Bittersweet Candy Bowl

I think that is what is going to happen, and it is either going to break Mike, or it will basically destroy his friendship with James (which would break Mike)

I actually really hope its Lucy that drops the “because he called the ambulance.”

Yessssss her calm melodic voice among the shouting.

Mike only has two speeds lmao

Is there a way to fix it? I cant access the new page 😭

its been like this the past few pages 😭 it really makes it hard on mobile

It works if you copy the link in a browser through a computer. On mobile it doesn’t work tho.

the latest page is always at https://bcb.cat/upcomingpage , anything after that is just used to redirect to the main site after the page the link pointed to is made free

I’ve just been copy/pasting the link into my browser and that’s worked for me to access the next page so far.

What do you mean?

so, to be clear, Augustus is very obviously not doing the right thing here. he’s working on a bunch of wrong assumptions and has outed information that’s completely inappropriate to out to a stranger. but stopping two people who you know can not safely be near each other from interacting is not a bad thing. Mike’s also pretty aware that, even if he doesn’t know what exactly it is, Augustus does have some kind of relationship to what’s going on (he knows Lucy and Augustus are close, it’s normal for friends to have an interest in their friends’ well-being), so saying it’s none of his business is just a meaningless deflection

the main issue with Aug’s reasoning is that they weren’t interacting

I agree

And while it’s time he confronts it, this is so much the wrong way to go about this

Even if it’s now fully out in the open, this is going to cause permanent damage on both sides.

Not to mention what I find disgusting is he literally just outed Lucy on her medical history, IN PUBLIC

August may care, but he doesn’t care about the collateral damage he’s causing and the consequences that will soon follow

It’s not just Junior Drama. He lives with Lucy and her family now. This is his one golden chance to graduate highschool away from Alej’s influence. To live in a house with an actual bed and get three meals a day, where he doesn’t have to steal. A lot of that hinges on Lucy’s mental well-being. He’s only being allowed to stay currently because he’s being seen as a god-send to Lucy. Mike doing the whole “break up with Sandy and now I’m gonna rebound on you Lucy” really has caused her to plummet as of late and he’s over it.

really calling out Tess here

LMAOOOO never liked her either!

It’s fully normal behavior to be a high schooler involved in social interactions of high schoolers? They all have relatively the same maturity level and life experience?

@Potat, yeah because a guy who should be in college and a 16 year old totally have the same maturity and life experience…

Didn’t David made it obvious he hates Mike for what he did to Lucy?

MOVED***

Yeah, I also think something is up with Lucy in this. She had enough frames to stop Augy from talking.

She has grown confident enough to realize she didn’t deserve to be treated that way. I think her passively allowing her friend to defend her is her just accepting she is someone worthy of being defended and is a sign of self worth forming. Shes not perfect but she’s faced consequences and evolved from them, Mike has not.

If that is your perspective on it, then thats cool! :)

Mike has been the Larry Bird of bad decisions lately in the story, sinking shots from the free throw line like it’s his job or something. But still, I look at Lucy and I only see half a victim, the other half is a bipolar bully who has been pretty shitty to people in general. Ultimately this feels a little Scott Pilgrim-ish with Mike being the obviously-crappy focal point.

It’s really telling actually that in the half of Lucy you apparently consider unworthy of compassion you literally described her not just as a bully but as having a mental health condition that effects stability. Bullying is one thing but I urge you to examine why you don’t think people who struggle with bipolar disorder don’t deserve your respect or sympathy.

Sorry if that irked you. Since this is online, you can only say so much in one breath. And I sympathize with them both, but I dislike Mike for not accounting for his emotional cowardice and I think Lucy has been growing more responsible, but has a history of acting with violence and not being particularly sorry about it. She is written as a person, but also this is with a soap opera lens and the character interactions are writ large thanks to the setting and age of its characters. She is more than her violent turns, but she has done a shit job of owning up to it in a fashion that plays as a great foil to Mike’s hiding behind facades and being afraid of the truth of his past transgressions. Hope that helps!

I also see Lucy this way and always have. She feels like the only character “allowed” to be a victim. Are we just forgetting Mike constantly had to reassure her feelings and felt like he was always walking on glass around her?