Bittersweet Candy Bowl

These patterns are patterning.

Let’s see what she does with the info

Aw crap.. well. At the very least I hope Lucy gained a few new perspectives of that horrible day and can stop being passive aggressive towards her friends because of it… But unluckily for Sue now Lucy has a really good reason to be wary of her!!!

she needed to hear that. harsh? yes but necessary. i’m sure they’ll make up and bounce back eventually.

Guys I’m kinda worried what the next page will entail

Either lucy will lose it and spill what happen during the time they didn’t see her

Or Sue, trying to stop Lucy from leaving, grabs her (unintentionally) and it could trigger a PTSD moment with her and without realizing until too late, turns and hits sue hard enough in the face.

Sue, no! Don’t walk it back! Lucy really needed to be humbled a bit. “My trauma this, my trauma that” GIRL, THEY *ALL* GOT TRAUMA AFTER THAT NIGHT!

Sue pleeeease don’t grab Lucy’s shoulder. Don’t grab her anywhere probably right now but especially not the shoulder. It would probably be best to let her go for now and for both of you to cool off before this gets picked up again. Of course, I doubt that, but it’d really be for the best…

Lucy spent the whole time being emotional volatile that she’s shocked someone did it to her?

Lucy:“Sue… you’re so unpleasant now. Sorry but I can’t let you talk to me this way.”

The only way that could have gone bad (worse?) is if they started weighing their trauma against each other. Sue should probably just let her go…

Sorry Lucy, this could have been a productive conversation if you had stopped lashing out for ONE second and tried to empathize. I get it though, because when you’re dealing with trauma your perspective tends to get narrower and narrower… The trauma was so complicated that you try to find stability by reducing everyone around you into “good” or “bad” based on that one moment, forgetting everything else they’ve ever said or done to you. This is such good writing!!

WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO

Nuance in the fact the Sue doesn’t know how much Alejandro hates Lucy specifically

you’re not gonna kill lucyxsue vero i wont let you

this is a hard time for the lucyxsue shippers and the sue apologists AND the lucy apologists (and i am all of them)

Dammit Sue! Don’t walk it back. Why are *YOU* forced to apologize for the things you said, but Lucy is free to treat her friends like trash?

Yesss, even though this sucks, SOMETHING is being addressed

Anyone re-reading the “Confrontation” chapter knows Mike got drunk from eating alcoholic chocolates, but did try to fight back when Sue got hurt (recall that Sue got a broken nose and got tossed against the dumpster) but Mike wasn’t much help and ended up getting knocked out (in the beginning). Paulo at first, tried to stand up for the others more than once but was literally getting barked at enough where he was breaking down and getting wailed on. Lucy then helped out after, and got some good hits in, but it was more of poking the bear than anything, until she started getting assaulted. That moment was a blackout for her with this jerk off pinning her down and hurting her for who knows how long while everyone else was rattled or out cold (refer to pg 20 on the site of that chapter). Mike did help again, once he was physically able to, and Lucy had a moment to recover to save him in the last moment.

Only reason I’m bringing this all up, is that so much did occur during that time and I don’t think it needs to be more apparent that Lucy’s recollection of events due to her own trauma is screwed at best, so she’s not entirely in the right. That said, while I do agree with Sue being direct here to make a point, she didn’t need to tell Lucy that “She wasn’t special”. It sounds silly, but you need to understand It’s not the words, but the context of Sue’s meaning of it, in her frustration. It’s the equivalent of telling a person on their last threads of stability that they don’t matter. Or this case, it’s weighing the differences of their trauma, even though it’s not what Sue really meant. Nothing about Lucy right now is healthy in the slightest, no matter how hard she hides it, so her feeling this trust being betrayed is expected, even despite her trauma blaming Sue.

Sue ain’t some therapist that knows how to handle these situations and this outburst is expected, but that’s why Sue is regretting her last words there. This is a screw up cause she knew she said something she shouldn’t have. What comes next ain’t gonna be better.

God forbid Lucy apologize.