Hush, Hush- to page 128

This book was so great, I flew right through it. I will try to sum it up quicker than I usually would do, so I can move on to my next book, giving you the predictions I had at the time.

Patch continues to brood in a mysterious, dangerous, attractive manner. He tends to appear wherever she is, and Nora starts to wonder if he is stalking her. Nora finds herself feeling strange about him. She experiences strange events since she met him. A figure in a black ski mask keeps showing up in her life. The first night she see it (let's assume it is a he), he hits her car and starts tearing up the door. When she drives back to her friend Vee's house, there is no damage to the car. It just...disappeared. At this point in the book, I thought the figure in the ski mask was Patch, but he was in some sort of weird state of mind, because I didn't believe he would do act this way so openly around Nora. I didn't think he wanted to scare her like that.

The next day, Nora and Vee meet a guy, new to the school. His name is Elliot, they also meet his friend Jules. They develop a camaraderie with the two. But Nora and Vee have some sleuthing to do, they are going to sneak into the permanent records and look at Patch's file. But when Nora gets to it, it is empty. This makes it more difficult to be around him, because as much as he is seductive, he is scary. He seems genuinely interested, and if it wasn't for Nora's uneasy feeling around him, she would probably accept his invitation to go out.

Elliot is in Nora's gym class. He is a team captain, and picks Nora first, even though she is not good at sports, but he doesn't know that. He is putting on the show of showing her how to swing the bat in the whole hit-on-a-girl-by-putting-arms-around-her-and-show-her-how-to-do-something way. While she is up to bat, she hears a voice in her head, Patch's voice. She looks around, and he is standing behind the fence. He is giving her directions to the game, and he gets a home run, however freaked out about him telepathically communicating with her.

Vee and Nora meet Elliot and Jules at an amusement park. They are in the arcade, and Nora sees Patch there. Nora tries to stay clear of his path. Jules goes to the bathroom, but he doesn't come back. He seems to come up with excuses to leave a lot. Elliot offers the talk to Patch for Nora, but Nora says she will do it herself. She approaches him, and he tries to convince her to ride the Archangel with him, she refuses and goes back. She tells Vee and Elliot she needs a snack so she heads off. On her way there, she see the strange figure again. But then she runs into Patch, and he convinces her if she can ride the ride without screaming, he will tell the coach to switch seats in biology. On the ride she notices her seat belt had come undone and then the coaster veered a sharp turn and she fell out of she ride, onto the tracks and then into the air, falling to her death. But the next thing she knew, the ride pulled into platform. Freaked out, they go back to the arcade, Vee and Elliot and Jules nowhere to be found. They search the parking lot for a while, and can't call because Nora's phone is dead. She is forced to get a ride home from Patch, on his scary motorcycle. At Nora's house, Patch pretty much invites himself inside, and starts making dinner, an awkward/frightening situation. When he is holding the knife, Nora feels like she is in danger. So would I, if I were in her situation. In fact, I think I am a lot like Nora, so I would feel the same in most all situations. So she asks him to puts the knife, down and he denies any possible plans to hurt her. But before she can help it, they are almost kissing, they have an unspoken attraction it seems.