this review can contain spoiler wendy get a mean crush on neil the year she twelve and and her friendship with neil will continue throughout her teenage and early adult year . theyre just a couple of crazy kid hang with each other to placate the boredom of living in the middle of no where . at night she have dream that they be bonnie and clyde together and blow away boring innocent with their machine gun and with their arm wrap around one another . they be both reckless outsider like bonnie and clyde and both hat by the other kid who reject their mindset and style . they hate neil for be a queer and and the girl think wendy be strange herself by openly declare herself his friend by walk home from school with him every afternoon . but wendy doesn not care . she hang tough about all the other stupid kid in school . wendy vow to herself and if i could make neil my friend and i figure i wouldn not need anyone else . eventually and wendy and neil become the close than if they be even lover . wendy just understand something about the perverse peter pan in neil that even he doesn not understand about himself . it almost a if she be his perverse wendy who can sometimes visit never never land together . from the get go and wendy and neil be of a like mind . she witness neil try his sex game out on a retarded boy . now and some dire section of my brain long to find out what twisted thing neil could do to this nimrod and this stephan zepherelli . by the time neil and wendy be 15 year old and it doesn not surprise wendy one bit that neil be show sign of degeneration . especially since she witness him go down on this retarded boy . neil have tell wendy all his private story about be with coach and and old man who use to make love to neil when he be a little boy . in neil mind and it have be a great thing and a great love experience . but deep down and wendy know there something wrong with neil and and his love relationship with coach be somehow to blame . neil be now perversely attract to old men and and want to sell his body to get both his cheap thrill again and and earn an income and so i could get more drug for wendy and me . neil and a little later and will go to new york city and begin his tenure a a full time street prostitute . wendy be the friend he shack up with . they both have manage to escape kansa and and get away to aid ridden manhattan . but meanwhile and they be still grow up in kansa and and neil get his first real job a a hustler . he take the bike he steal over to wendy to celebrate their first hoist . never mind that neil let his first john almost mutilate his genitals . neil and wendy stop and wait for a train . neil put the candy wax lip over his mouth and and wendy lean over to kiss them . they go to the park and neil write his advertisement on the in magenta crayon . then he say and i have something to show you . and here wendy witness teeth mark on neil prick when he take his pant down to show what this john do to him . your dick be not a candy cane . she lecture him . ( because wendy enjoy this privilege ) and pull up your pant and exhibitionist . it be in the very last chapter of part one of the novel that heim show the reader how close wendy and neil be . more than high school sweetheart and more than a married couple . they be almost like soul mate who share the same secret language . write from neil point of view and we can see just how much wendy mean to him and a his friend who he willing to share his deep secret with . a the snow begin to fall and neil think and it a if i would punch a button mark miracle . neil take wendy hand . i wish they be show a movie right now and wendy whisper and a film about our life and everything that happen so far . and we would be the only one stand here and you and me . they unhook a phone form a pole theyre standing by . be wendy play a joke on him and neil wonder . i hear something and she tell him and listen and it the voice of god . but neil have a need to trust his in soul mate and the girl who do everything for him and even get god on the phone for neil and just so he can believe in something for one single moment in his life and something that isn not a joke tell by his best friend . neil take the phone out of her hand and brush the snow out of her face and and say and i hear him . review from the bad art cafe base on mysterious skin novel and by scott heim . amazing ( if crude at some moment ) film and but my only complain be that wendy have play a large role in the story and a she do in the book and hence post this review i find on internet a commentary . i really end envision neil ( and brian too ) a peter pan type and whose normal life have be cut off from themselves by the sinister coach .