The book is taken place in a high school atmosphere with two main characters who have an off and on relationship, invading flirting. Throughout the book, Juliana shows strong emotion for Bryce. “I spent the year whispering spelling words and sniffing watermelon and wondering if i'll get my kiss.” (Draanen 11) This quote shows that Juliana cared about getting that one special kiss from Bryce, that she would lean …show more content…
“Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.” her father said (Daanen 34) as he was painting a landscape in the backyard and she was telling him about her over stuck Bryce. At first Juli was fairly confused at the time and kept wondering what her father had meant when he told her about “proper lighting.” shortly after her conversation with her father she started to think that what he said was based on Bryce and she should look at the full picture instead of one flower in the garden. Juli started to pull away from Bryce as she was truly seeing him buy his real colors, little did she know that Bryce was finding himself fall in love with her. He see that she wasn't ass talkative as usual so he started to be the annoying one, which only made it worse for Juli. All in all Bryce was faced with him not appreciating Juli in till it was too