Blog #2 - Character

Okay so, I haven't read up to my second check point yet but the characters have gone through A LOT since my last post.

My main character is a twelve year old girl named Baby. Baby is very independent for her age, although she has just had her 12th. Jules is another main character, her herion-addicted father who is twenty-seven but acts nineteen. They have a very strong relationship, Baby loves her father and hates being away from him, and vise-versa, but he goes through a big rough patch in his life where he goes into the hospital for four months and leaves Baby stranded in a foster home of all boys and gets caught with heroin on him after getting baby back and going to jail and rehab, leaving her again.

Jules made a decision to lie to his daughter and social workers by telling them he stopped using so that he could get her back into his custody.

Baby had to make tough decisions to leave her father to get better in the hospital, and get along with the other kids in the foster home as well as move in with a neighbour the second time Jules left her.

Jules obviously loves and cares for his drug more then the well being of himself and daughter. After he comes out of rehab, what do you think will happen with him? Do you think this is the last he will leave Baby behind? <- this was my first question... but i've been reading. . . . . . . I've been reading some more and now I'm finally starting to get interested in my book.

Jules offered to stay in the Rehab center for an extra month, Baby only saw him once in three. After hearing that he wanted to stay longer, Baby got really depressed. She had contemplated death, and tried to convince herself that she was going to become addicted to drugs like her father. At her neighbour Marys house, the place she was living at while her dad was in rehab, Mary had gotten herself a new boyfriend and was always out. Her boyfriend looked somewhat like a "bum" or a "homeless person" but Mary liked him the way he was.

One night when Mary and her boyfriend Jean-Michel were out, Baby declared to Felix (Mary's son who was also 12), that she had Magic Mushrooms and that they should do them. They were alone in the house and decided to cook up some spagetti and eat them in the sauce. Long story short, they hallucinated and got nauseous and have now tried their first drug at the age of TWELVE!

After Jules got out of rehab and picked Baby up, she was heartbroken at the fact that there wasn't going to be a mother-like person for her, but she was excited to be with her father again. Jules started to become a whole new person, a mean person. His lungs started to get really bad so he had to go on medication that made him angry and crazy, and he would always freak out at Baby and accuse her of doing crazy things at night. One night after taking the medication, he dragged her to the couch and started yelling at her, accusing her of being a drug addict and that she was on drugs while they were speaking.

Baby also got her period one day, and was too afraid to tell Jules because she knew he would get mad, freak out and they would be even farther apart.

One drug lead to another, even though Jules isn't on Heroin, he's on a prescribed medicinal drug. With all these angry gestures and accusations givin towards Baby, what do you think is going to happen?