second sisterhood of the traveling pants part2

The summer was going to start out the complete opposite of last summer. This time Bridget, Carmen, and Lena were going to stay home and Tibby was going away. Tibby is going to a film program at a college in Virginia. But, things changed when Bridget found these letters. One day Bridget went through her Dad’s drawers and she found these letters that were next to her report card. There were five letters, each written the year after the next. The letters were addressed to Bridget and her twin brother, Perry. The letters were from her Grandmother Greta, which is her Grandmother on her Mother’s side. I don’t remember if I said in one of the last blogs that Bridget’s Mother had died. Bridget’s Mother was very sick, and passed away when she was younger. Ever since then, all her friends and their Mom’s have had to look out for Bridget, because she became so vulnerable after the death. I couldn’t imagine losing someone so close. I bet Bridget went through a lot. Anyways, Bridget got mad at her Father for keeping the letters. In the heat of the moment she told her Dad that she was going to go to Alabama to visit her. Her Father was not too welcoming about the idea, because he said that Greta was the one to blame for many things that had happened in the family. I do not know what the things were, maybe the death of Bridget’s Mother. Maybe because her Father needed someone to blame, so he blamed it on Grandmother Greta. Bridget’s Father knew he could not keep her from seeing her Grandmother, so he let her go. I am not sure why she used a fake name to her Grandmother when she met her. Bridget was sneaking around to get to know her Grandmother, without her knowing she was her Granddaughter. She pretended she heard from neighbors that Greta needed some help in her house with chores. Then she introduced herself as Gilda, which was the name of the place where the ritual of the pants happened at. I guess I should explain what happened during the school year. Bridget felt like she lost herself, because of the things she went through. The thing with Eric made her change. Bridget had quit soccer, dyed her hair, stopped working out, and she just gave up on herself. I think that is why she felt like she had to go down to Alabama, to find herself again. Because when she was younger she grew up there, and she felt like she needed to get away from everything and start over. Greta talked about Bridget’s Mother occasionally and talked about her Grandkids, which makes it seem like Greta is a good Grandmother. I do not see why Bridget’s Father kept his kids from Greta. I like Bridget’s story so far, because it just shows that people can get confused and lost, even if they seem like the most confident person. She used to be this tough person, but her story shows its okay to have break downs, because I can see Bridget slowly finding herself in Alabama. I guess it just takes time to figure it out.