Her brother, Zack, wants them to get one, but Mia's not so sure.
Mia starts slowly getting back to normal when she learns that Mango has a bunch of kittens at the neighbor's house.
Synesthete or not, he's clearly not on her level. Mia is super hurt and vows not to be around him anymore. In fact, he doesn't see what the big deal is. On the flipside, Adam doesn't care all that much about Mango dying. Luckily, Jenna is there for her-she doesn't care about how distant they've grown in the last few months.
Of course her parents explain that it's not her fault, but still, she feels bad. She blames herself for being too preoccupied with her condition and not focusing enough on her cat. Her beloved cat, Mango, seems more tired and sluggish every day. Oh, and Mia's still struggling in math class.īut Mia has even bigger problems than flunking math and losing her bestie. Understandably, Jenna gets annoyed and the two girls grow apart. Mia is loving it-she finally feels like she belongs, especially when Adam kisses her. She finds she'd rather try new techniques to enhance her colors (like acupuncture and bubble baths) than she would listen to Jenna talk about her birthday party plans, and she even goes to a synesthesia event where a bunch of other synesthetes talk about their experiences. Mia dives into the process of exploring her synesthesia. Takes one to know one, you know? Soon she starts spending more time emailing Adam, a fellow synesthete, than she does hanging out with her BFF Jenna. Mia's colored hearing and numbers stops feeling so strange once she meets a bunch of other synesthetes. After a couple appointments and about a zillion questions, Mia learns she has synesthesia, which means she basically perceives things in two ways (instead of just one). She finally fesses up to her parents about what's going on, and they take her to see a doc. Keeping her secret becomes increasingly hard after she fails a couple math tests as a teenager, though. She quickly learns to keep her mouth shut about the colors she sees in numbers and sounds. Mia figures this is how everyone sees the world, but one day in math class, after she's laughed at and called a freak, she figures out that it's actually only her. If she doesn't match the right colors with numbers, she has a hard time adding or subtracting-and you can go ahead and forget about multiplying. Cool, right? For Mia, though, this isn't just a fun way to think about numbers it's reality.
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