Bittersweet Candy Bowl

131. Accountability Buddy, page posted 10/21/26

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Veronica: i’m cringing really hard over here

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Comment ID #247820

Yes! Zero room for misunderstanding! My favorite!

Lil_Brimstone

Comment ID #247821

Oh geez she ain’t holding back

Joselyn Rivera

Comment ID #247822

FINALLY she starts talking about the ROOT of it all

transopossum17

Comment ID #247823

the crucible of their connection!

Avian

Comment ID #247824

Now we’re getting to it.

PAM

Comment ID #247825

you did nothing, except literally get thrown into the garbage

SomeColourMage

Comment ID #247826

‘It was a miracle Mike got up’ “Lucy, if it was a miracle ONE of us got up-”

Avian

Comment ID #247827

based on the main difference between Mike and the rest of the group during that fight, clearly more of them should have got drunk beforehand. skill issue tbh

SomeColourMage

Comment ID #247828

;____; oh Lucy…

Zambies

Comment ID #247829

Good job Luce ♥️

Come on Sue, don’t minimize this. She’s finally opening up to you. Be more thoughtful with what you say next..

DreamerKay

Comment ID #247830

I mean Paulo tried but yeah Mike did lock in

arjay

Comment ID #247831

All that martial arts practice mixed with liquid courage really did wonders in the moment.

Alec

Comment ID #247832

It would seem Lucy didn’t learn a damn thing about the bacteria that crawls on our skin…

Metal Raven

Comment ID #247833

Damn Sue did kinda forget

Fiver

Comment ID #247834

People deal with trauma very differentally yall, Sue probably coped by leaving it all behind or talking about it in the moment when it really fucked her up in a healthy manner. I dont think shes minimizing /at all/ shes just genuinely surprised about this being the root of everything thats made lucy upset for months now in their timeline.

Arctic

Comment ID #247835

Ok wait im confused. What is this about a museum? I think im missing context, can someone fill me in?

Firelilly027

Comment ID #247836

Head back and reread chapter 14: Confrontation

Mandy Seley

Comment ID #247837

Thank you! 😊

Firelilly027

Comment ID #247838

Hey Lucy can we have a normal conversation where you express your feelings clearly and then hear Sue out and try to understand her perspective about what happened as she would to you or is this too hard for you

Maya

Comment ID #247839

I’m glad that Lucy is FINALLY talking about this for once even if not the MOST favorable situation!! But it’s something!!! Please let it all out Lucy!! Go girl! If there’s one of your friends who will actually take anything from this outburst, it would be Sue!

esinololly

Comment ID #247840

Yesssss delicious, just what I wanted >8) Now I’m dying to know what may have happened at Lucy’s other school to see if any of the feelings from that are getting twisted up in this

Antares

Comment ID #247841

I want to reread this part of the story. Does someone know which chapter this was?

Kauphy

Comment ID #247842

Chapter 14: confrontation

Surprisingly early in the story

Kiall Vun Myeret

Comment ID #247843

Confrontation

Blaster824

Comment ID #247844

Ah so complete misremembering and misplaced blame. I feel like it’s super late in the story for this to be the root of her trauma. I had to reread several chapters just to confirm what happened, and this is pretty unfair of her. Things won’t be fixed after just this conversation but at least the course can be corrected.

Xiro

Comment ID #247845

How is she misremembering…? They all sat there and watched while it happened.

Kauphy

Comment ID #247846

After rereading confrontation there is a small detail that Lucy says she couldn’t hear a thing (her being deaf in one ear) so that explains even more why she felt so isolated from the rest. She couldn’t see them, she couldn’t hear them. At that moment it really was for her that they weren’t there

Kiall Vun Myeret

Comment ID #247847

This is super gnarly and upsetting but probably the best way things could be falling apart right now. I’m not even optimistic that this right now can be a productive conversation, Lucy is so triggered and lost in memories right now and her head is a mess. I don’t think she’s capable of calming herself down and really talking right now, she’s just kept all this inside too long and it’s too painful. But maybe now that the truth is finally out in the open, it won’t be impossible for a better calmer talk to come of this in the future. It’s not pretty or fair but it’s honestly extremely common to struggle with feelings of irrational anger, paranoia, and betrayal as a part of PTSD like this, especially when young. The weight of ‘why did this happen’ becomes too much to bear and shifts into ‘who let this happen’. Whether it’s friends, parents, god, the world, yourself, or all of the above. You try to rationalize, you try to find someone to blame so that you can feel like no longer putting your trust in them makes you safer and you can tell yourself that’s how it’ll never ever happen again.

mobsterseeker

Comment ID #247848

So that’s why they took the train, and ended up in the bad part of town.

SCD

Comment ID #247849

What is this then

Jonah Sanville (firelight_waltz)

Comment ID #247850

What is this then part 2