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| major_characters = [[Daisy]], [[Augustus]], [[Tess]], [[Lucy]], [[Paulo]], [[Mike]], [[Yashy]]
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| minor_characters = [[Abbey]], [[David]], [[Alec McCain]], [[Jessica]], [[Rachel]], [[Gym Teacher (High School)]], [[Amaya]]
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| locations = [[Roseville High School]]
| collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume One|Volume One]], [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Omnibus 1|Omnibus 1]]
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Prom talk turns into a food fight, [[Lucy]] launches a cover-up under the lunch table, a charming stranger keeps telling [[Daisy]] exactly what she wants to hear, and [[Tess]]'s hidden past finally corners her in the freshman hallway.
== Synopsis ==
Lunch starts innocently enough, with Lucy asking Tess about junior prom and Tess nervously deflecting. [[Mike]] grumbles that he has nobody to take, and [[Yashy]], who snuck to school in Lucy's bag again, insists his date is sitting right there. Mike gets as far as "SAN--" before Lucy's empty juice box bounces off his head, and [[David]] seizes the chaos to declare a food fight. A newcomer called [[Alec McCain|McCain]] lectures the table on the poor odds of long-distance teenage relationships until Mike tells him to shut it.<ref name=":c32p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p1}}</ref>
Lucy herself has vanished under the table, and a kick from below brings a yowling Mike down to join her. There she pleads with him not to mention [[Sandy]] around Yashy, claiming the little pet is protective of him ("You're like a father to her"). Mike softens and apologizes. The pair are nearly nose to nose when Yashy pops up behind them, wondering if it isn't "a little old-fashioned to indulge yourselves under the dining table?"<ref name=":c32p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p2}}</ref>
[[Daisy]], watching from her seat, murmurs that it's not fair. A voice behind her whispers that Mike isn't the only one out there. It belongs to [[Augustus]], who plays coy with a blushing Daisy while the rest of the table glares. Yashy calls him a creeper outright, and when Tess says she can see through his act, his pointed comeback about "honesty, Tessa" frightens her into silence. [[Paulo]] stands up and tells him to get lost, so Augustus takes his leave, assuring Daisy he only came to see her. Tess warmly thanks Paulo, Paulo flirts back, and Daisy pouts at the pair of them.<ref name=":c32p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p3}}</ref>
It all proves too much for Daisy, who storms outside in tears and sulks alone on a grassy hill. Being sweet, innocent "Little Miss Perfect" is the problem, she decides — she'd get noticed if she were taller, bustier and sexier.<ref name=":c32p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p4}}</ref> [[Abbey]] tries to check on her during gym class at the pool, but Augustus reaches her first and offers to see her after school. Tess demands to know what he wants, gets needled about her "little secret" for her trouble, and Paulo steps in to defend her a second time.<ref name=":c32p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p5}}</ref>
[[File:c32_p6_panel18.png|alt=Augustus takes Daisy's hand and says "Well, Daisy, you made the right decision."|thumb|Daisy takes the nice stranger up on his offer.]]
After the bell, Lucy catches up to Daisy in the hallway with some unusually personal advice. She warns Daisy to "be really careful with who you trust", and not to expect other people to make her feel better about herself. Daisy thanks her sincerely, then privately writes the whole thing off. It must be easy to push people away when you're that pretty, she figures, and she just wants a little bit of that for herself. She meets Augustus after school anyway. He takes her hand and tells her, "Well, Daisy, you made the right decision."<ref name=":c32p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p6}}</ref>
Tess, meanwhile, has an ambush of her own waiting. She and Paulo part ways after school, with Paulo prodding at why she always takes such an odd route out and offering to walk her to her bus stop. She waves him off. Alone in the freshman hallway, she is cornered by two older girls, [[Jessica]] and [[Rachel]], who sneer that it's only fair she takes her turn "feeling hunted and trapped". Tess doesn't argue, and tries to apologize. Rachel slaps her across the face, screaming that her brother still can't play soccer after what she and [[Roger]] did. The pair walk away, leaving Tess crumpled against a locker in tears, hoping Paulo never has to hear about any of it.<ref name=":c32p7">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c32/p7}}</ref>
== Character dynamics ==
* '''Daisy and Augustus:''' The two had met exactly once before, when he flirted with her in [[Carry On]], and Daisy herself notes he's "a complete stranger".<ref name=":c31p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c31/p1}}</ref><ref name=":c32p3" /> His flattery lands squarely on her jealousy and her sense of being invisible, and neither her friends' open distrust nor Lucy's warning slows her down. By the end of the chapter she has met him alone and taken his hand.<ref name=":c32p6" />
* '''Tess, Jessica and Rachel:''' Augustus's needling about "honesty" and Tess's "little secret" pays off in the freshman hallway.<ref name=":c32p5" /> Jessica and Rachel were on the receiving end of whatever Tess and Roger did last year, and her hiding place among the freshmen is now blown.<ref name=":c32p7" /> Tess doesn't defend herself for a moment.
* '''Paulo and Tess:''' Paulo appoints himself Tess's defender, telling Augustus off at lunch and again at the pool, then offering to walk her to her bus stop.<ref name=":c32p3" /><ref name=":c32p7" /> Veronica's commentary confirms he "is getting a lot more protective of Tess" and is "beginning to feel things".<ref name=":c32p5" /> Tess's last words of the chapter are an apology to an absent Paulo, dreading the day he hears what she used to be.
* '''Mike and Lucy:''' Sandy has been Mike's official girlfriend since the phone call in [[A New Leaf]], and ordinary lunch-table conversation besides.<ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c23/p3}}</ref> Mike nearly says her name in front of everyone here.<ref name=":c32p1" /> Lucy's under-the-table plea creates a standing arrangement: Sandy is not to be mentioned around Yashy.<ref name=":c32p2" /> Lucy sells it as protecting Yashy's feelings, and Mike walks away apologetic and complicit.
== Trivia & observations ==
[[File:Tumblr bittersweetcandybowl 167679758207 0.png|thumb|The original lined-paper draft of page 5, shared by the authors in 2017 when a reader asked whether Paulo even knows who Augustus is.<ref name="tumblr2017">{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/167679758207/does-paulo-even-know-who-augustus-is-i-cant|date=2017-11-20}}</ref>]]
* This is the first appearance of Alec McCain, a character created by T. Ashley Jenkins, creator of the puzzle game ''Petal Crash''. Veronica describes him as "David except opposite in personality" and warns readers not to expect him around regularly.<ref name=":c32p1" />
* All seven pages went up over just two days in March 2010, and the chapter is a remake of an older version. Veronica says the original hill scene had Daisy "really mopey and sad", and she rewrote it to show Daisy's "bitter side" instead.<ref name=":c32p4" />
* Veronica's page 2 commentary fills in why Lucy panics. Yashy once heard girlfriend rumors about Mike and Lucy dismissed them, and news of a girlfriend who isn't Lucy would go down "very VERY badly".<ref name=":c32p2" />
* Lucy's hallway advice comes with an official warning label. Oliver's commentary under page 6 tells readers to "take Lucy's words with a grain of salt, here. Nothing's quite so simple."<ref name=":c32p6" />
* It is also the first appearance of Jessica and Rachel. Veronica's commentary thanks Tess "for inspiring me to make Jessica and Rachel!!!", and she has since said the pair were initially created as victims of Tess, with their later development helping drive the comic's shift toward LGBTQ+ inclusivity.<ref name=":c32p7" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/800420040497364992/when-you-decide-to-go-in-a-more-lgbtq-positive|date=2025-11-17}}</ref>
* The lined-paper draft the authors posted in 2017 shows this chapter's pool confrontation already existed before the remaster, with different dialogue.<ref name="tumblr2017" />
== Related chapters ==
* '''[[Carry On]]''': Augustus's introduction chapter. He flirts with Daisy there, which makes his whisper behind her here a second approach rather than a first.<ref name=":c31p1" />
* '''[[Bonding]]''': The Daisy thread picks right back up two chapters later. The lunch table learns she's been "hanging with that older kid", and Augustus starts working on her opinion of Tess.<ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c34/p1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c34/p2}}</ref>
* '''[[Pillow Talk]]''': The full flashback to what page 7 only gestures at. It shows Rachel's brother Aaron in the hospital with his broken arm, Roger's attack on him, and Tess's own bullying of Jessica.<ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c61/p22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c61/p29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c61/p34}}</ref>
* '''[[Just Beautiful]]''': The secrecy pact made under the table finally collapses here. Yashy learns Mike has had a girlfriend for a year, and she does not take it well.<ref>{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c71/p32}}</ref>
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{BCB chapters}}
{{BCB chapters}}
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[[Category:Chapters]]
[[Category:Volume One]]
[[Category:Volume One]]
[[Category:Omnibus 1]]
[[Category:Omnibus 1]]

Revision as of 09:51, 19 July 2026

Follow Me
Chapter32 of 127 (list of chapters)
PublishedFebruary 18, 2007 (2007-02-18)
Page count7
Major charactersDaisy, Augustus, Tess, Lucy, Paulo, Mike, Yashy
Minor charactersAbbey, David, Alec McCain, Jessica, Rachel, Gym Teacher (High School), Amaya
LocationsRoseville High School
Collected inVolume One, Omnibus 1
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Prom talk turns into a food fight, Lucy launches a cover-up under the lunch table, a charming stranger keeps telling Daisy exactly what she wants to hear, and Tess's hidden past finally corners her in the freshman hallway.

Synopsis

Lunch starts innocently enough, with Lucy asking Tess about junior prom and Tess nervously deflecting. Mike grumbles that he has nobody to take, and Yashy, who snuck to school in Lucy's bag again, insists his date is sitting right there. Mike gets as far as "SAN--" before Lucy's empty juice box bounces off his head, and David seizes the chaos to declare a food fight. A newcomer called McCain lectures the table on the poor odds of long-distance teenage relationships until Mike tells him to shut it.[1]

Lucy herself has vanished under the table, and a kick from below brings a yowling Mike down to join her. There she pleads with him not to mention Sandy around Yashy, claiming the little pet is protective of him ("You're like a father to her"). Mike softens and apologizes. The pair are nearly nose to nose when Yashy pops up behind them, wondering if it isn't "a little old-fashioned to indulge yourselves under the dining table?"[2]

Daisy, watching from her seat, murmurs that it's not fair. A voice behind her whispers that Mike isn't the only one out there. It belongs to Augustus, who plays coy with a blushing Daisy while the rest of the table glares. Yashy calls him a creeper outright, and when Tess says she can see through his act, his pointed comeback about "honesty, Tessa" frightens her into silence. Paulo stands up and tells him to get lost, so Augustus takes his leave, assuring Daisy he only came to see her. Tess warmly thanks Paulo, Paulo flirts back, and Daisy pouts at the pair of them.[3]

It all proves too much for Daisy, who storms outside in tears and sulks alone on a grassy hill. Being sweet, innocent "Little Miss Perfect" is the problem, she decides — she'd get noticed if she were taller, bustier and sexier.[4] Abbey tries to check on her during gym class at the pool, but Augustus reaches her first and offers to see her after school. Tess demands to know what he wants, gets needled about her "little secret" for her trouble, and Paulo steps in to defend her a second time.[5]

Augustus takes Daisy's hand and says "Well, Daisy, you made the right decision."
Daisy takes the nice stranger up on his offer.

After the bell, Lucy catches up to Daisy in the hallway with some unusually personal advice. She warns Daisy to "be really careful with who you trust", and not to expect other people to make her feel better about herself. Daisy thanks her sincerely, then privately writes the whole thing off. It must be easy to push people away when you're that pretty, she figures, and she just wants a little bit of that for herself. She meets Augustus after school anyway. He takes her hand and tells her, "Well, Daisy, you made the right decision."[6]

Tess, meanwhile, has an ambush of her own waiting. She and Paulo part ways after school, with Paulo prodding at why she always takes such an odd route out and offering to walk her to her bus stop. She waves him off. Alone in the freshman hallway, she is cornered by two older girls, Jessica and Rachel, who sneer that it's only fair she takes her turn "feeling hunted and trapped". Tess doesn't argue, and tries to apologize. Rachel slaps her across the face, screaming that her brother still can't play soccer after what she and Roger did. The pair walk away, leaving Tess crumpled against a locker in tears, hoping Paulo never has to hear about any of it.[7]

Character dynamics

  • Daisy and Augustus: The two had met exactly once before, when he flirted with her in Carry On, and Daisy herself notes he's "a complete stranger".[8][3] His flattery lands squarely on her jealousy and her sense of being invisible, and neither her friends' open distrust nor Lucy's warning slows her down. By the end of the chapter she has met him alone and taken his hand.[6]
  • Tess, Jessica and Rachel: Augustus's needling about "honesty" and Tess's "little secret" pays off in the freshman hallway.[5] Jessica and Rachel were on the receiving end of whatever Tess and Roger did last year, and her hiding place among the freshmen is now blown.[7] Tess doesn't defend herself for a moment.
  • Paulo and Tess: Paulo appoints himself Tess's defender, telling Augustus off at lunch and again at the pool, then offering to walk her to her bus stop.[3][7] Veronica's commentary confirms he "is getting a lot more protective of Tess" and is "beginning to feel things".[5] Tess's last words of the chapter are an apology to an absent Paulo, dreading the day he hears what she used to be.
  • Mike and Lucy: Sandy has been Mike's official girlfriend since the phone call in A New Leaf, and ordinary lunch-table conversation besides.[9] Mike nearly says her name in front of everyone here.[1] Lucy's under-the-table plea creates a standing arrangement: Sandy is not to be mentioned around Yashy.[2] Lucy sells it as protecting Yashy's feelings, and Mike walks away apologetic and complicit.

Trivia & observations

The original lined-paper draft of page 5, shared by the authors in 2017 when a reader asked whether Paulo even knows who Augustus is.[10]
  • This is the first appearance of Alec McCain, a character created by T. Ashley Jenkins, creator of the puzzle game Petal Crash. Veronica describes him as "David except opposite in personality" and warns readers not to expect him around regularly.[1]
  • All seven pages went up over just two days in March 2010, and the chapter is a remake of an older version. Veronica says the original hill scene had Daisy "really mopey and sad", and she rewrote it to show Daisy's "bitter side" instead.[4]
  • Veronica's page 2 commentary fills in why Lucy panics. Yashy once heard girlfriend rumors about Mike and Lucy dismissed them, and news of a girlfriend who isn't Lucy would go down "very VERY badly".[2]
  • Lucy's hallway advice comes with an official warning label. Oliver's commentary under page 6 tells readers to "take Lucy's words with a grain of salt, here. Nothing's quite so simple."[6]
  • It is also the first appearance of Jessica and Rachel. Veronica's commentary thanks Tess "for inspiring me to make Jessica and Rachel!!!", and she has since said the pair were initially created as victims of Tess, with their later development helping drive the comic's shift toward LGBTQ+ inclusivity.[7][11]
  • The lined-paper draft the authors posted in 2017 shows this chapter's pool confrontation already existed before the remaster, with different dialogue.[10]

Related chapters

  • Carry On: Augustus's introduction chapter. He flirts with Daisy there, which makes his whisper behind her here a second approach rather than a first.[8]
  • Bonding: The Daisy thread picks right back up two chapters later. The lunch table learns she's been "hanging with that older kid", and Augustus starts working on her opinion of Tess.[12][13]
  • Pillow Talk: The full flashback to what page 7 only gestures at. It shows Rachel's brother Aaron in the hospital with his broken arm, Roger's attack on him, and Tess's own bullying of Jessica.[14][15][16]
  • Just Beautiful: The secrecy pact made under the table finally collapses here. Yashy learns Mike has had a girlfriend for a year, and she does not take it well.[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 4
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 5
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 6
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 32: Follow Me, page 7
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 31: Carry On, page 1
  9. ↑ Chapter 23: A New Leaf, page 3
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 . 2017-11-20 https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/167679758207/does-paulo-even-know-who-augustus-is-i-cant. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ . 2025-11-17 https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/800420040497364992/when-you-decide-to-go-in-a-more-lgbtq-positive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ Chapter 34: Bonding, page 1
  13. ↑ Chapter 34: Bonding, page 2
  14. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 22
  15. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 29
  16. ↑ Chapter 61: Pillow Talk, page 34
  17. ↑ Chapter 71: Just Beautiful, page 32
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