Deadly Little Lies

I stare at you, long to hold you near,

But you look away, ignore me,

Then I follow your lead, and look in other directions,

And suddenly go back to the past, and look at me once I again,

Except I am gone,

Can I ever let myself come back?

            This poem basically sums up the relationship between Ben and Camelia in the book Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Stolarz. This book is a sequel to the book Deadly Little Secrets, and has a very similar plot. It is about a girl who is basically being stalked by someone, and receiving death threats, and she is trying to figure out who. While this is happening she is also figuring out that she’s a little by physic. She is a sculptor, and recently she has been sculpting random things like a pomegranate, or a horse, and then seeing them somewhere later. She is also hearing voices in her head, then actually hearing them later.

            While this is all going on she is madly in love with this guy Ben. Ben loves her back, but is scared to be with her, because he doesn’t want to hurt her, and he sort of accidentally killed his ex-girlfriend. Since Ben refuses to be with her, she starts to like this guy she works with, Adam. The only problem she sees though is that Adam isn’t Ben. Although, it turns out later that Adam Was Ben’s ex-girlfriends boyfriend before she died, and he came back two years after she died to get back at Ben by taking Camelia from him, although he actually starts to like her, even though she’s in love with Ben.

            So anyways, this poem relates to their relationship because Camelia is madly in love with Ben, which the poem represents by looking, but Ben refuses to acknowledge her, and like the poem, even refuses to look at her, so she gives up and moves to Adam, but then Ben realizes that he can, and wants to be with her, but she really likes Adam, and after everything she doesn’t know if she can even let herself be with Ben, especially cause she realized that he really can hurt her. Anyways eventually she realizes Adam was a jerk for what he did, and even