<Tab/>In the novel, Waiting Games, by Bruce Hart, Jessie struggles to listen to her heart. Jessie is a thirteen-soon-to-be-fourteen year old girl who begins to develop into an attractive young lady. She began taking guitar lessons and she started to fall for her instructor, a sixteen year old guy named Michael. As Michael gave Jessie more attention, she started to fall deeper into what her heart was telling her. Jessie and Michael did not care for their age difference because they thought that what they had was love. Nothing mattered to Jessie except for Michael because she t…