<Tab/>In the novel, Waiting Games, by Bruce Hart, Jessie struggles to listen to her heart. Jessie is a thirteen-soon-to-be-fourteen year old girl who begins to develop into an attractive young lady. She began taking guitar lessons and she started to fall for her instructor, a sixteen year old guy named Michael. As Michael gave Jessie more attention, she started to fall deeper into what her heart was telling her. Jessie …showed first 75 words of 421 total…

…showed last 75 words of 421 total…inexperienced, virgin Jessie by not assuring her that he used protection. The result of that led to Jessie worrying for about a month that she might be pregnant. The main bitterness that was expressed in this novel is how Michael led Jessie on throughout the whole time, telling her that their love was real and that she shouldn't believe other people but in the end, he left her to live the life of a celebrity.