What Happens Next Analysis

I’m in someone’s room, in someone’s bed, and I don’t know how I got her. Then I remember and it all comes crashing down in a thousand jagged pieces. I jerked the covers back, relieved that all my clothes are still on. The clock on the nightstand says seven a.m. The bus leaves in an hour.(35)During this moment in time Sid realizes that she had made a big mistake about going to meet that boy. What Happens Next by Colleen Clayton is about a girl, Sid, who goes on a school ski trip to the mountains. Well after being left alone by her friends she meets a boy, Dax, on the ski lift. After she makes a deal about going to a party later that night she spends the rest of the day with him. Later back at the cabin she tries to convince her friends to go with her to the party but, they
She sees that her ribs are showing and she is 50 pounds lighter than she was seven months ago on the ski trip. So she starts to change that to and starts eating again, quits throwing up, and stops running. But then, while hanging out with her friends while on break she sees this newspaper with a picture of Dax on it. But the name was Tom, he was 28, and was arrested for at least a dozen rapes. At this point Sid is on the floor crying. She tells her friends what she remembers from that night at the ski resort and the newspaper article. Instead of telling Corey what happened they get into a fight. After Corey left her standing on the sidewalk, she goes to a new and completely empty house that her mom is trying to sell. She starts remembering more on what happened the night at the ski resort until she gets interrupted by a hug from Corey behind her. Her friends told him everything along with her mom. “I watch as the endless ribbons of water rock and swell under a quiet, cobalt sky, and I choose to believe. I choose to believe that I will be okay.”