Bittersweet Candy Bowl

97. After You, page posted 7/10/17

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Author commentary

Veronica: I guess Lucy experienced heartbreak before so she’s totally cool letting Paulo know that it Gets Better ™

.. but I dunno, you kinda dealt with rejection in the worst ways possible so perhaps you should let paulo pout and get upset too

Comments from around the web

Oh thank god, the whole surge of emotion on the previous page was just that: a surge. The whole plush-tearing thing wasn’t Paulo ending his friendship with Lucy but just taking out his frustration on the plush… that he won by taking out his frustration on the test-your-strength competition. Given the way this page is treating the situation with relative light-heartedness, it seems that the two are going to be friends and Paulo is mature enough to understand that Lucy was just screaming to get her point across rather than to be a jerk.

Facebook: Neil Chatterjee July 10, 2017

….see, now THIS is the first page that makes me believe that this is more than Lucy just pushing Paulo away despite wanting to be with him because Drama and OH GAWD MIKE. She knows him—which means she knows his tendency to jump from one girl to another, to not be reliable, to end up hurting her because of his flightiness and inability to decide what(or, let’s be frank, who) really matters to him. I still think she likes him, but those traits are disaster in the making for a relationship, especially when she’s still rather…fragile. And I think she knows it! She may not know about Rachel….yet…but between “I know you”, “You’ll feel better by Monday”, and how quickly her face settled out of Angst Mode, it’s a subtle sort of call-out that’s really got to sting.

Facebook: Jan Gundle July 10, 2017

Lucy is kinda being annoying now. How can you say to someone you know cares so much about you that you are basically done being friends at all. Then saying “We had a good night though” also had to wait and tell him in a place where you are stuck together for awhile.

Facebook: Kirk Findlay July 10, 2017

oh thank god paulo’s pouting
he’s gonna be okay yall

Tumblr: sephiriaarks July 10, 2017

DID HE DESTROY HIS PLUSH AND THEN STEAL HERS

Twitter: PickYerPoison July 10, 2017