Mac started breaking free of acting “fine” or even “perfectly fine” after she begins her part-time job at a catering company finding new motley diverse group of friends which made her realize it’s okay to embrace life without fear. Deborah Queen, Macy’s obsessive mother for luxury developments, and keeping herself busy since her husband died. One of the many flat characters of the story. She’s gotten used to the “perfect” Mac which made her not ready into seeing Mac finding herself especially she’s still having a trouble with her grief in the same way.
Caroline Gone, once a rebel in her teenage years. After all that rebellion, Macy’s sister had fallen hard for Wally from Raleigh, ten years her senior and turned out to be surprisingly efficient and lives in with her husband in Atlanta. The only member of the family who shed tears and showed grief during their father’s death. One of the many flat characters as well. Delia, owner of the Wish Catering. She’s pregnant with a child and still continues to work despite her being pregnant. West and Beret’s loving aunt who supports them and also belongs in the flat characters.
Kristin Palmetto, one of the motley diverse group in the Wish Catering and became Macy’s very good friend. She’s a bright girl who always wears a smile despite the trouble thefts facing in the service. She’s one of the static characters. Monica Palmetto, Kristin unlikely sister. She’s a less flamboyant sister, and she doesn’t speak often. Unlike her sister being positive, she’s an accident-prone server for Wish Catering. One of the static characters as well. Wesley ‘West’ Baker, also works for the Wish Catering, and is Deli’s nephew.
He was once sent to a youth center and his crime was a one off, regretted and learned his lesson discovering his hidden artistic talent while there. His relationship with Mac is really close. They both shared their secrets while playing the “Truth or Dare” and realizing their own linings for each other without them noticing which made it too perfect. A dynamic character as well.
We learn about how her dad’s death has changed her for being the “perfectly fine” daughter for her mother, and how she’s trying to deal with it. While it’s already summer, when her uptight boyfriend emails her that he wants a break from their relationship, Mac is finally ready into taking a risk-getting a job with Wish Catering. Which sets all the good stuff into motion.
- Element of the Plot Exposition – Mac Queen is going for nothing less than perfection. She’s dating Jason Tallboy, the perfect guy, and spends all her time studying, helping her mom at work, or volunteering with Jason. But the reason she’s so focused on controlling every aspect of her world is that her dad died recently, and she’s looking for something safe and sure to grab hold of.
- Rising Action – When Jason goes away for the summer, he emails her that he thinks they should take a break from their relationship. Ugh. Mac flings herself into a double life: working with the brainier snobs at the library by day (which she hates), and working with her crazy new friends Delia, Kristin, Monica, Bert, and West as a caterer by night (which she loves)
- Climax – All the chaos of catering opens Mac up to experiencing life wholeheartedly again. But as her friendship with West, and her newfound happiness blossom, her mom comes down really hard on her, cutting her off from Oh, just about everything that’s made her life worth living again.
- Falling Action – Her sister Caroline has been irking on helping their mom through her grief by getting her and Mac to help remodel their dad’s old beach house. But nothing she or Mac do or say seem to be getting through her, until the night of the grand opening gala for the new townhouses her company has been building.
Everything that can go wrong goes wrong, but just when Mayo’s mom feels most out Of control, her daughters and Delia and her crew step in to Save the day. Macy’s mom relaxes her death grip, Mac breaks up with Jason for good, and she starts dating West. He’s the one that she wants. And life is good again.
