Blue Eyes-Love

"...Your heart got broken to your surprise. You're sick of crying for blue eyes"- Mika "Blue Eyes"

This chapter just seemed like a shattered dream to me. Jimmy Cross used Martha to push him through the war. So far his family isn't mentioned, so perhaps he doesn't even have one. So he uses Martha to push him through the war, making her the reason he's living. Yet 20 years later even when he tells her he loves her "She kept walking and didn't answer and then after several minutes looked at her wristwatch and said it was getting late" (page 28) (*awkward turtle*). Seriously Martha, did you think you guys would only be good friends after you wrote letters, sent pictures and a lucky stone to this young man? So this becomes another thing Jimmy has to carry along with whatever troubles that Jimmy doesn't want Tim to put in his book. I think that mistake is having Lavender killed on his watch but that ended up in the book already so I guess the world will never know.
At least it seems that Jimmy has moved on, I mean the picture from Martha is still intact.