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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
The chapter opens on the walk to school, where [[Daisy]] is giddy about turning sixteen on Saturday.<ref name=":c95p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p1}}</ref> Her party planning hits a snag almost immediately. In the hallway, [[Paulo]] leaps away mid-invitation to go flirt with [[Courtney]] at the lockers, leaving Daisy stunned.<ref name=":c95p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p2}}</ref> [[Madison]] corners him afterward with a flat "Fucking pathetic." and tells him to quit stringing [[Rachel]] along.<ref name=":c95p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p3}}</ref> Paulo insists Rachel isn't his girlfriend, but the lecture leaves him deflated all the same.<ref name=":c95p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p4}}</ref>
On the walk to school, [[Daisy]] gushes that she's turning sixteen on Saturday.<ref name=":c95p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p1}}</ref> Her attempt to invite [[Paulo]] goes nowhere, as he leaps away mid-sentence to flirt with [[Courtney]] at the lockers.<ref name=":c95p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p2}}</ref>


[[Lucy]], as the school is about to find out, is back. On the way to class, Daisy confides that she's sure Paulo hates her now, and [[Mike]] offers to talk to him.<ref name=":c95p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p5}}</ref> He never gets the chance: Mike steps through the classroom door and freezes, face to face with Lucy in a private-school uniform.<ref name=":c95p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p6}}</ref>
The real shock waits in the classroom, where [[Mike]] freezes face to face with [[Lucy]] in a private-school uniform.<ref name=":c95p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p6}}</ref> The rest of the class mobs her joyfully, and a comment from Paulo about her chest earns him a kick into the ceiling.<ref name=":c95p7">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p7}}</ref> When the bell rings, Mike reaches out to her in the crowd, loses his nerve, and says nothing.<ref name=":c95p11">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p11}}</ref>


[[File:c95_p6_panel3.png|alt=Mike stands frozen in the classroom doorway, face to face with Lucy, who wears a private-school uniform.|thumb|Lucy's first day back, and Mike is the welcoming committee.]]
[[File:c95_p6_panel3.png|alt=Mike stands frozen in the classroom doorway, face to face with Lucy, who wears a private-school uniform.|thumb|Lucy's first day back, and Mike is the welcoming committee.]]
The rest of the class is overjoyed. [[David]] lifts Lucy into a tearful hug, and Paulo pounces on her next, where a comment about her chest earns him a kick into the ceiling.<ref name=":c95p7">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p7}}</ref><ref name=":c95p9">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p9}}</ref> Mike hangs back through the whole reunion. When the bell rings, he reaches out to her in the crowd, loses his nerve, and says nothing.<ref name=":c95p11">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p11}}</ref>
At lunch, Lucy would rather take a walk alone than sit with the group.<ref name=":c95p12">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p12}}</ref> Back at the table, a wounded Paulo yanks Mike around by his scarf and blames him for Lucy keeping her distance.<ref name=":c95p14">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p14}}</ref> When [[Abbey]] demands he apologize for screaming Daisy down, Paulo retaliates by revealing that Abbey choked him at the con.<ref name=":c95p15">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p15}}</ref> Daisy, horrified, asks how badly Abbey hurt Paulo, and Abbey decides she is taking Paulo's side yet again.<ref name=":c95p16">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p16}}</ref> He ends the relationship in front of the entire cafeteria: "You can '''HAVE''' him, then!! ... We're '''DONE!!'''"<ref name=":c95p17">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p17}}</ref>


Lunch goes about as badly as a lunch can go. Lucy would rather take a walk alone than sit with the group.<ref name=":c95p12">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p12}}</ref> Back at the table, a wounded Paulo yanks Mike around by his scarf and blames him for Lucy keeping her distance.<ref name=":c95p14">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p14}}</ref> When Daisy objects, he screams her down too.<ref name=":c95p15">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p15}}</ref> [[Abbey]] demands an apology, and Paulo's retort of "Gonna teach me another lesson?!" spills the secret: Abbey choked Paulo at the con.<ref name=":c95p15" /><ref name=":c95p16">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p16}}</ref>
Lucy's walk leads her straight to [[Augustus]], lying in the grass by the track.<ref name=":c95p20">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p20}}</ref> She bursts into tears and leaps into his arms, then slaps him, furious that the absentee policy has held him back a year.<ref name=":c95p22">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p22}}</ref> [[Toby]] is pressuring him to drop out, but Lucy won't hear of it, vowing "This year, I'm gonna fight for you!"<ref name=":c95p23">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p23}}</ref>
 
Daisy is horrified, but her worry lands in the wrong place. She asks how badly Abbey hurt Paulo, and Abbey decides she is taking Paulo's side yet again.<ref name=":c95p16" /> He ends the relationship in front of the entire cafeteria: "You can '''HAVE''' him, then!! ... We're '''DONE!!'''"<ref name=":c95p17">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p17}}</ref> He barely makes it across the room before [[Jasmine]] waves him over to sit with her friends.<ref name=":c95p18">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p18}}</ref>
 
Lucy's walk, meanwhile, leads her straight to [[Augustus]], lying in the grass by the track.<ref name=":c95p20">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p20}}</ref> She bursts into tears and leaps into his arms. Then she slaps him, furious to find him still at Roseville at all — the absentee policy has held him back a year.<ref name=":c95p22">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p22}}</ref> [[Toby]] is pressuring him to drop out, but Lucy won't hear of it, vowing "This year, I'm gonna fight for you!"<ref name=":c95p23">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p23}}</ref>


After school, Lucy brings Augustus home, where her family reacts with alarm.<ref name=":c95p29">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p29}}</ref> She settles the room with a single sentence. "He's the boy who saved my life."<ref name=":c95p30">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p30}}</ref>
After school, Lucy brings Augustus home, where her family reacts with alarm.<ref name=":c95p29">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p29}}</ref> She settles the room with a single sentence. "He's the boy who saved my life."<ref name=":c95p30">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p30}}</ref>


From there the comic flashes back to the night she disappeared. Alone in a heavy snowstorm after the school play, Lucy spirals into despair, telling herself that "Everything will be better without me."<ref name=":c95p35">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p35}}</ref> She climbs to the roof of an old furniture building and jumps.<ref name=":c95p36">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p36}}</ref>
From there the comic flashes back to the night she disappeared. Alone in a heavy snowstorm after the school play, Lucy spirals into despair, telling herself that "Everything will be better without me."<ref name=":c95p35">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p35}}</ref> She climbs to the roof of an old furniture building and jumps.<ref name=":c95p36">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p36}}</ref> Augustus finds her lying badly hurt in the snow.<ref name=":c95p38">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p38}}</ref> When he flips open his phone, she begs him not to call the man who controls him, and blacks out mid-plea.<ref name=":c95p39">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p39}}</ref> His fading dialogue reveals that he is calling an ambulance.<ref name=":c95p41">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p41}}</ref>
 
Augustus finds her lying badly hurt in the snow.<ref name=":c95p38">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p38}}</ref> When he flips open his phone, she begs him not to call the man who controls him, and blacks out mid-plea.<ref name=":c95p39">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p39}}</ref> His fading dialogue is what gives the truth away. He is asking for an ambulance to "the old furniture place along [[Northern Highway]]."<ref name=":c95p41">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p41}}</ref>


Back in the present, the family more or less adopts him on the spot. Lucy's mother wraps a stunned Augustus in a tearful hug.<ref name=":c95p42">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p42}}</ref> She insists he stay for chicken lasagna, and her dad offers him the guest room until graduation.<ref name=":c95p45">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p45}}</ref> Augustus can barely process any of it. He protests that the offer must be a prank, then accepts.<ref name=":c95p46">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p46}}</ref><ref name=":c95p47">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p47}}</ref> On the stairs, Lucy sets her terms: no more skipped school days, and Daisy stays off-limits.<ref name=":c95p48">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p48}}</ref> Alone at last, Augustus flops onto his plush new bed and smiles.<ref name=":c95p49">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p49}}</ref> The peace lasts until [[Jordan]] appears with "knock knock it's knuckles" and begs his sister's savior for SAT tutoring.<ref name=":c95p50">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p50}}</ref>
Back in the present, Lucy's mother wraps a stunned Augustus in a tearful hug.<ref name=":c95p42">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p42}}</ref> Her dad offers him the guest room until graduation.<ref name=":c95p45">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p45}}</ref> Augustus protests that the offer must be a prank, then accepts.<ref name=":c95p46">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p46}}</ref> On the stairs, Lucy sets her terms — no more skipped school days, and Daisy stays off-limits.<ref name=":c95p48">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p48}}</ref> Alone at last, Augustus flops onto his plush new bed and smiles.<ref name=":c95p49">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p49}}</ref>


== Critical moments ==
== Critical moments ==
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* Lucy introduces Augustus to her family as "the boy who saved my life," and the chapter drops into a flashback of the night she disappeared.<ref name=":c95p30" />
* Lucy introduces Augustus to her family as "the boy who saved my life," and the chapter drops into a flashback of the night she disappeared.<ref name=":c95p30" />
* In the flashback, Lucy jumps from the roof of an abandoned building in a snowstorm. Augustus finds her, and the phone call she takes for a betrayal turns out to be him calling an ambulance.<ref name=":c95p36" /><ref name=":c95p41" />
* In the flashback, Lucy jumps from the roof of an abandoned building in a snowstorm. Augustus finds her, and the phone call she takes for a betrayal turns out to be him calling an ambulance.<ref name=":c95p36" /><ref name=":c95p41" />
* Lucy's dad offers Augustus the guest room until graduation. Augustus insists the offer must be a prank, then accepts.<ref name=":c95p45" /><ref name=":c95p46" /><ref name=":c95p47" />
* Lucy's dad offers Augustus the guest room until graduation. Augustus insists the offer must be a prank, then accepts.<ref name=":c95p45" /><ref name=":c95p46" /><ref name=":c95p47">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p47}}</ref>


== Character dynamics ==
== Character dynamics ==
[[File:c95_p49_panel6.png|alt=Augustus lies sprawled on his new bed, smiling blissfully at the ceiling.|thumb|Chicken lasagna, clean laundry, and a bed of his own: Augustus is doing alright.]]
[[File:c95_p49_panel6.png|alt=Augustus lies sprawled on his new bed, smiling blissfully at the ceiling.|thumb|Chicken lasagna, clean laundry, and a bed of his own: Augustus is doing alright.]]
* '''Abbey and Daisy:''' The two of them walked into this chapter as a couple on shaky ground. Their fight over Paulo in [[Golden Hour]] never really healed.<ref name=":c90p20">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c90/p20}}</ref> Once the con secret is out, Daisy's sympathy goes straight to Paulo, and Abbey reads that as betrayal.<ref name=":c95p16" /> He dumps her publicly, and by the end of the period he is sitting at Jasmine's table instead.<ref name=":c95p17" /><ref name=":c95p18" />
* '''Abbey and Daisy:''' The two of them walked into this chapter as a couple on shaky ground. Their fight over Paulo in [[Golden Hour]] never really healed.<ref name=":c90p20">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c90/p20}}</ref> Once the con secret is out, Daisy's sympathy goes straight to Paulo, and Abbey reads that as betrayal.<ref name=":c95p16" /> He dumps her publicly, and by the end of the period he is sitting at Jasmine's table instead.<ref name=":c95p17" /><ref name=":c95p18">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p18}}</ref>
* '''Lucy and Augustus:''' Their friendship had been a secret from everyone in Lucy's life, and this chapter is where it stops being one. At the track, she learns he is stuck and being pushed to drop out, and he learns she means to fight for him.<ref name=":c95p22" /><ref name=":c95p23" /> By nightfall he is living in her family's guest room, on her conditions: full attendance until graduation, and "Daisy's '''STILL''' off-limits."<ref name=":c95p48" />
* '''Lucy and Augustus:''' Their friendship had been a secret from everyone in Lucy's life, and this chapter is where it stops being one. At the track, she learns he is stuck and being pushed to drop out, and he learns she means to fight for him.<ref name=":c95p22" /><ref name=":c95p23" /> By nightfall he is living in her family's guest room, on her conditions: full attendance until graduation, and "Daisy's '''STILL''' off-limits."<ref name=":c95p48" />
* '''Augustus and Lucy's family:''' They start the afternoon as total strangers — [[Sam]]'s greeting is "Who's the creep."<ref name=":c95p29" /> One sentence from Lucy recasts the stranger as her savior.<ref name=":c95p30" /> By the end of the night her mom has fed him chicken lasagna, her dad has handed him a room, and Jordan wants SAT tutoring out of the deal.<ref name=":c95p45" /><ref name=":c95p50" />
* '''Augustus and Lucy's family:''' Augustus can barely process ordinary kindness, and Lucy's family hands him more of it in one evening than he knows what to do with. They meet him as a total stranger — [[Sam]]'s greeting is "Who's the creep"<ref name=":c95p29" /> — but once Lucy tells them he saved her life, they treat him like one of their own.<ref name=":c95p30" /> By bedtime her dad has given him the guest room until graduation, and Jordan has decided his sister's savior might as well tutor him for the SATs too.<ref name=":c95p45" /><ref name=":c95p50">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p50}}</ref>


== Trivia & observations ==
== Trivia & observations ==
* Per Oliver's commentary, Lucy's return came a little under four years after her departure in real time.<ref name=":c95p7" />
* Per Oliver's commentary, Lucy's return came a little under four years after her departure in real time.<ref name=":c95p7" />
* Lucy punting Paulo into the ceiling repeats her signature move from his very first day of high school.<ref name=":c95p9" /><ref name=":c21p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c21/p3}}</ref>
* Lucy punting Paulo into the ceiling repeats her signature move from his very first day of high school.<ref name=":c95p9">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p9}}</ref><ref name=":c21p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c21/p3}}</ref>
* Lucy's dad makes his first in-person appearance here. Up to now he had only been seen on TV, winning a race qualifier in [[Dinner Time]].<ref name=":c95p29" /><ref name=":c65p19">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c65/p19}}</ref>
* Lucy's dad makes his first in-person appearance here. Up to now he had only been seen on TV, winning a race qualifier in [[Dinner Time]].<ref name=":c95p29" /><ref name=":c65p19">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c65/p19}}</ref>
* Veronica has said Augustus was deliberately kept in the background before this chapter so that revealing him as Lucy's savior would come as a big surprise.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/806218240887062528|date=2026-01-20}}</ref>
* Veronica deliberately kept Augustus in the background before this chapter so that revealing him as Lucy's savior would come as a big surprise.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/806218240887062528|title=Veronica discusses Augustus and Rachel's off-screen dynamic|date=2026-01-20}}</ref>


== Related chapters ==
== Related chapters ==

Latest revision as of 10:01, 29 July 2026

Love Again
Chapter95 of 127 (list of chapters)
PublishedOctober 26, 2016 (2016-10-26)
Page count50
Major charactersLucy, Augustus, Paulo, Daisy, Abbey, Mike, Madison
Minor charactersSue, David, Amaya, Jasmine, Haley, Mina, Cassidy, Courtney, Jessica, Rachel, Matt, Sam, Jordan
LocationsRoseville High School, Lucy's house, Northern Highway, Abandoned warehouse rooftop, Neighborhood sidewalks and streets
Collected inVolume Six
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Lucy walks back into Roseville High School at last, Abbey and Daisy fall apart in the middle of the cafeteria, and the comic finally shows what happened the night Lucy disappeared. So who is "the boy who saved my life"?

Synopsis

On the walk to school, Daisy gushes that she's turning sixteen on Saturday.[1] Her attempt to invite Paulo goes nowhere, as he leaps away mid-sentence to flirt with Courtney at the lockers.[2]

The real shock waits in the classroom, where Mike freezes face to face with Lucy in a private-school uniform.[3] The rest of the class mobs her joyfully, and a comment from Paulo about her chest earns him a kick into the ceiling.[4] When the bell rings, Mike reaches out to her in the crowd, loses his nerve, and says nothing.[5]

Mike stands frozen in the classroom doorway, face to face with Lucy, who wears a private-school uniform.
Lucy's first day back, and Mike is the welcoming committee.

At lunch, Lucy would rather take a walk alone than sit with the group.[6] Back at the table, a wounded Paulo yanks Mike around by his scarf and blames him for Lucy keeping her distance.[7] When Abbey demands he apologize for screaming Daisy down, Paulo retaliates by revealing that Abbey choked him at the con.[8] Daisy, horrified, asks how badly Abbey hurt Paulo, and Abbey decides she is taking Paulo's side yet again.[9] He ends the relationship in front of the entire cafeteria: "You can HAVE him, then!! ... We're DONE!!"[10]

Lucy's walk leads her straight to Augustus, lying in the grass by the track.[11] She bursts into tears and leaps into his arms, then slaps him, furious that the absentee policy has held him back a year.[12] Toby is pressuring him to drop out, but Lucy won't hear of it, vowing "This year, I'm gonna fight for you!"[13]

After school, Lucy brings Augustus home, where her family reacts with alarm.[14] She settles the room with a single sentence. "He's the boy who saved my life."[15]

From there the comic flashes back to the night she disappeared. Alone in a heavy snowstorm after the school play, Lucy spirals into despair, telling herself that "Everything will be better without me."[16] She climbs to the roof of an old furniture building and jumps.[17] Augustus finds her lying badly hurt in the snow.[18] When he flips open his phone, she begs him not to call the man who controls him, and blacks out mid-plea.[19] His fading dialogue reveals that he is calling an ambulance.[20]

Back in the present, Lucy's mother wraps a stunned Augustus in a tearful hug.[21] Her dad offers him the guest room until graduation.[22] Augustus protests that the offer must be a prank, then accepts.[23] On the stairs, Lucy sets her terms — no more skipped school days, and Daisy stays off-limits.[24] Alone at last, Augustus flops onto his plush new bed and smiles.[25]

Critical moments

  • Mike walks into the classroom and comes face to face with Lucy, back at school after her long absence.[3]
  • Pressed by Abbey to apologize to Daisy at lunch, Paulo fires back "Gonna teach me another lesson?!" and reveals that Abbey choked him at a convention.[8][9]
  • Daisy condemns the assault, and Abbey dumps her in front of the whole cafeteria with a shouted "We're DONE!!"[10]
  • Lucy introduces Augustus to her family as "the boy who saved my life," and the chapter drops into a flashback of the night she disappeared.[15]
  • In the flashback, Lucy jumps from the roof of an abandoned building in a snowstorm. Augustus finds her, and the phone call she takes for a betrayal turns out to be him calling an ambulance.[17][20]
  • Lucy's dad offers Augustus the guest room until graduation. Augustus insists the offer must be a prank, then accepts.[22][23][26]

Character dynamics

Augustus lies sprawled on his new bed, smiling blissfully at the ceiling.
Chicken lasagna, clean laundry, and a bed of his own: Augustus is doing alright.
  • Abbey and Daisy: The two of them walked into this chapter as a couple on shaky ground. Their fight over Paulo in Golden Hour never really healed.[27] Once the con secret is out, Daisy's sympathy goes straight to Paulo, and Abbey reads that as betrayal.[9] He dumps her publicly, and by the end of the period he is sitting at Jasmine's table instead.[10][28]
  • Lucy and Augustus: Their friendship had been a secret from everyone in Lucy's life, and this chapter is where it stops being one. At the track, she learns he is stuck and being pushed to drop out, and he learns she means to fight for him.[12][13] By nightfall he is living in her family's guest room, on her conditions: full attendance until graduation, and "Daisy's STILL off-limits."[24]
  • Augustus and Lucy's family: Augustus can barely process ordinary kindness, and Lucy's family hands him more of it in one evening than he knows what to do with. They meet him as a total stranger — Sam's greeting is "Who's the creep"[14] — but once Lucy tells them he saved her life, they treat him like one of their own.[15] By bedtime her dad has given him the guest room until graduation, and Jordan has decided his sister's savior might as well tutor him for the SATs too.[22][29]

Trivia & observations

  • Per Oliver's commentary, Lucy's return came a little under four years after her departure in real time.[4]
  • Lucy punting Paulo into the ceiling repeats her signature move from his very first day of high school.[30][31]
  • Lucy's dad makes his first in-person appearance here. Up to now he had only been seen on TV, winning a race qualifier in Dinner Time.[14][32]
  • Veronica deliberately kept Augustus in the background before this chapter so that revealing him as Lucy's savior would come as a big surprise.[33]

Related chapters

  • Ten Seconds to Midnight: On New Year's Eve, Augustus pulled Lucy back from a rooftop ledge. This chapter's flashback is the night that scene was building toward, and this time he saves her life for real.
  • Breaking Up: The aftermath of the flashback from everyone else's side. Lucy's room turns up empty, the story moves to the hospital, and Mike is told she isn't coming back.
  • December: Mike's "I hate you" confrontation is the wound behind Lucy's flashback self-talk, which echoes his words almost exactly.
  • Guest of Honor: The chapter where Abbey cornered Paulo in a convention restroom. That assault is the secret Paulo makes public at lunch here.
  • Golden Hour: The source of the phone call Daisy regrets, and of Madison's grudge against Paulo.
  • Trapped: Augustus's backstory in full. It covers Alejandro, Toby's blackmail, and the "circumstances" Lucy passes on to her parents.

References

  1. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 1
  2. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 6
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 7
  5. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 11
  6. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 12
  7. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 14
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 15
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 16
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 17
  11. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 20
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 22
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 23
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 29
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 30
  16. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 35
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 36
  18. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 38
  19. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 39
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 41
  21. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 42
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 45
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 46
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 48
  25. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 49
  26. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 47
  27. ↑ Chapter 90: Golden Hour, page 20
  28. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 18
  29. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 50
  30. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 9
  31. ↑ Chapter 21: Enter High School, page 3
  32. ↑ Chapter 65: Dinner Time, page 19
  33. ↑ "Veronica discusses Augustus and Rachel's off-screen dynamic". 2026-01-20.
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