Shatter Me- Chapter Ten- Good God, What Did I Sign Up For?!

Before we begin this chapter, there is something that must be said. And yes, I am posting this extra chapter before The Night Circus. Deal.

I have just finished rereading Shatter Me, and I must say: Earthlings, we are in for so much more emotional manipulation than I have said. Tahreh Mafi spends the first book making you join Team Adam and then spends the rest of the trilogy convincing you that you were an idiot for joining Team Adam. There a few chapters in Unravel Me and Ignite Me, two in particular, that I won't even be able to summarize. I'll just have to quote them in their entirety. In Shatter Me, though, during most of the romance between Adam and Juliette, I'll be warning everyone not to get too attached. It's not easy.

With that out of the way...

This chapter begins with Adam leading Juliette away from her future lover. It's obvious him saying her name still greatly affects her, but she refuses to take his hand.

Instead, he puts his hand on her back to guide her, and this also has a pretty serious effect on her. He tells her they're going outside, something she hasn't done for the better part of a year.
She's so amazed by the experience of being outside that she doesn't even get to metaphor.

She's brought back when Adam touches her, and now that there's no one else around, he can finally stop being an ass.

"'Are you okay?' His eyes surprise me. They're the same ones I remember, blue and bottomless like the deepest part of the ocean. His hands are gentle so gentle around me."

She continues lying to him about not wanting him to touch her. They go for a pleasant tank ride, and Juliette continues to silently spout exposition about The Reestablishment like a damn fountain. I'm not gonna bother to go over it. It's a carbon copy of every overpowering government in every dystopian YA novel, so believe me when I say there's no new information.

The tank ride ends at a building much larger than the asylum.
When she gets out of the tank, Adam is holding her waist, and she continues to pretend she doesn't like it that way. This is going to continue for another...nine chapters!? Are you kidding?!

Sigh...this chapter ends with them entering the building, where, after 54 pages I promise she'll stop being so stupid.

The Night Circus Chapter Twenty-Two will be up later today and next chapters of both will be up tomorrow. It's getting more difficult to keep writing on my phone like this. I think my fingers are suffering from cello withdrawals.