- “We licked our lips. Our lipstick stayed on. We fluttered out french-manicured fingers…our nails shown like opals, even glowed in the dark” [2].
I kind of expected the girls to be visually bare ( as in like without any glamour – for some reason), so I was surprised to read that they wore lipsticks and fake nails.
2. “There was no underwear in the box. Sisco didn’t wear underwear” [3].
Okay, this just totally grossed me out. I mean, to me its lame not to wear underwear, so I started think about why someone won’t wear it; and perverseness was what won’t let go of this detail. And the author also displays Sisco as that sort of a person, so not wearing underwear totally fits his character.
3. “The breeze swirled its way around our bare legs, up through our mini-dresses and around our necks” [3].
I felt a little taken back. I can’t tell why, but I felt as if I should take those girls for sluts – just because they wear small dresses, it’s not a good enough reason but that’s how I apparently felt.
4. “They were smiling the whole time. We could not tell because their lips were stained with deep purple. I guess it could’ve been blood” [6].
Vampires. That’s the first thing that came to my mind. Maybe it’s whole Twilight craze or just vampires in general, but the fact that they are smiling and they have blood on their lips strained me to stick to the thought of them being vampires.
5. “We will see without seeing. We will be seen without seeing that we’ve been seen. No, we won’t see back. No, no one will see” [8].
At first I didn’t get it (I think I had to read it at least 5 times to be able to understand what’s said). I think I felt that there is this sort of embarrassment rushing around the girls. They will see but they won’t see, they want to see but they don’t want to be seen. I felt miss-treated or even victimized in a way, just because they story’s characters are.
