Bittersweet Candy Bowl

It’s finally all out

FINALLY

What does it mean

I think Vero usually changes the lineart to reference a specific scene or chapter but I can’t tell which one this is supposed to be. Page 11 of a distance apart maybe? Or just a reference to earlier chapters all together

The latter is how I took it; a kind of visual representation of just how long all of this has been going on.

Maybe Mike would’ve gotten obsessed with Lucy and they could just be like a toxic ouroboros together instead

Some problems were definitely Sandy. However Lucy and Mike’s friendship has always been co-dependent in a non-healthy way.

Mike would still likely have issues with anger management and otherwise bottling up his emotions in an unhealthy way. But odds of Mike and Lucy staying closer is high. Sandy was the one that drove them apart at the very start. That said, it’s uncertain if they’d ever really get together. Lucy was a lot more closed off with her feelings towards mike at the start. Though I do wonder if that was a defense mechanisms developed in part due to Mike basically ditching her as soon as Sandy came into the picture. It’s a really interesting thought experiment to be sure.

One thing I am glad about in this timeline, however? Lucy hitting her low point allowed her to get closer with Augustus, which in turn helped him find a way out of the life he was living up to that point. If Mike and Lucy never had Sandy come between them, Augustus would still be miserable as a part of Alejandro’s group.

I think Sandy actually served to make the issues between Mike and Lucy clearer. Personally I think that even if Sandy wasn’t around Mike and Lucy would still have their falling out considering how toxic and co-dependent their friendship was. Honestly I think the blow up then would’ve been just as bad but for separate reasons

right?? Here’s hoping!!!!

Hopefully some real healing, atonement, and accountability this time.

Cause it’s clear it’s all boiling over at this point with no real resolution or a true confrontation, hell not even the parents done jack shit or are even aware at all

Actually…are Mike and Lucy parents even aware at all what’s been happening all this time, or at all?

I think Lucy’s parents might have somewhat of an idea? (Or at least, her mom seems to have made some assumptions on things) But I don’t think they know the fine details of it all.

I feel like the final tipping point overall is all parents are going to find out and get involved.

And how much a falling out it’s going to cause for everyone, and I mean EVERYONE

Yeah she’s not clear on that one

Yeah, I’m trying to remember which time too, because their last interaction I believe it was proven that she went for the kiss. But I might be wrong

Honestly I think that actually adds to her point that HE strung HER along not vice versa

I think she’s referring to what happened in Pillow Talk, page 48. She’s remembering it from awhile ago. I could also be wrong

There is no “proof” in eternal flame only context clues and if you ask me lucy was not the one to initiate that.

Doubt it, it was stated Lucy pulled the kiss. Yeah Mike said that corny lovey stuff but she was the one that initiated the kiss. Someone pointed out a good point where she might be referring to back to “pillow talk” where all the girls had a sleepover and Lucy went on about something in the past and Mike did kiss her where he tried to confess to her and she kinda rejected him there.

I reread Eternal Flame and it looks more like Mike is initiating the kiss and Lucy is getting swept up in everything after he apologized and told her he never hated her. But if the author has said otherwise than ok

Tbf even if she is referring to the kiss in Eternal Flame, Mike did kiss her back, she could be talking about that aspect of it (Though personally I feel like she’s referring to the one in Pillow Talk)

Lucy might have been the one that leaned into it, but Mike was the one that pretty much goaded her into doing it when she was more than ready to leave and just walk away as potential friends again in Eternal Flame. He knows that Lucy still has those kinds of feelings for him, and it was kind of manipulative in hindsight. Especially since it could have been coming from a place of malice over the fact that Sandy herself was cheating.

I know Vero said she kissed him, but I always wonder how much we can trust what Vero says. She does like to bamboozle us readers, (and we like the wild ride)

I feel like the consequences Is going to even out for everyone if I’m being honest

Like I don’t think August is going to just walk away Scott free without something flying back at him

This idea also comes from the fact that when they had their mini break up, Sandy literally said whatever she could to manipulate him back and is now just using him as a vent.