just finished listening to the penderwicks at point mouette audiobook again and i just can't get over how clearly skye and jeffrey were set up to be something,,, romantically?? not even just with all the marriage talk and the post-alec-reveal-scene by the ocean where she would NOT leave his side but i had almost forgotten about the entire jealousy thing that skye briefly had going on when jeffrey mentioned his musician cousin (2000s childhood/teen media's obsession with kids dating their cousins should be studied but anyway) ??? i just still can't see why jeanne birdsall would handcraft them for each other and present their bond so visibly different from e.g. jane & jeffrey's or even batty & jeffrey's like there was something so open and honest and emotional about skyeffrey's relationship especially in book 3 that none of the other pairings even came close to, just for them to feel like different people in spring & at last. like she really made it look like jeffrey was forcing himself onto skye against her will when she was so obviously crushing on him (in a confused, skye-esque, 12-year-old kid kinda way) in point mouette. idk i just wish they were treated differently (and i really really really don't like the concept of battyffrey)
