jonathan was david's dad in the bible.
jonathan was david's dad in the bible.
who is david's dad in the bible?
jonathan
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the story begins with 15-year-old tess denuizo who is remembering how they named her sister. tess gives insight about her family in the first chapter. the reader learns that tess has two sisters that are only her half sisters and david is her stepfather. her real father is a mess according to the narrator. tess talks about how her relationship with david is much different from her two sisters. by the third chapter, the reader learns that something happened to her sister zoe. it has been almost a year since something terrible happened. she talks a lot about how the family has been coping. the family attends therapy and tries to get through the death of zoe, but things have been hard. tess’s mom has become very depressed and was once the leader of the house, but now david and tess do everything around the house. tess learns that her mother might have been sleeping with justin, a young man who works at the store that is down the street from their house. after this event, tess decides to move in with her biological father. she starts to adapt to her new living arrangements and has a hard time knowing she left her sister em, who is much younger than her. she goes to see her at school and promises to see her every week. tess has a moment with the boy next door, jimmy freeze, where she listens to the music he is playing. after this moment, she starts to see him around more. she finally talks to him one day while she is sitting on her porch and offers him a beer but his dad refuses to let her give him one. her dad then warns her to stay away from him. one day when she is sitting outside on the porch, travis approaches her. travis is a "friend" of her father’s. travis gives him money to give to her dad, which tess finds weird. he asks her if she has ever had some of the "product" but tess did not understand. travis then asks her if she would like to smoke weed but tess denies it. after travis leaves, tess confronts her dad about him selling weed. after their encounter, tess starts hanging out with jimmy freeze without telling her dad. one night, jimmy sneaks into tess’s window and they smoke weed together. it is now summer time and tess gets a job at boardwalk working at a lemonade stand. jimmy and tess started hanging out a lot of the time they smoked and kissed a lot. david asks tess to start calling her mother again and their relationship improved. on tess’s sixteenth birthday, she wakes up to find out her dad and jimmy are in jail for selling weed. tess is home with her dog when her dad comes home from jail. her dog runs into the street and her father hits the dog. her dad brings the dog to the veterinarian while jimmy stays with her. this event triggers her memory of what happened to zoe. she tells the story about how she was supposed to be watching zoe outside but she ran inside to watch the news of 9/11 when her sister ran into the street and was killed by a car. her dad returns hours later and her dog is going to be fine. when she goes to bed that night, she wakes up and forces her dad to bring her home to get a picture of zoe. when she goes inside, she realizes she needs to stay. the last chapter she talks about how she is coping, she still sees jimmy a lot and things get better for tess.
dear zoe