Ferris Bueller but now feel like Principal Rooney was just trying to do his job… I’m able to see the story through the adult’s eyes a whole lot easier these days.) As far as Traci… well, if someone ever edited something I wrote to make it appear to say the opposite of my original words, I would spit nails. Love your insight on Dex being sort of stuck in time at The Pines.

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The third quarter of OLD SCHOOL (continued)

I feel like I should be disappointed in myself, but I think the start of Teagan’s chapter made me laugh the most yet in OLD SCHOOL. She is just soooo negative and condescending, with that I’m-the-center-of-the-universe worldview. And then her 180-degree turnaround about wanting to see Dexter when she hears he’s got a fan club!

And speaking of self-centered side characters: poor Jackson Sharpe. Can’t you just feel his world falling apart?! Archibald McDoofenbutz—ha!