We’d like to thank Jared and Tate for stopping by Naughty and Nice Book Blog. We promise that the two of you will leave unscathed. We are going to ask some tough questions and if you are not comfortable answering them, please let us know.
Jared: "Oh, I will."
We are going to start this interview with Jared, then we will turn our attention to Tate and get her perspective on things.
"I wanted to make myself untouchable.
Pushing Tate away—lashing out—it was more about cutting her out of me than
cutting her up."
Your words and actions crushed Tate, you made her not want
to come to school. You made her
uncomfortable in her own home. Why did
you find it necessary to try and break her?
"I hated that I loved her. I
thought that I’d been forgotten. I didn’t see it so much as me trying to break
her but me trying to crush the hold she had on me. It was about getting control
of myself. Of about not caring for anyone."
How did you feel when Tate said, and I quote “You’re a
miserable piece of shit, Jared. But
then, I guess I’d be miserable, too, if my parents hated me. Your dad left you, and your mom avoids
you. But who can blame them, right?”
"It’s in the book. I really don’t
want to go there again."
Do you regret the way you treated Tate?
"Everyday." If you were given an opportunity for a “Do Over”, what would you do?
"I would’ve ripped through the tree the night she got back from Europe and told her everything."
"She was better. She was too good for the crowd I ran with.
Tate’s smart, driven, and thirsty for the world. I never truly wanted to see
her lose any of that and get caught up in bullshit."
"Kind of. It felt good to let go
of the anger and hate, but then I was scared that I was opening myself up to
more pain and disappointment. It was hard for me to take chances like that."
Have you let go of the pain from your past concerning your
father?
"Does anyone? The damage will
always be there to some extent. I have anger, disgust, and a heap of other
emotions, but I know he can’t hurt me." "I got Until You added to my torso tattoo, and I’m planning another one to cover about half of my back, but I’m not telling anyone what it is yet. Including Tate."
How
would you describe the real Tate?
"Snarky. And mine."
Did you
ever think you and Madoc went too far?
"With Tate? Sure. I’m not a machine. I always felt guilt. But the
more I lashed out, the foggier she got to me. It was like she was disappearing
from my life and my memories. So I kept doing it, hoping to wipe her away
completely. But it didn’t work."
When
the Race Master turned the rematch into a rematch of cars but not drivers what
did you think?
"Shit. Fuck. Kill."
Tell me
about the fossil?
"It’s something I need. Tate let me keep it."
What
did you think about Ben?
"Look, Ben’s a decent guy. He
doesn’t talk trash, and he’s nice to people. We’ve always gotten along."
"He was never going to have Tate,
though."
"At first, it felt great to lash
out and try to tear him apart, but then it didn’t. What I said to him was mean
and served only to hurt him. That wasn’t me. I didn’t want Jared hurt. I wanted
him to stop."
You mention that a part of you died when your mom died, but
when you met Jared that part came back. That
you didn’t hurt anymore. How did you
feel when Jared left you without any explanation as to why?
"At first I was confused. I
didn’t know why he was avoiding me, not talking to me, slamming the door in my
face when I tried going over to his house. I tried to think over and over again
what I could’ve done to make him so mad. And then, I just felt so alone. Like I
had absolutely nothing to look forward to the next day."
"Then I got angry."
When the video of you and Jared went viral, as a reader, I
wasn’t sure it was him that did it, yet you automatically you assumed it was. At that point, Jared was winning your heart
over and was showing you how much he loved you.
Do you wish you would have waited to talk to Jared before damaging his
car?
"Of course. Now I know the truth,
but when it happened, I was anything but calm."
What did you think when you first found out your best friend
was seeing Jared?
"Betrayed."
And Jared, what were your motives in dating
her? Was it just to piss Tate off?
"No. I didn’t
really want to take her best friend. I wanted to make her hate me."
Have you forgiven Jared for everything that he has done to you in the past?
Will you ever truly trust Jared 100%?
"We’re working on it."
What thoughts went through your mind when Jared asked you to
drive his car for the rematch? You seemed confident.
"I had no doubt the race would be
easy, and I was thrilled and disappointed at being thrilled. I didn’t want
Jared to know that I wanted to do it."
Jared, do you think you have earned Tate’s trust back?
We’re going to wrap this interview up. But before we go, we’d like for the both of
you to tell us something about each other that we don’t know. It can be anything.
Tate: "Jared and I dressed up as
Darth Vader and Princess Leia for Halloween when we were 11."
Jared: "You had to tell them
that? Alright, well…Tate cries every
time she watches Rudy. And she watches it a lot. Like it’s still a tear jerker
that he gets to play football at the end! After 100 times, you’d think she’d
get over the fact that—yes! —Rudy got to play football!"
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