Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Didn’t Paulo get his ass beat?

The idea of the others just not even remembering didt even cross my mind

That’s the funny thing about traumatic experiences, it affects people differently. Poor Lucy got the worst of it while Sue seems to barely remember. Yowch.

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting years for Lucy to tell them how she felt about what Michael put her through. She’s got a point, NONE of them checked in, or bothered to stop Michael from treating her horribly.

Oh OH I get it now LOL

I honestly don’t remember who stopped them from hurting Lucy more. Wasn’t Mike AND Paulo beat up?

Sue: “Damn…what did Mike do this time?”

I wouldn’t put it past Sue to forget as that was 4 years ago, but at the same time, this is probably one of the worst responses to give to Lucy in such a vulnerable state, especially since she has been feeling resentment all this time for them ever since.

I’m hoping Lucy opens up more to Sue and explains herself so she can have a better understanding of her inner turmoil, but the other half of me expects Lucy to shut herself off again and assume Sue doesn’t care.

Please let these two come to an understanding and become accountability buddiesssssss

Lucy’s victim mentality is really taking hold here. She completely forgets that EVERYONE was a victim in that situation, she wasn’t alone in the trauma. Hopefully Sue acts rationally to steer this conversation in a healthier way.

…OOOHHHH!!

Either Sue genuinely doesn’t know what she’s talking about (the more likely alternative), or Sue also got PTSD from the incident and she’s actively repressed the memory to keep herself from spiralling. The latter would make for a really interesting plot development, even if it’s a really depressing one.

yikes!

Ooof, when you pretend to be fine in the aftermath so hard that you managed to convince everyone it wasn’t that bad, but then you realize it affected you WAY more than you thought, and now everyone is confused and hurt by your anger, because they genuinely thought it never affected you at all 😭😭😭

God, these kids are a mess; this is such beautiful writing

I’m confused did Mike help Lucy in that moment or??

Girl what you on about?

She meant Mike or Alej?

I don’t think that Sue forgot or has some kind of repressed memories from the incident.

It’s more likely that Sue doesn’t know what Lucy is talking about because she’s trying to think of a time she’s ever left her friend alone in a dangerous situation. Which she hasn’t.

The trauma is likely making Lucy remember what happened that day differently. Yet, Sue definitely attempted to stand up to Alejandro and his gang and got seriously hurt as a result. She didn’t just stand by and let anything happen, like Lucy’s trying to claim during an emotional outburst that’s the result of bottling that kind of trauma up for so long.

We can understand why Lucy feels resentment towards everyone who was there. That still doesn’t mean her trauma gets to supersede everyone else’s. Lucy’s friends can choose to understand where she’s coming from, because that incident traumatized all of them in one way or another. However, they have no obligation to accept repeated mistreatment from Lucy, regardless of whatever memory distortion she may be experiencing as a result.

Lucy being selfish and unfair as usual.. literally paulo and sue both tried to help and got hit, daisy froze which is a normal ass trauma response? Realistically what did you want them to do?

Just came back from rereading confrontation. I can sort of understand where Lucy is getting her logic from. Yes everyone minus daisy was injured. But ultimately, despite getting pummeled, Mike saved her and they BOTH jumped Alejandro and they got the worst of the beating and…more. In her eyes, the rest of them did just watch. Paulo ,however, was unconscious. Sue and Daisy were terrified. Daisy is not a fighter in the least. They were all out of sorts. Up until the fight, she had just heard Paulo sexualize her and Daisy insulted her. During the fight Lucy temporarily was dazed. During that gap where she was in over her head she forgot that they were injured too and rationalized that them not coming to her aide was out of spite. She is remembering the events out of order and that the rest of them simply moved on, tucking it away as a bad day they don’t talk about.

So not only is she blaming her friends for having the very natural freeze response to a dangerous situation when they were like 12

The one person that actually did come to her aid she has hurt more then any of the others and only could bring herself to say sorry after driving him to anorexia

She pushed every single one of the people that wanted to help her away and on top of everything she made the active choice to go stalk a person who was associated with the source of her trauma who, while ending up as a good friend, is still a constant reminder of it

I know we can’t really blame this response, this is the trauma speaking.

But it all boils down to Lucy not choosing to have experienced the traumatic event but she is choosing to suffer from it

She and everyone around her

She wants to be a victim

THEY BROKE HER NOSE