After

Unfortunately I am only to chapter ten in After. I was hoping that I would be a lot farther than in the novel at this point. In the past couple chapters, Devon has started to enlighten the readers about the night she conceived her child. She is expressing her emotions at that point. That evening started out like any regular date. They ate dinner and went on a little stroll. Where they were walking, it had poems etched into the cement. Her date, name still unknown, began reading the poems to Devon. She becomes confused about what she is feeling. Her date keeps moving closer to Devon. Suddenly they are so close, that she can feel his heart beating. Before she knows it, they are kissing.

When she is remembering this moment, she is sitting in school at the juvenile correction center. She is starting to do what is required of her. She is doing her daily chore, which is cleaning up after meals and attending school. Once Devon arrives at school, the readers are introduced to some of the other girls at the center. Devon ends up sitting to this girl Karma, who gives Devon a nickname, Devil. She is taunting Devon a little bit. I believe that Karma is trying to scare Devon or get her is trouble with the teacher. I think that Karma will become a trouble maker in the novel. It is all still unclear what will happen in the end. I am not sure what the expect for the rest of the novel, but I am excited to find out. Stay tuned for the following chapters.