10th Grade Summer Reading Assignment: Entry Three: Looking For Alaska

"'This is going to end poorly,' he said to himself.
And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep,?'that sleep that is not particularly restful but is difficult to wake up from all the same. And then I heard the phone ring. I think. And I think, although I can't know, that I felt Alaska get up. I think I heard her leave. I think. How long she was gone is impossible to know.
But the Colonel and I both woke up when she returned, whenever that was, because she slammed the door. She was sobbing, like that post-Thanksgiving morning but worse.
'I have to get out of here!' she cried.
'What's wrong?' I asked.
'I forgot! God, how many times can I f*** up?' she said. I didn't even have time to wonder what she forgot before she screamed 'I JUST HAVE TO GO. HELP ME GET OUT OF HERE!'"

This section of the novel occurs after Alaska dare Pudge to make out with her, which obviously, he does. It then goes on to describe the scene, and comes to the selection that I have chosen. This is meant to hook the reader in two ways. The first is that it is highly enticing. The description and the 'I think' and 'I can't know' in the passage make you want to read faster. the more and more you read in this particular piece of the novel, the more and more questions you are bombarded with.

The second way it is meant to hook you goes back to the book structure. This piece is written under the last day, right before it switches over to the After half of the book. it also doesn't tell you what she forgot, forcing you to read on out of sheer curiosity.