Bittersweet Candy Bowl

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LUCY INSTANTLY REGREts IT OH MY GOD

Let’s gooooooooo 🙏🏿

Wait is my memory fuzzy or is this some new lore dropping?

Oh boy

Oh yes now she speaks

This. This is progress.

It’s clear that, despite everything, the trials and tribulations, Lucy WANTS TO CHANGE. And in this instant, she catches herself (albeit a bit late) from falling into her usual violent ways.

However, I am curious as to where she is getting at with this question.

Lucy…. :(

Mike was being a dickhead, but I am so glad that Lucy actually shows remorse in kicking him in the gut like that. I cant wait to see where this conversation ends up!! theyre actually speaking to each other!!

Luccyyyy :(

I knew Lucy would hate that she felt the need to resort to violence, and it makes sense that she would react violently to Mike saying that “she” had been leading “him” on.

That may have been how it started in grade school, after Mike tried to kiss Lucy in her room, but once Mike had Sandy, Lucy’s feelings (or lack thereof) shouldn’t have bothered him anymore.

And it’s especially galling for him to bring this up after what he pulled on the hill after the temporary break-up. If anything can be considered ‘leading someone on’, it would be confessing your feelings and kissing someone the night before and then acting like it meant nothing the day after.

I like the detail that even in the heat of the moment, you can see her brow waver just a little

come on girl, make what you said in Another Choice canon, Mike needs to know how early this shit all started

Well, this is heartbreaking

Semi related I kinda hope she brings up what she said before Mike blew up at her in December, based on the advice Augustus had given her at the library earlier that day: That she was happy for him and was glad to see him happy with someone else (Even if she wishes it was her, instead) Even if it hurt her, she was willing to stand by and watch him be happy with Sandy. I think given time, and Mike having not gone off on her like that while establishing proper boundaries, they could have had a healthier friendship by this point. But also they’re teens and teens aren’t known for their Controlled emotions. Wonderful page though!! Excited to see where this goes

All of this going and James and David are just in the bg like: 🧍‍♂️🧍

There it is. That look of regret and will is powerful; she genuinely doesn’t want any of this, or to be that person she once was lashing out when anger spikes.

I am proud of her. Mike looks pathetic and wholly diminished.

Please just let then talk it out now

Please let their be closure for both of them

Ooooooo, the look on Lucy she really looks like she doesn’t want to resort to being violent and to actually have a conversation that both of them need to have. I just hope Mike now reads the room and doesn’t go backwards and actually for both to come to a mutual understanding and maybe later on the road come to a full thorough discussion about the issue at hand.

Even though Lucy resorted to violence, I think Mike deserved it. He has no place accusing Lucy of leading him on when she used to always avoid her feelings for him due to her Tsundere personality back then. She always turned him down even though they both knew she just wasn’t ready to accept her feelings. Im just sad that her hitting him made her feel bad. Mike needs to learn to stop lashing out and let things go. He just bottles everything up and dwells on it. He’s so inside his own head he cant even see what’s happening around him. Im also surprised Lucy is even speaking to him about the past right now. She knows the truth, she got her kick in, but now shes taking the time to speak her piece. I hope she tells him that shes fully done with even acknowledging him and tells him to just move on. I hope this is the line in the sand; We no longer know eachother, consider us strangers and dont seek me out. And to Augustus, I hope she tells him to leave Mike alone and let the past be the past. They all need to move on.

cropping these previews is an art

Oh, the look of instant regret. Seems she realized that wasnt it but certainly isnt going to apologize.

If Lucy didn’t want to be with Mike, it was only because she couldn’t tolerate knowing she was his second choice at all times.

Notice how they both had a reason for exploding. Yet only Lucy is ever given the benefit of the doubt for exploding. This time it’s just because she, “felt bad” after the fact. I love Lucy as much as the next person. Yet the double standard is real. Especially, since people blamed Sandy for the end of Mike & Lucy’s friendship because she pointed out Lucy was always hitting him. Though, never once blamed Lucy for being violent in the first place. Yet the first time Mike ever hit anyone he was demonized for it. When Lucy got away with it for years, because her actions were deemed as funny.

Augh, you can tell Lucy instantly feels Awful about having regressed in this moment with her anger issues and I love her but it’s right that she does and I hope she remembers how bad this feels next time and is able to remind herself it’s just never going to be worth it. I personally don’t think Augustus expected things to pop off quite this violently and explosively but I certainly also don’t think he’s sorry to see it. I think he’s got so many issues of his own to work through and thinks this is just what it takes to ‘protect’ someone by ‘showing’ them who someone else is mask off and hoping that can save them from caring about them or not wanting to hurt them and that this will help. I honestly think he just doesn’t get that this isn’t the way for Lucy to find her peace and that what Lucy was trying to do in moving on and accepting having to see each other but not interact for now while they’re both still working on themselves was what she chose for herself for a reason.

Mike: Three years, forty-eight days.

Lucy: ……

Will Mike receive the consequences to his actions?! Will he have to face up to being a ninny? Will Lucy move the plot further along? Will Mike and Lucy be on speaking terms by the time they have to fight Alejandro and Toby again? Find out next time on Bitter Sweet Candy Bowl. (cue outro music)

Lucy’s words that he never wanted her must have hurt more than getting kneed in the balls.

one thing about me I will always be a #proud Lucy apologist, you go girl

The instant regret on her face when she realized she hit him again, which was one of his complaints back when he was telling her she was awful

Okay, time to call a shot. Not that I think this is going to be a difficult shot, as I feel like the conversation is bringing up a topic already addressed in BCI, but I want to type all this out nonetheless.

We already know the answer to Lucy’s question. The letters started as soon as Sandy left, after 3rd grade, and while they slowed down over time, they never stopped until the start of freshman year, once Mike was able to contact Sandy via phone and they switched to that instead. And therein lies why both Mike and Lucy have been unable to accept each other’s feelings as genuine.

This did not start with Mike rebounding on Lucy and breaking her heart the next day.

This did not start with Mike misinterpreting Sandy wanting Lucy to be less violent as permission to destroy her social life.

This did not start with Lucy turning to abuse to mask her feelings.

This did not start with Lucy being too afraid to take the next step with her best friend.

This started when a little girl with socialisation problems had her first and only friend abandon her for a year.

And sure, he apologised. And sure, she forgave him. But Mike now has first hand experience that claiming forgiveness is not the same as actual forgiveness. From that point on, there has been a level of distrust that neither of them has attempted to address, so it kept growing.

Mike was never able to convince Lucy that she wasn’t just a backup plan if Sandy fell through, and her distrust of him grew, and she became more abusive. Lucy was never able to convince Mike that she wanted him as more than a sparring partner, and his distrust of her grew, and his desire to destroy her grew. And neither of them ever stopped to talk about it, instead letting their own behaviour grow more and more toxic until it nearly splattered all over a highway exit.

And the sad thing? I think Mike’s confession back in 7th grade was 100% genuine and not an attempt to string Lucy along as a backup whenever things with Sandy went wrong. Mike is, bluntly, oblivious to love. He was the second last person in the school to figure out Paulo and Daisy’s crushes on each other. He thought his dates with Daisy and James were both platonic until both of them were trying to get into his mouth. And he failed to pick up on the fact that, even as he thought they were drifting apart, Sandy still considered him her boyfriend. He thought she was lost years beforehand, and that was fate, so Lucy was, as far as he knew, the most important person in his life. Unfortunately for him Lucy’s more aware of these things, and was able to catch on that Sandy was still a thing.

They need a long, frank, and probably brutal talk with each other. About who they are, what they mean to each other, why they have both been perpetuating a cycle of hurting for half of their lives. And that’s probably not happening today, they’ve both already screwed up too much.

I hope she goes off on Augustus too for everything since he’s the one being a little bitch here. Lucy ignored Mike being around and told him she didn’t care, whereas the massive ego and tiny dick on Augustus made him keep pushing and he needs to be put in his fucking place since this isn’t his fight technically.

god mike annoys me

I like how she sees the pain in Mike’s face after the kick and shows regret. Given how her abuse of him was mainly physical.

It would have been easy (even understandable) if she was too mad to care at that moment, after everything she’s been through and after the display Mike has just made.

I don’t think either of them likes hurting the other, just a lot of unresolved issues piling up on both sides until they spill out in an ugly way.

Two back to back displays of violence, there’s some nice symmetry here.

Boy this is going fantastic!