 This becomes a bone of contention between the two friends, with Ginger worrying that Macie might lose herself in the charade and Macie eager to bask in her parents' attention once more, leading Macie to openly reject her friend's well-intentioned meddling.Despite Ginger's fears, Macie is shown to have had a firm grip on reality all along, and after commenting that reliving her childhood has been great, assures her friends that she'll tell her parents she is thirteen.Macie already knew Dodie when they both met Ginger in second grade, and at the start of junior high, it seems that Macie would have been happy keeping things as they were, not being too eager to grow up.