Candy blog entry number 8

The portion of the book that I read for this blog entry was dramatic in it's plot line. Joe skips school while his dad is out of town and goes to save Candy from her life. He wants to help her, although neither Candy or Joe understand why. This part of the book tells you something more is coming, but we don't know if it'll be for the good or for the bad. Candy and Joe also go up to Joe's cabin and she decides that she is going to quit using heroine, and Joe promises that he will do his best to help her. When Candy uses last it's the last time Joe sees one of her heart breaking smiles for a long time. Candy's withdrawal symptoms are severe, as expected, and at one point she tries to leave, and she kicks Joe in the groine. She cries and looks absolutely terrible. She sweats and freezes. She sleeps restlessly. She screams for help, and thinks that she is dying. When Candy attempts to leave Joe tells her that she can't go back to Iggy because he would kill her, and she says that she would somehow find a different way to get by. Although, she says this I think that she would end up in the same sort of situation, an account of Iggy knowing everyone. Candy also tells Joe the story of what happened to her. The root of her problem was truly jealousy and exclusion. I really do wonder if she will ever return to her parents, or what she will do after she is clean. The book keeps foreshadowing that Candy is going to somehow leave, and since Joe is telling this story as if it happened in the past, I'm think that the last few chapters could be him going and finding Candy in her modern life today, and possibly even talking to her again. I'm actually kind of scared that something terrible will happen to Candy, because at one point Joe does have to return to his normal life, and speaking of normal life, I think that Joe might get kicked out of his band. I hope he doesn't get kicked out of the Katies because they were doing well, and although Candy is important, so is his careeer. I also wonder what Joe's father is going to say to him once they both return home, because Joe's father knows that Joe isn't home. One thought that I kept pondering upon, was what if Iggy hurt Gina, I mean Joe hasn't talked to Gina for so long, and there are all these mysterious messages that Joe keeps getting at the house, which I feel probably have to do with Iggy. This is probably the climax of the story, because so much is going on, and I feel like there are so many conflicts that affect each other, I sure hope things pull together for the better.