Good Egg

Good Egg
(Book-exclusive)
Published	September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01)
Page count	6
Major characters	Abbey, Jasmine, Mina, Molly, Lucy
Minor characters	Cassidy, Carol
Locations	Lucy’s house, Roseville neighborhood, Roseville High School
Collected in	Volume Seven
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Good Egg is a book-exclusive chapter appearing in Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Seven. Halloween with Jasmine’s friend circle takes a turn when Mina announces she brought eggs. Abbey only came out to trick-or-treat with his little sister, and he winds up fleeing a crime scene, enjoying it rather more than he’d like to admit.

Synopsis

On Halloween night, Jasmine’s friend circle is out trick-or-treating, with Abbey’s little sister Molly along, dressed head to toe as Bob the Builder. Mina sees no shame in collecting candy at her age, since it’s really just “wealth redistribution”.

Abbey hangs back from the doors himself. He’s not much of a sweet tooth, he says, and trick-or-treating with Molly makes him feel like the adult who has to stand in the background. Jasmine reminds him that a junior is still a kid, and Cassidy proposes the group help him lighten up a little. Mina announces that she brought eggs and wants to egg a house.

Abbey objects that lightening up shouldn’t require vandalism, but Mina has a bone to pick with her chosen house, which “ran out” of chocolate bars on her turn last Halloween. She is already winding up while Abbey tries to say something about whose house it is. Carol answers the door, delighted to see children, and takes the egg square in the face. Mina yells “SPLIT UP, GANG!” and everyone scatters.

A safe distance away, Molly, Abbey and Jasmine collapse on the pavement to catch their breath. Nervous glances soon give way to helpless laughter, and Abbey surprises himself with a “That was fun!” It falls to Molly, of all people, to ask whether they have to apologize to the lady. Abbey agrees without a moment’s hesitation.

Back at school the following week, Abbey and Jasmine are trading jokes about the whole thing when Lucy appears behind them, and she knows exactly whose friends egged her mom on Halloween. After a long, terrifying glare, she gives the two of them a thumbs up. “Pretty funny. Keep up the good work.”

Character dynamics

Carol answers the door at exactly the wrong moment.

• Abbey and Jasmine: Easy friends ever since Jasmine welcomed him into her circle, though they disagree on one point: she says he’s still a kid, and he maintains that being a junior makes a difference. Once they’re safely away, Abbey and Jasmine laugh themselves breathless on the pavement and come away noticeably closer. A week later they’re relaxed enough to turn the whole thing into in-jokes, with Jasmine ribbing him that someone’s got to be the adult around here.
• Abbey and Mina: Mina runs on impulse, while Abbey sticks to the rules, so Cassidy decides he needs help lightening up. He disapproves of the egg plan right up until the adrenaline hits, and even after admitting he had fun, he’s the one who insists they go back and apologize.

Trivia & observations

• The whole group came in costume. Molly is Bob the Builder, complete with hard hat, tool belt, and catchphrase, while Mina went as Hannah Montana in a blond wig. Cassidy is Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Abbey is an English bobby, and Jasmine is Juno, complete with jacket and baby doll.
• Molly’s costume choice was strategic, by her own admission: “I picked this costume so I could swing a wrench around without getting yelled at.”
• Mina had no idea her target was Lucy’s house. Abbey works it out a moment too late, getting only as far as “Wait, isn’t this L-..” before the egg flies.

Related chapters

• Witch Hunt: The chapter directly before this one covers the main cast’s own Halloween outing, and Carol is there too, cheerfully seeing the trick-or-treaters off at the start of the night. Her doorway duty in Good Egg goes rather less pleasantly.
• Clean Slate: Abbey and Jasmine’s friendship began there, when Jasmine apologized to him for her old pranks during an Environmental Club trash pickup. It’s also where Jasmine says dating Paulo taught her to relax and put herself first, which is exactly the history Cassidy teases her with here.