Slumber Party by Christopher Pike

      I've started reading the book Slumber Party by Christopher Pike. So far, it's about this group of girls ( Rachel, Dana, Lara, Celeste, Mindy, and Nell) who have gone to Nell's country house for the weekend. And, minus Celeste, the people at this slumber party are the same ones at the slumber party Dana threw 8 years ago when Nell's younger sister Nicole died. I'm only about halfway through the book but something that keeps coming up a lot is the similarities between Nell and Celeste.

     Before this, Nell and Celeste supposedly have never met each other before. I find this kind of weird because they are so much alike.  Their personalities match. They are both serious, quiet, shy, passive people. And most of the time the things they say are in the same melancholy sort of tone. For example: when Lara got back from skiing and asked Nell "How's Celeste?" Nell responds "She seems like a nice girl." She then later asks Celeste "How's Nell?" and then Celeste replies the exact same thing. It's such an odd coincidence that they would reply using each others' exact words.  


     Another thing about them is that they don't go out on group activities. So far, every time Lara or Mindy or someone would ask one of them to go skiing or go out to eat they would say no, they'd rather stay at home. This kind of makes sense because they are so alike so they like to spend time together. Celeste and Nell both like to cook. When they were having a party, Celeste and Nell spent hours in the kitchen by themselves.  But, even though they sometimes like to be together, they also seem to not want to talk to each other at times. For example: " 'It looks like Celeste and Nell are timing when they go in and out of the kitchen to avoid each other.'Lara thought." This part kind of confuses me because if they are so alike... why would they deliberatly avoid each other? 


     However, I can kind of understand why they would want to avoid each other. When someone is just like you, it means they have your good qualities, as well as the bad ones. So I could see how that would get annoying over time, it's basically like spending time with yourself, which would get boring. So, just like Nell and Celeste, I think it's important to spend time with people like you, but also your opposites.