Post #6 Book 3

Tiffany King

    Abby Abernathy is the main character in the book, Beautiful Disaster. Abby does not like attention, at all. She tries to stay quiet and sort of out of everybody’s way. That is until she caught Travis Maddox’s attention. Travis is the campus’s “bad boy”, he gets all the girls and he fights in random basements for a living. Until he meets Abby.

    Most people can see this becoming a disaster. Abby, the innocent smart good looking new-ish girl, ending up with Travis. When Abby first meets travis, she is disgusted by him. She doesn’t like the way he treats girls and has sort of a charm to him that she absolutely despises. Travis will not leave Abby alone, when she finally agrees to go out with him they decide they can be friends, but when Abby’s best friend America forces her to move in with Travis and his roommate Shepley (America’s boyfriend) things get a bit complicated.  

Abby and Travis go through their time living together trying to fight their feelings. Travis starts to learn that Abby isn’t as innocent as she comes off to be and he is determined to find out the truth. Abby learns that Travis isn’t such a bad guy after all, and that he really cares about her even if he tries to hide it. Throughout their ups and downs Travis and Abby realize that it’s not one another that makes their relationship worth something, it’s them being together.

1. Abby Abernathy –  Abby is the type of girl that likes to keep to herself, she is afraid of her past and nobody really understands why, except her best friend America. Abby is constantly worrying about what people are thinking about her. When travis starts to show interest in Abby she kind of pushes him away because she’s afraid of what people are saying about their friendship. Travis eventually helps her over come that fear. Travis also saves Abby’s life in a way. While trying to help her father she almost gets herself killed but Travis was right there by her side and he was not letting anything bad happen to her
2. Travis “Maddog” Maddox- Travis seems satisfied with his life. He hooks up with random girls, throws them to the side when he’s finished and he’s used to having girls just hang all over him. When he is shut down by Abby time after time he has to get to know her more. Travis has been needing someone in his life to mean something to him like his mother did before she died. Abby is that girl, Travis instantly falls in love with her and even though Abby doesn’t know it, Travis can’t live without her. He finds everything he needs in one girl that doesn’t take any of his crap and keeps him in line. He finds out really quick that Abby isn’t as innocent as she seems which only makes her more irresistible to him.
3. Shepley- Shepley is Travis’s cousin also his bestfriend. They live together and he is also the reason that Travis meets Abby. Shepley is dating America, Abby’s best friend and he is absolutely terrified that if Travis does something stupid to mess things up with Abby that things might be bad for him and America. America tries and tries to convince him that it won’t happen but it does. Multiple times, but still Shepley is supportive and helpful to his cousin adn his relationship. He loves Travis and Abby together because no fighting means no taking sides and that means that him and America are just as happy
4. America- Abby’s best friend since before they went to college. Abby practically lived with America and nothing would break them apart. Not even boys. America was always looking out for Abby’s best interest and she doesn’t let anyone get in the way of that. not even Shepley and she’s not even afraid to stand between her and Travis if he’s being unfair. She loves her boyfriend but she loves her best friend even more and she knows that the best thing for Abby is to be with Travis, she does her very best to make sure that happens and that Abby is safe and happy
5. Surviving- Throughout the book Abby and Travis’s relationship face some pretty difficult things. They go through a fire, break ups, Abby dating someone else, Travis’s “fan girls” but in the end they realize that they couldn’t have made it through any of the tragedies that have happened without each other. They are stronger as a couple and they should and will stay that way. It’s safer for everyone.