Flipped2

First Flipped part 2

...continuation

Juli, on the other hand, can't stop thinking about Bryce in many years she's known him. Obliviously missing his discomfort being around her, she continues to try to get him to like her.

However, Juli's motives change when her beloved sycamore tree was cut down. Although Juli stayed up in the branches for hours and misses school to protest its excision, she's brought down by her dad and isn't the same for weeks.

Unbeknownst to Juli, Bryce feels horrible about Juli's tree, considering Juli asked Bryce to come up protest with her and he declined.

He frets over whether he could have made a difference, and contemplates many times apologizing to Juli but chickens out each time.

Matters aren't helped when Bryce's wise but stubborn grandfather takes a fond liking to Juli and pesters Bryce to be friends with her– he doesn't seem to understand Bryce's annoyance with the girl.

Juli's spirit was lightened when her dad, whom she admires more than anyone, paints her a picture of her sycamore tree.

Juli often sits out with her dad on the porch for hours, listening to him talk and watching him paint. Juli hangs the picture in her room so she'll always be reminded of how she felt on that tree.

Things with Juli started to change when Juli gives Bryce and his family a batch of chicken eggs. Bryce's mother immediately expresses concern that the eggs might be fertilized, so Bryce and Garret sneak over to Juli's house and try to spy on the chickens in her backyard in search of a rooster.

Confused about the difference between chickens, roosters and hens, they head home without answers. Bryce's family however has a new concern– salmonella.

To Bryce, Juli's yard has always been messy, and the family is concerned about the egg being poisoned. Bryce's father tells him to just say no to Juli's eggs, but Bryce ends up by just throwing them away before his parents come down for breakfast.

This goes on for several weeks, but ends when Juli catches Bryce throwing the eggs into the trash can and tells him she's lost over dollars giving him the eggs when she's been selling them to her neighbors.

She ran home, leaving Bryce feeling miserable.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TBC ;)