See, this is YA thing I like about you. It's not all hard-and-fast rules, not all Thou Shalt Do It This Way. It's *okay* for a character to screw up by the numbers, because real life is that way. I suspect you have an idea of just how rare that is. And, happily, it's not just you, it's a number of people who are probably reading this... SiliconShaman, DialecticDreamer, and Chanter_Greenie in particular, but they're not the only ones... who are writing life, not The Perfect Fairy Tale. It's *messy*. Lovably so.