"I'm always looking forward and not looking back." Do you think you could have a rough life and keep going forward and not quitting? Bobby and Nia are sixteen years old and are pregnant. The way Bobby finds out about the baby is Nia is sitting on his front porch with a red balloon. we eventually find out that after the birth, Nia goes in to a coma. Nia experience eclampsia, which is a seizure during a woman's pregnancy. while Nia is in the coma, Bobby has to take care of Feather. Adding on to the stress, he has to wake up every night to take care of Feather, then he has to take her to the babysitter and head to school, and then finally work. through the book Bobby is going to experience some changes that will change his world.
The red balloon that Nia gives to Bobby, symbolizes a child. Nia is trying to tell Bobby that she is pregnant. "Just sittin' there with a balloon, looking all lost." "I'll never forget that look and how her voice shook when she said, Bobby, i've got something to tell you. then she hands me the balloon." Nia is upset, because she knows she did something wrong, and she's going to have to tell Bobby. The red balloon showing that Nia and Bobby are going to have to grow up and take care of a baby. They are going to have to act more responsible now.
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This symbolizes that she doesn't want to be a mom at this young of age, she still wants to be a kid. the more she thinks of the field trip, the more she thinks it will help her forget that she is pregnant and is in the prenatal care office. "I know she's trying to pretend she's not here. trying to pretend it never happened. trying to pretend we're just on some field trip." Nia doesn't want to think that they are in a prenatal care office, because they are sixteen and