By V.C. Andrews
In her tune, she stumbled on candy salvation.... Honey grew up on a farm less than her strict, fanatically non secular grandfather's disapproving eye. To him, every thing is a sin -- from her natural-born expertise for the violin to her blameless curiosity in boys and courting -- and lifestyles is a treacherous route to be walked in worry. whilst Honey is paired for tune perform with a super piano pupil, prosperous Chandler Maxwell, she discovers a real soul mate. but if a stunning relations mystery involves gentle, Honey discovers the startling reason for her grandfather's sour fury. And her personal helpful pleasure could be misplaced forever....
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You don't know how he mourns or when. ' Daddy insisted. "It doesn't do any good to dislike him. It doesn't bring Peter back. " "Not in so many words," I admitted. " I insisted. "I think he felt sorry for him. That's the last thing Grandad wants, however," Daddy warned. " Why not? I wondered. What was so terrible about people showing you sympathy? We were both quiet again. Then Daddy reached out and put his arm around my shoulders. "I don't want to see you so unhappy so long, and your mother is very worried about you, Honey," he said.
Well, after your grandmother Jennie had died. Grandad Forman decided we needed a woman on the farm. He wasn't going to remarry. He said he was too old and God didn't mean for him to have a wife, but I wasn't exactly burning up the world with my romantic skills. Matter of fact. I hadn't had a girlfriend since the tenth grade, and she got married to someone else a day after graduation. "Oh. I had a date here and there, or what you would roughly call a date. I guess, meeting someone at a dance or at the movies, but nothing ever became anything.
When I once voiced such a complaint. Mommy told me to just wait twenty years. I'd love being considered too young then; but who wanted to wait so long to be happy about herself? Not me. I wanted to be happy about myself now. I realized I was standing nude in front of my mirror and judging my breasts, my curves, and my waist. Was this sinful? Would I be punished for my vanity? Grandad would certainly say so. I thought. and I almost expected to hear a boom of thunder and see the sizzle of God's displeasure light up my bedroom windows.
