Ch. 6-7 Lily - A world of possibilities

I told Zach the other day that I wanted to be a write and today he brought me a journal to write my thoughts and stories in. He also said that society will never let us be together. I'm in love with him.
I've realized that story telling provides a way to get away from the harshness of reality, you are free from anyone else's control when writing. I'd like to write a story where Zach and I could be happy together. Perhaps if we wait long enough it will happen in real life too.

Ch. 6-7 Lily - Seperation

Rosaleen told me she's moving into the main house with May :( she says it'll make May feel more comfortable, but I'll miss her. I feel a little like she's abandoning me, even though I know she's not...

Ch. 6-7 Rosaleen - Head in the Clouds

That girl is living in a fantasy! What does Lily think she's doing? This new life may all and well be good right now, but it wont stay like this forever. What if her father comes looking for her? What about when the Boatwright sisters finally learn the truth or our circumstances? She's already cavorting around with a black boy, she'll never be able to have anything with him, it just wouldn't be accepted. That girl has her head in the clouds! She'd better come down soon or she may be in for some real trouble.

Ch. 6-7 Lilly - Getting to know Zach

Remember that boy, Zach, who August said would be helping with the bee farming? Well, I finally met him ~<3

He's a highschool junior, and he's African American, he wants to be a lawyer. He makes me feel things I've never experienced before, and I think I might have a crush on him. We've become good friends, working in the Honey house together.
I've started calling him an ass-busting lawyer as a nickname :)

Ch. 6-7 Lily - A Black Religion

Today I met for the first time the Daughter's of Mary, Augusts religious community. They're made up of six women and one man who wear these incredible hats, it kind of makes me laugh that there's a male daughter xD The service focused on the Black Mary statue and there was lots of singing and dancing and praying out loud. At one point, everyone took turns touching the painted heart of the statue, but when my turn came I was just so overwhelmed, I'd never experienced anything like this, that I fainted. It was kind of embarrassing...

Ch. 4-5 Lily - The racism in me

I never realized I was a racist too.
I'd always assumed that I was naturally smarter than African Americans, that they were all uneducated like Rosaleen, and that because I was white I was more intelligent, but then I met August and June. August is an educated business women, nothing like what I had thought blacks could be.

I'm starting to think that the color of your skin has nothing to do with your intelligence.

Ch. 4-5 Lily - Some Secrets are necessary

I've been thinking about it, and I've come to realize that lying isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes a secret is used to protect you, or someone else. I kept the box of Momma's stuff from T. Ray, he probably would have thrown it out if he'd known I'd had it, and then I never would have read the address on the back of Momma's picture and made my way to Tiburon. Like wise, I had to tell that lie to August, she might not have let me stay if she knew that I'd runaway from home and helped Rosaleen run from the law.
At the Boatwright house we also try to keep bad things that happen a secret from May, otherwise they'd hurt her.

So I've come to the conclusion that not all secrets are bad, and that sometimes, lying is necessary.