The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Chapters 5-8)

Mary goes to tend to the patient and it turns out it is Travis, the boy she had a crush on for a long time. I predict that they are going to end up falling for each other even though he is already courted with Mary's best friend Cassidy. But Mary has a chance to tend to the one she loves so she is not going to stop and she will not give let him turn into an Unconsecrated. "I have seen such horror and such grotesqueness that it never occurred to me that I would feel light-headed and weak-kneed when I saw Travis's injury" (40).(S)  I think this shows that she really does love him because she did not even get "weak-kneed" when her mother was turning. Instead of prayer though she tells him stories of the ocean. The story her mother used to tell her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean.
Finally, after a significant amount of time, Cass and Henry finally come to visit Travis. Now Mary gets upset because she realizes that none of it can be real because Travis is courted already to her best friend, so she is in a bad position and I actually feel really bad for her. Also, Mary still pretends she cannot talk even though she already finished her scripture reading, so when Henry tries to apologize it is to her about not courting her, it is her advantage that she cannot say anything.
She has now moved on to different studies and she cannot see Travis anymore. But at night, she sneaks over to his room to be with him. Until one night, when they finally have there first kiss, and they get interrupted, "Perhaps a shift in the drafts around the room, maybe my ears popping as a door somewhere is opened, but I pull back a bit and meet Travis's eyes" (55). (CPCX). They hear the people walk around and they lock Travis in is room. They wonder what it could be as Mary leaves, hoping to come back but not sure if she can. When she gets outside and see footprints on the path that no one can go on, leading right up to the fence and into the Church. Mary concludes that means someone from Outside has come, and now she can leave her village.
Mary once again gets in trouble with Sister Tabitha. I really do not like her. She is way to mean and bossy. She talks to her about the Return, and because they have survived this far is because it is God's will because they all follow him. And the Unconsecrated did not and that is why they turned. She also tells Mary she actually does not belong in the Sisterhood so she will never be trusted and never find her place. Now that really brings Mary down because she did not want to be here in the first place. The sisterhood is keeping so many secrets from the village and Mary wants to know why.
Later, she is in Travis's old room when someone named Gabrielle knocks on the wall. She is the one from the outside. She sees that she is wearing a red vest, which is maybe some kind of trade mark from her old village. Or maybe it keeps the Unconsecrated away. I don't know but I really want to find out.