*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*SPOILER ALERT*
This is part 13 of my review and summary of Intensely Alice for those of you who have not been able to read the book yet and are dying to know what happens.
WARNING: Please do not continue reading if you do not want to know what happens.
Chapter Fifteen – Settling In
When Alice, Liz, Pamela, and Gwen enter Lester’s apartment, they see signs with instructions all over the place. Pamela immediately calls Lester’s room when Alice reminds her that she signed an agreement not to go through is stuff. Liz picks George’s room and Gwen takes Paul’s room. Alice says to her friends that they have an apartment to themselves, fully furnished, for ten days, but Pamela remarks that it is too bad they cannot party.
As the girls make dinner, Alice cannot help but feel excited feeling independent like she was in a rented apartment with a career. Pamela gives a toast to their future careers or first apartments before realizing they probably would not be eating steaks if they were first starting out. Gwen then says that Paul seems like an interesting guy based on the his wide range of books in his room. Liz says that she would not want to marry George based on all his finance books. Pamela, with a mischievous smile, says all Lester has are comic books and The Erotic Drawings of Mihaly Zichy! Alice tells her that she is not suppose to snoop and Gwen tells Pamela to sit down and eat or else she’ll tie her up for the evening, but before putting back the book, they have a glance at Lester’s book. After dinner, the girls go check on Mr. Watts.
While sitting around, the girls are predicting their friends and their own futures when the phone rings. There is pause after Alice says hello. A female voice then asks to speak to Lester, but Alice tells her that Lester is gone in Utah for ten days. The woman does not believe Alice is his sister, but instead accuses her of being his girlfriend or wife. Alice is taken back and asks where this woman meant Lester. The woman says she meant Lester at a bar before abruptly hanging up. Alice and her friends do not know what to make of the situation, but want to ask Lester when her returns.
The next night, the girls cook dinner for Mr. Watts. His secret, he says, to staying healthy at ninety-two is doing everything people tell him not to (i.e. eat sugar, red meat, etc.) Not before long, Liz is tired so the girls help Mr. Watts clean up and makes sure he gets into bed before heading back upstairs. After they fall asleep, they awaken to an unfamiliar noise of a stranger in the apartment. They all huddle together scared. They head into the bathroom because that is the only room with a lock. In the bathroom, they find out none of them have a phone to dial 911 so they devise a plan. Two of them will bang loudly on the metal pipes with anything they can find and two of them will yell for help out the window hopefully awaking Mr. Watts. When the intruder starts to jiggle the bathroom doorknob, the plan goes into action until they hear a voice telling them to stop making all the noise. It’s Mr. Watts voice. As the girls open the bathroom door, they see Mr. Watts standing there, one hand holding the pineapple upside-down cake from dinner and one hand holding a flashlight. It turns out he was hungry so he went upstairs to the kitchen to get some since he knew the girls probably would not let him have anymore. Relieved, the girls cut him a slice and explain to him why they were all in the bathroom.
MY TAKE: This chapter brought back the Alice humor for me. I could not stop laughing when I was reading about the lady caller and the intruder. This is the reason why I continue to read the Alice books because of moments like these. Mr. Watts and Pamela also each have their own way of being mischievous that it adds another layer of humor to the story.
Be sure to check out other Intensely Alice updates including chapter summaries and reviews (spoiler alert!), surveys, polls, and more!
No Comments, Comment or Ping
Reply to “Intensely Alice – Part 23”