Picking up from where we left off, Reeve and Janie goes to a motel, but leaves without doing anything. Then they go home at night, which then their parents come out and start yelling at them. While Janie was enjoying the parental feeling she was getting from her "parents", I couldn't help but feel a really awkward moment between Reeve's parents and Janie's parents. Reeve's parents were saying how the cult and the "Hannah issue" was a really big shock to Janie, and how they didn't know about it. Seems like to me, that they were helping Janie's parents keep a secret, and it was just that Reeve and Janie were too distracted by the scolding, the sudden relief that they weren't in trouble, to notice. As well, as much as Janie tries to accept the identity she has now, and assuring her parents that she wouldn't be another Hannah, Janie can't help but having nightmares, and thoughts constantly swaying her from what she assured to her parents. At the end, Janie's mom was even too scared to let her go to school, wanting to take the day off. She was worried sick when Janie had forgotten to call her when she went to library after school.
When Janie's mother was so scared of loosing her, and their reactions to Janie's arrival that night with Reeve, they gave me a really creepy feeling. They don't seem affectionate anymore, but instead, they seem obsessive and desperate, which seems kind of freaky. Ever since Janie found out about Hannah, they've been extremely protective of where she is and what she is doing, always reminding Janie about her promise of not being another Hannah... In the end when Janie was about to go to school, seems like her mother wanted to keep Janie by her side, not letting her go... Also, it doesn't seem fair that her parents were desperately trying to get Janie to stay and believe them, love them the same and never abandon them, yet in their minds and mouths, they keep mentioning Hannah. Janie was a bit-too-obvious replacement for Hannah, which furthermore makes her parents seem creepily insane.
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The parents do indeed seem to be freaky and over protective, but that is just how some parents are, more so that they have already lost one child. Its been said many times but it is a tradegy for their child to predecease them, and not an event anyone would like to be repeated. It would seem more creepy to me if the parents weren't a little bit more tense about their child.
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