weird

Okay so I noticed that for the first time, we see that it is not Mr. and Mrs.Lisbon who have all the control, but the city itself running the family as a whole, along with other families in the area. "... it was clear our trees were not ours but the city's, to do with as it wished" (179). This goes along with the fact that their yards and lawns were everything to them yet the city could take it away...Also, the city? who is the city? Like "to do with it as it wished" who is the "it" making these decisions for everyone else?
The word actually is never good with these boys. Particularly in this chapter, I think I hear them attempting to draw conclusions with information that they don't really have and constantly have to go back on themselves and say "well actually" or "the truth is" in that a fair amount of the things we're reading could be completely not true at all and they know it.
One boy refers to the Lisbon girls and says that "They're just memories now" (186). It's SO weird that these boys live across the street from the Lisbon girls, stalk them every single day, think about them every single minute, and can say that while they are still living they are nothing but memories. They also mention that "a year had passed and still we knew nothing" (187). This is interesting because they've narrated a lot of a book so far considering they know nothing... it just makes us as readers question the boys even more and it is very very clear that they are questioning themselves as well... until...
They make a big old assumption and think that because of a late night song swap with the Lisbon girls that they want to run off together and elope after never really speaking before. It also is completely pathetic to me that they're all sitting there around this phone listening desperately to the music these girls are playing and are actually trying to relate it to having real experiences with them like "going to a concert" or being able to hear their heart beat. I don't know this whole scene seems really weird to me.