Eleanor was supposed to stay there for a couple of days, which turned into a whole year. Sitting outside with her brother, Ben asks Eleanor what it was like when she left, to live with the Hickmans, an old friend of her mother's. Their house is right next to the elementary school where Ben and Maisie go, the playground right in their backyard. One afternoon, Eleanor's mother loses her temper when two of her brothers, Ben and Mouse, are fighting over a toy, so she pushes them all out the back door. She tries to hand it back, but he declines. As she gets up to leave, he hands her the comic book. They are still reading when they get to Eleanor's stop, both engrossed in the story. At the end of the school day, Park opens his comic book back to where they'd left off that morning. He starts a new comic and lets Eleanor read with him. Eleanor notices that Park realized that she's reading his comics, but neither of them acknowledges it. Awkward from the silence, he opens the comic book in his lap wider, so Eleanor can get a better view of it. Eleanor sits, leaving six inches between her and Park, and both of them say nothing on their way to school.Īfter many days of taking the bus together in silence, Park realizes Eleanor is reading his comic books on the bus. Park, listening to his Walkman, gets irritated when he sees that Eleanor is about to cry, and he moves over in his seat and rudely tells Eleanor to sit down, which neither of them is pleased about. Eleanor finally finds an empty seat and gets the courage to sit, only to be stopped by Tina, a popular girl with big, blonde hair. Eleanor's mother, Sabrina, tells her that her stepfather Richie could drive her to school on his way to work, but Eleanor refuses. She soon gets accustomed to sitting down by the bus driver. Eleanor stays standing as the bus drives on, and more kids get on and take their seats. The students on the bus see her and arrange themselves so that the extra space is covered, and Eleanor doesn't sit near them. Sixteen-year-old Eleanor Douglas gets onto the bus on her first day at a new school. Plot This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises.Park. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough.Eleanor. Standing behind him until he turns his head.

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