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Ch. 1-9 pages 1-54
Lucy (Lucinda Scarborough) seems like your typical teenage girl. She is seventeen, just starting sating, pretty happy in general. She has great foster parents. and a best friend. The only problem in her life is her birth mother Miranda. Miranda is crazy and always appears out of nowhere, singing "Scarborough Fair" and wreaking havoc. Prom night is no different- Lucy's date comes to pick her up but Miranda shows up. -
Ch. 9-13 pages 54-71
Miranda throws glass bottles at Lucy and Zach (her friend and neighbor) and Soledad and Leo (foster parents). Gray Spencer (Lucy's prom date) runs off "like a little rabbit" in his new car when Miranda starts throwing. The police come and take Miranda, Then Gray comes back and Luce and Gray head to prom. Lucy has a wonderful time and she and Gray (now her boyfriend) don't drink or anything, just dance. At the end of the dance, Gray says he left his keys and Lucy and him go back to the empty room -
Ch. 13-20 pages 72-107
Gray and Lucy go into the ballroom. Gray rapes her. When she looks into his eyes she sees a demon possessing his body. Gray calls her "Fenella" and speaks in Latin. Zach finds her but was too late: Gray had already left. Zach brings Lucy home and Soledad (a nurse midwife) took care of Lucy (morning after pill). The next weeks are filled with news of Gray killing himself, but the rape is secret. Zach finds Miranda's notebook and Lucy reads it. Miranda believed there was a curse (in the song) -
Ch. 20- 33 pages 107-182
Lucy becomes aware of her feelings for Zach. She is still emotionally unstable because of prom night. Lucy feels weird, then finds out that despite everything, she is pregnant. Soledad tells everything to a new worker: Padraig Seeley. He seems to work magic. Lucy tells people about her pregnancy and refuses abortion. Lucy and Zach read letters from Miranda about a curse and how Miranda got pregnant with Lucy. Lucy believes Miranda about the curse. Lucy and Zach tell Soledad and Leo. They help. -
Curse (continued)
Her answer it came in a week and a day. P, s, r, and t. I'm sorry, good sir, I must answer thee nay. I'll not be a true love of thine. From the sting of my curse she can never be free. P, s, r, and t. Unless she unravels my riddlings three. She will be a true love of mine. Tell her to make me a magical shirt. P, s, r, and t. Without any seam or needlework. Else she'll be a true love of mine. -
Curse (continued continued)
Tell her to find me an acre of land. P, s, r, and t. Between the salt water and the sea strand. Else she'll be a true love of mine. Tell her to plow it with just a goat's horn. P, s, r, and t. And sow it all over with one grain of corn. Else she'll be a true love of mine. And her daughter's forever possessions of mine. -
Curse (explained)
The story of the curse goes as follows: Lucy's ancestress Fenella Scarborough caught the eye of an "Elfin Knight". She turned him down and he got angry, and cursed her. He forced her to be his true love and said that she would get pregnant at 17 by the man of his choosing and give birth then be his (and go crazy). The same thing would happen to her daughter, and so on, unless one Scarborough girl completed the 3 impossible tasks in the song. None have yet, and Lucy is pregnant at 17. -
Curse
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there. She must be a true love of mine. Tell her she'll sleep in a goosefeather bed. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Tell her I swear she'll have nothing to dread. She must be a true love of mine. Tell her tomorrow her answer make known. P, s, r, and t. What e'er she may say I'll not leave her alone. She must be a true love of mine. -
Ch. 33- 40 pages 183- 231
Zach confessed his love for Lucy. Soledad, Leo, Lucy, and Zach start to work on the three impossible tasks.They look at genetical data, medical data, adn the ballad itself. Zach finds that all of Lucy's ancestors gave birth at 17 then went crazy. Lucy says no to abortion again.Lucy researches a lot, then (with Soledad's help) makes the seamless shirt without needlework. Zach proposes. She says yes. -
Ch 40-44 pages 231-262
The Elfin Knight can feel the magic of the first round of the curse being completed. Lucy, Zach, Soledad, and Leo go to visit Miranda at a psychiatric hospital. Luce sees Miranda alone, and she is calm. Lucy asks Miranda to feel the baby. Then the night before the wedding, Lucy's bestfriend Sarah brings her to Sarah's house for a long talk about everything. Sarah reassures Lucy and teaches Lucy to recieve, not just give. -
Ch 44, pages 263-270
Lucy is getting ready for the wedding in her room with family and friends. Lucy is excited, but also very very nervous. She worries about a lot of different things. The dress is beautiful, even though it was a cheap maternity dress on eBay. -
Ch. 45-47, pages 271- 283
Lucy walks down the stairs, but both her and Zach experience a weird hazy, magical feeling that puts doubts in their hearts. Then they see each other and it goes away. They don't realize that the feeling was because of the Elfin Knight. The happy couple gets married and then Zach brings Lucy to their new home: a cute house that they are housesitting for a while. The two are happy, for now. -
Ch. 47-51 pages 283-313
Zach and Lucy are happy, but frantically scramble to find a solution to the curse. They argue about baby names while looking for a goat's horn and for an acre of land. Zach creates a contraption to make the plowing easier. Lucy begins to give up, and makes Zach promise to help their daughter figure out the curse if they can't. Then Lucy finds an acre of land in Canada that appears when the tide goes out. Lucy meets the Elfin Knight and tells Zach her idea about the Bay of Fundy & they leave. -
Ch. 51- 55 pages 315-338
Lucy feels the intense need to finish the last two tasks that day. Zach and she arrive at the Bay of Fundy, in the midst of a huge storm. Lucy starts working while Zach watches in agony. The the Elfin Knight visited Lucy and made her a deal to stop working and he would leave everyone alone. She doesn't consent, but she stops working. Zach comes and forces her to contine and finish the job. Lucy is in labor. -
Ch. 55- 57 pages 338-358
Once the jo is done, Zach rushes Lucy to a cottage, where they break in. Lucy gives birth with Zach's help. Lucy tells Zach about seeing the Elfin Knight, he says that he didn't see him. He is a bit doubtful of her sanity, but then the Knight comes back. Zach can't see him until he touches the seamless shirt, and then he sees him. The Knight says that Lucy needs to come with him, but she and Zach stand up to him and say that Lucy never agreed, just stopped work. She broke the curse. -
Ch. 57- end pages 358-364
Lucy is not insane and the baby, Dawn, is fine. two weeks later, Dawn is doing great and Lucy is getting ready for a family brunch. So far, there is no news of Miranda. Padraig Seeley (the Elfin Knight) has disapeared. Then when the families are together, a knock comes on the door. It is Miranda, and her sanity is restored! Lucy hugs her mother, and all is well. total: 1785 pages
