Someone Like You is a book about two young teenagers, Scarlett and Halley. Scarlett was more of a popular girl since she has moved into the same neighborhood as Halley. Halley didn’t do much interacting with other people. Halley and Scarlett love to share a lot of stuff together, since there best friends. As the two best friends begin their junior year in high school, things get off to a rough start. Scarlett’s boyfriend, she has gotten to know has just died in a motorcycle accident. Scarlett is later found out that she is carrying Michael’s baby, her boyfriend. They proceed to tell Scarlett’s mother and her mother books an abortion appointment. On the day of the abortion, Scarlett decides against it and calls Halley to pick her up from the clinic. Halley asks Macon to drive her there and he does. When they have picked up Scarlett, Halley’s mother sees them and assumes they are just cutting class. She tells Scarlett’s mother, who then enlists Halley’s mother’s help to sort a compromise. So now Halley’s mother knows about the pregnancy. Halley is then grounded.
Halley has a birthday dinner the next day with her family, the Vaughn family and Scarlett. Later she sneaks out with Macon. He takes her to the quarry where they make out, leaving Halley feeling as though the girl she used to be has left her and she was replaced by someone new.
The next chapters are focused on the changes that happen throughout Scarlett’s pregnancy and the pressures of Halley’s relationship with Macon, who is constantly asking her for sex. Although she thinks about it a lot she isn’t ready to and they start to become distant which isn’t helped by his secretive lifestyle. Elizabeth Gunderson, who has changed, drops hints about him cheating on her. Also her mother is forever asking her about Macon and she dislikes him despite never having met him. Halley is forbidden from seeing Macon. And everyone at school finds out about the pregnancy because Ginny, who can’t keep secrets overhears them talking in the bathroom.
Another disaster comes in the form of her Grandma Halley’s illness. She is quickly deteriorating. Halley shares a special bond with her grandmother because they share a name, named for Halley’s Comet, which they both watched years before.
When Halley decides to have sex with Macon at a New Year’s Eve party, Scarlett tries to dissuade her and they get into an argument. Halley gets drunk before she can do it, she throws up and Macon is furious. Whilst he is driving her home, he is too busy shouting at her to watch the road and they get into a car accident. Halley is seriously injured and taken to hospital and Macon never visits. Her mother is disappointed in her.
After Halley gets out of hospital, Macon comes to see her at her window. But Halley has had enough and breaks up with him which breaks his heart because he then realizes he’s in love with her. Her mother comes down and starts to shout at her for seeing Macon and then Halley explains what has just happened. She also tells her mother how she feels and they come to an understanding: both of them will try harder to get along.
Next is prom and with Elizabeth now dating Macon, and Halley goes to prom with the family-friend, and former boyfriend Noah. Noah gets drunk and rips Halley’s prom dress, and she gets angry and is then forced into the toilets where she bumps into Elizabeth. Elizabeth tells her that Macon still loves her but they are interrupted by the announcement that Scarlett’s in labor.
Halley and Scarlett and Scarlett’s other friend, Cameron, try to leave but the only transport to the hospital is Macon’s car. Halley calls her mother who comes down and helps her through it.
After the birth, Scarlett names the baby Grace Halley Thomas and everyone turns up in the waiting room; the school prom-goers and all Scarlett’s mother’s friends and they all come together in happiness of the birth. After everything has calmed down and everyone has gone home, Halley starts the walk home alone, but happy, thinking about the Grace Halley’s life ahead and what she could offer her.
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