Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Oh dear. Pointing fingers right now is not the way young Sue. But I’m so proud of you for giving her your perspective. Luce needs a little of that.

Aaaaaannd now we went there.

Suuuuue noooo i was rooting for youuuuu 😭

Set! Her! Straight! This is going to hurt Lucy in the short term, but she has to stop letting her feelings warp her memories of what happened. In the long term, remembering the context of the situation and taking ownership of her part in it will bring her greater healing.

So two ways I see this ending, Sue will give Lucy the greatest reason you suck speech.

Or

Lucy will get fed up and in normal Lucy fashion resort to violence and punch Sue breaking their friendship.

Oh yeah, I was right with my comment in the previous page, this conversation is going to turn NASTY…

Lmao oh shit! Sue uno reversed that on you, Lucy

O.O

oh. oh. oh no.

I mean she’s not wrong but also like…probably not the way to go about it. But I don’t blame her for also lashing out back after lucy basically yelled at her when she’s traumatized about it too.

IIRC, they missed the bus because of Lucy, but Mike had the idea to take the train and they got on the wrong one, which is how they got lost. So not entirely true unless the reason they missed the right bus/train was because they were fighting (which admittedly is very possible)

So reading back what I can grasp is, the gang missed the bus from something Lucy did, and it was Mike’s decision to take a train instead of waiting for the next bus (if there even was one).

There isn’t enough details to rightfully put one person to blame for the entire encounter that it led up to.

I do hope this does open up Lucy’s perspective a bit more of what actually lead up to that moment, rather than her recluse back in her shell to victimize herself.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd here we go.

I like that Sue didn’t just take this on the chin, but I should have known this conversation was about to get a lot messier and more destructive, haha…

Here we see how two teenagers are reacting poorly to a situation that traumatized them both. Lucy’s trauma has festered unaddressed to the point that she’s started blaming and lashing out at the people who were just as helpless as she was. Meanwhile Sue couldn’t even allow herself to think about what happened; for the sake of her own stability, she had to repress it, forget it, and try to move on.

Have any of these teens ever told ANY adult about what happened? I have to imagine no?

Alright gang, I am gonna go get a refill on my popcorn. Anyone want me to bring them back anything? Drinks? Snacks?

I want them to be teens and handle this as teens do. It’s not right that Lucy gets to point fingers, but when Sue does it, it’s suddenly “not the right response,” and everyone’s suddenly on the “don’t pass the blame or point fingers” train? She’s not even saying anything wrong; what Sue said actually happened. Unlike Lucy, who’s remembering it differently. They’re all children and should get to handle it as such. Stop trying to force maturity onto these kids. It’s not right that some have to walk on eggshells while others get a pass to be as volatile as they want. It should’ve never been one-sided in the first place. Let them have this moment.

Uh ohhhhhh. Uh oh!! Uh ohhh!! Uh ohhhhhh!

Wasn’t it Sue who had them jump on the first train? And had them get off at that sketchy stop?

If you reread the chapter the crazy part is Sue did the most to help that night. She got the two to stop fighting and get their heads together to figure a solution, she suggested finding a store to call for help (which was the smart thing back then), and during the fight she tried to negotiate at the start.

Hopefully this doesn’t escalate. As heated as it has gotten, it is good for both of them to get this out of their system. Just saying it, putting a face to it, makes it a much more tangible problem to work on resolving, hopefully as friends.

….oh! Hmmmm, to be fair Sue deserves to let out her grief on the situation too. She was put into a pretty scary place by those two and she’s also the one that got them out of it (by calling her mom)

oh boy

Sue.. you were doing so well😭

Sueeee noooooooooo if you had left it before that last thing Lucy probably would have re-evaluated and you would have had ground to stand on… now you’re turning from “we were just kids” to this!!! No!! It wasn’t Lucy’s fault either — she was also just a dumb kid!!

What are odds that this chapter could be Sue pedastal of Lucy breaking?

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Never fckin mind. We have lost the train yall 😩

a character talking to lucy exactly how she talks to others? consider me sat

Uh oh, I think Lucy might have unintentionally awoken that trauma in Sue.

Yes… it’s about time someone actually slapped Lucy back with words