The story portrays a lot of scenes about social tensions— the tension between Rose and the guy she admired, and the tension between Rose and her mum— an uneasy relationship with friction in every moment they interact.
The main character in the story was Rose, a teen girl went to a vacation place with her family and met with her childhood friend Windy. During the vocation, Rose met a guy at a convenient store. Although she seemed to be interested in him, she didn't dare to talk much with him but secretly finding out his stories with his girlfriend Jenny. Rose didn’t talk with him much but discussed about him with Windy from time to time during the trip. Rose even pretend that she liked scary movies to seem cool to the guy even though she did not seem to enjoy it. The feeling of social awkwardness was shown when she went to the store. 
Besides the social awkwardness she had when she saw the guy, she also had a weird relationship with her mum. Her mum refused to swim and was extremely emotional about it, and she was also scared to have intimacy with her dad— she cracked a plate when he hugged her. Rose thought her mum wanted another baby, so Rose was angry at her mum for it, Rose was also angry at her not having fun and being so tense during the vocation. Not until one night she found out that her mum had a phobia towards the sea because she lost a baby before because of swimming, Rose realized she misunderstood her mum. She understood her mum behavior because of that.
Reading the story somehow made me uneasy because I also experienced similar social tension as a teen and it had impacted me a lot. However, it was a brilliant work with familiar scenes that readers can relate to, and it had an interesting theme too.
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