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| major_characters = [[Lucy]], [[Augustus]], [[Paulo]], [[Daisy]], [[Abbey]], [[Mike]]
| minor_characters =  
| minor_characters = [[Sue]], [[David]], [[Madison]], [[Courtney]], [[Jasmine]], [[Haley]], [[Mina]], [[Cassidy]], [[Rachel]], [[Jessica]], [[Matt]], [[Jordan]], [[Sam]], [[Amaya]], [[Katie]], [[Stacy]]
| locations =  
| locations = [[Roseville High School]], [[Lucy's house]], [[Abandoned warehouse rooftop]], [[Northern Highway]], [[Neighborhood sidewalks and streets]]
| collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six|Volume Six]]
| collected_in = [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Volume Six|Volume Six]]
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[[Daisy]]'s sweet sixteen is days away, but the week has other plans: [[Lucy]] walks back into [[Roseville High School|Roseville High]] at last, one couple doesn't survive lunch, and the truth about the night she left finally comes out.
== Synopsis ==
Daisy is practically floating on her way to school, with her sixteenth birthday coming up on Saturday.<ref name=":c95p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p1}}</ref> Her party invites hit a snag at the lockers, though. [[Paulo]] bolts the moment she approaches and starts chatting up [[Courtney]] instead.<ref name=":c95p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p2}}</ref> [[Madison]] catches the act and chews him out for stringing [[Rachel]] along, leaving him to slink off muttering "god I'm sick of women".<ref name=":c95p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p4}}</ref> Daisy, meanwhile, confides to [[Mike]] that she thinks Paulo hates her, and Mike offers to ask him what's going on.<ref name=":c95p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p5}}</ref>
As it turns out, he never gets the chance. Mike steps into first period and freezes: Lucy is standing in the doorway, back at school in her private-school uniform.<ref name=":c95p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p6}}</ref> The others mob her while Mike hides behind the door frame, and Lucy is friendly but keeps her ordeal at arm's length.<ref name=":c95p7">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p7}}</ref> Paulo's welcome goes worse. He pounces on her, compliments her chest, and gets kicked into the ceiling for it.<ref name=":c95p9">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p9}}</ref> Lucy turns down Daisy's party but produces a birthday gift she'd already wrapped.<ref name=":c95p10">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p10}}</ref> Mike spends the whole class staring at her, unable to say a word.<ref name=":c95p11">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p11}}</ref>
[[File:c95_p9_panel3.png|alt=Lucy kicks Paulo into the ceiling with a loud CRASH as David, Abbey, Daisy and Sue stare up at him.|thumb|Paulo's welcome-back hug lasts about four seconds.]]
Lunch is where the mood sours. Lucy would rather take a walk alone than sit with anybody, and [[Sue]] has to physically stop Paulo from tagging along.<ref name=":c95p13">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p13}}</ref> Back at the table, Paulo decides Lucy's distance is Mike's fault. He yanks Mike around by his own scarf<ref name=":c95p14">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p14}}</ref> and screams Daisy down when she defends him.<ref name=":c95p15">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p15}}</ref> [[Abbey]] demands an apology, and Paulo fires back with "Gonna teach me another lesson?!"<ref name=":c95p15" /> That's how the whole table finds out that Abbey choked him at the con.<ref name=":c95p16">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p16}}</ref>
The revelation costs Daisy her relationship. She's horrified by what Abbey did, and she says so. Abbey only hears her defending Paulo yet again, and he dumps her in front of the whole cafeteria: "You can '''HAVE''' him, then!!"<ref name=":c95p17">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p17}}</ref> A shaken Abbey barely makes it across the room before [[Jasmine]] insists he sit with her friends.<ref name=":c95p19">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p19}}</ref>
Lucy's lunchtime walk, meanwhile, turns up [[Augustus]] lying in the grass near the track. She leaps into his arms in tears, then slaps him and demands to know what he's still doing at school.<ref name=":c95p21">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p21}}</ref> As it turns out, the absentee policy held him back, and [[Toby]] wants him to drop out.<ref name=":c95p23">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p23}}</ref> Lucy won't have it: "Maybe you've given up, but I sure as hell won't! This year, I'm gonna fight for you!"<ref name=":c95p23" /> After the final bell, Rachel's crowd spots the two of them leaving together, to Madison's very loud outrage.<ref name=":c95p27">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p27}}</ref>
Lucy walks Augustus to [[Lucy's house|her house]] and introduces him to her startled family 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>
The flashback that follows shows the night of Lucy's suicide attempt. Alone in a blizzard after the play, Lucy spirals into self-loathing, convinced she's a parasite and that nobody cares about her.<ref name=":c95p33">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p33}}</ref> She climbs to [[Abandoned warehouse rooftop|the roof of an abandoned furniture building]] and jumps.<ref name=":c95p36">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p36}}</ref> She survives the fall, and Augustus finds her lying broken in the snow, begging to die.<ref name=":c95p38">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p38}}</ref> He takes out his phone. Lucy is sure he's calling "him," and screams at him not to as she loses consciousness. The call, though, is to 911: "You need to send an ambulance. My friend's trying to kill herself."<ref name=":c95p41">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p41}}</ref>
Back in the present, Lucy's family takes Augustus in. Her mother tearfully embraces him<ref name=":c95p42">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p42}}</ref> and insists he stay for chicken lasagna.<ref name=":c95p45">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p45}}</ref> Her father, who already knows his circumstances, offers him the guest room "'til graduation."<ref name=":c95p45" /> Augustus can hardly believe any of it is real, and he tearfully accepts.<ref name=":c95p47">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p47}}</ref> Lucy sets her terms on the stairs: no more skipping school, and Daisy is still off-limits.<ref name=":c95p48">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p48}}</ref> He barely gets a moment alone in his new room before [[Jordan]] barges in, offering to go easy on his "baby sister's savior" in exchange for SAT tutoring.<ref name=":c95p50">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p50}}</ref>
== Critical moments ==
* Mike walks into first period and comes face to face with Lucy, back at school for the first time since her disappearance.<ref name=":c95p6" /><ref name=":c95p11" />
* At the lunch table, Paulo answers Abbey's demand for an apology with "Gonna teach me another lesson?!", and the whole group learns that Abbey choked him at the con.<ref name=":c95p15" /><ref name=":c95p16" />
* Daisy refuses to excuse the assault, and Abbey breaks up with her on the spot, shouting "We're '''DONE!!'''" across the cafeteria.<ref name=":c95p17" />
* Lucy introduces Augustus to her family as "the boy who saved my life", triggering the flashback that explains her disappearance.<ref name=":c95p30" />
* In the flashback, Lucy walks into a blizzard after the play, climbs to the roof of an abandoned building, and jumps.<ref name=":c95p36" />
* Augustus's phone call looks like a betrayal, with Lucy screaming at him not to call "him." It's actually a call for an ambulance, and it saves her life.<ref name=":c95p41" />
* Lucy's father offers Augustus the guest room until graduation, and Augustus tearfully accepts.<ref name=":c95p45" /><ref name=":c95p47" />
[[File:c95_p21_panel6.png|alt=Lucy, crying, leaps into Augustus's arms as leaves fall around them.|thumb|Worth missing lunch for.]]
== Character dynamics ==
* '''Abbey and Daisy:''' Daisy won't condone the con chokehold, and Abbey hears only that she's "Defending him AGAIN." He dumps her in front of the entire cafeteria, ending their relationship.<ref name=":c95p17" />
* '''Lucy and Augustus:''' He saved her life on the worst night of it, and she vows to fight for his future in return. By evening he's living under her family's roof.<ref name=":c95p23" /><ref name=":c95p47" />
* '''Paulo and Daisy:''' What Daisy fears is hatred turns out to be avoidance, and it boils over into the cruelest thing Paulo has said to her on panel: "'''JESUS''', Daisy, do you '''EVER''' shut up?!"<ref name=":c95p15" />
== Trivia & observations ==
* Lucy's return page went up on her in-universe birthday, with Veronica's commentary reading "Happy birthday, Lucy!!"<ref name=":c95p6" /> Oliver notes she'd been gone from the comic a little under four years in real time.<ref name=":c95p7" />
* Veronica has said Augustus was deliberately kept in the background in the chapters before this one, so the rescue reveal would land as a genuine surprise.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/806218240887062528/veronica-this-is-a-very-thoughtful-interesting |title=Bittersweet Candy Bowl Tumblr post |website=Tumblr |date=2026-01-20 |author=Veronica}}</ref>
* Lucy calling herself a parasite in the flashback quotes the exact word Mike threw at her in [[December]].<ref name=":c95p33" /><ref name=":c68p30">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c68/p30}}</ref>
* This is the first physical on-panel appearance of Lucy's father, who had previously only been seen on television winning a race qualifier.<ref name=":c95p29">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c95/p29}}</ref><ref name=":c65p19">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c65/p19}}</ref>
== Related chapters ==
* '''[[Breaking Up]]''': Lucy's sudden withdrawal from school and the hospital scenes there are the questions this chapter's flashback finally answers.
* '''[[December]]''': The direct emotional cause of the flashback, and the source of Lucy's "parasite" self-talk.
* '''[[Ten Seconds to Midnight]]''': On New Year's Eve, Augustus pulled Lucy back from a rooftop ledge. This time he could only save her after the fall.
* '''[[Guest of Honor]]''': The con where Abbey choked Paulo in a restroom, the incident Paulo weaponizes at the lunch table here.
* '''[[Trapped]]''': Establishes Augustus's home life and the hold Toby and [[Alejandro]] have over him.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{BCB chapters}}
{{BCB chapters}}
[[Category:Chapters]]
[[Category:Chapters]]
[[Category:Volume Six]]
[[Category:Volume Six]]

Revision as of 06:55, 9 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
Minor charactersSue, David, Madison, Courtney, Jasmine, Haley, Mina, Cassidy, Rachel, Jessica, Matt, Jordan, Sam, Amaya, Katie, Stacy
LocationsRoseville High School, Lucy's house, Abandoned warehouse rooftop, Northern Highway, Neighborhood sidewalks and streets
Collected inVolume Six
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Daisy's sweet sixteen is days away, but the week has other plans: Lucy walks back into Roseville High at last, one couple doesn't survive lunch, and the truth about the night she left finally comes out.

Synopsis

Daisy is practically floating on her way to school, with her sixteenth birthday coming up on Saturday.[1] Her party invites hit a snag at the lockers, though. Paulo bolts the moment she approaches and starts chatting up Courtney instead.[2] Madison catches the act and chews him out for stringing Rachel along, leaving him to slink off muttering "god I'm sick of women".[3] Daisy, meanwhile, confides to Mike that she thinks Paulo hates her, and Mike offers to ask him what's going on.[4]

As it turns out, he never gets the chance. Mike steps into first period and freezes: Lucy is standing in the doorway, back at school in her private-school uniform.[5] The others mob her while Mike hides behind the door frame, and Lucy is friendly but keeps her ordeal at arm's length.[6] Paulo's welcome goes worse. He pounces on her, compliments her chest, and gets kicked into the ceiling for it.[7] Lucy turns down Daisy's party but produces a birthday gift she'd already wrapped.[8] Mike spends the whole class staring at her, unable to say a word.[9]

Lucy kicks Paulo into the ceiling with a loud CRASH as David, Abbey, Daisy and Sue stare up at him.
Paulo's welcome-back hug lasts about four seconds.

Lunch is where the mood sours. Lucy would rather take a walk alone than sit with anybody, and Sue has to physically stop Paulo from tagging along.[10] Back at the table, Paulo decides Lucy's distance is Mike's fault. He yanks Mike around by his own scarf[11] and screams Daisy down when she defends him.[12] Abbey demands an apology, and Paulo fires back with "Gonna teach me another lesson?!"[12] That's how the whole table finds out that Abbey choked him at the con.[13]

The revelation costs Daisy her relationship. She's horrified by what Abbey did, and she says so. Abbey only hears her defending Paulo yet again, and he dumps her in front of the whole cafeteria: "You can HAVE him, then!!"[14] A shaken Abbey barely makes it across the room before Jasmine insists he sit with her friends.[15]

Lucy's lunchtime walk, meanwhile, turns up Augustus lying in the grass near the track. She leaps into his arms in tears, then slaps him and demands to know what he's still doing at school.[16] As it turns out, the absentee policy held him back, and Toby wants him to drop out.[17] Lucy won't have it: "Maybe you've given up, but I sure as hell won't! This year, I'm gonna fight for you!"[17] After the final bell, Rachel's crowd spots the two of them leaving together, to Madison's very loud outrage.[18]

Lucy walks Augustus to her house and introduces him to her startled family with a single sentence: "He's the boy who saved my life."[19]

The flashback that follows shows the night of Lucy's suicide attempt. Alone in a blizzard after the play, Lucy spirals into self-loathing, convinced she's a parasite and that nobody cares about her.[20] She climbs to the roof of an abandoned furniture building and jumps.[21] She survives the fall, and Augustus finds her lying broken in the snow, begging to die.[22] He takes out his phone. Lucy is sure he's calling "him," and screams at him not to as she loses consciousness. The call, though, is to 911: "You need to send an ambulance. My friend's trying to kill herself."[23]

Back in the present, Lucy's family takes Augustus in. Her mother tearfully embraces him[24] and insists he stay for chicken lasagna.[25] Her father, who already knows his circumstances, offers him the guest room "'til graduation."[25] Augustus can hardly believe any of it is real, and he tearfully accepts.[26] Lucy sets her terms on the stairs: no more skipping school, and Daisy is still off-limits.[27] He barely gets a moment alone in his new room before Jordan barges in, offering to go easy on his "baby sister's savior" in exchange for SAT tutoring.[28]

Critical moments

  • Mike walks into first period and comes face to face with Lucy, back at school for the first time since her disappearance.[5][9]
  • At the lunch table, Paulo answers Abbey's demand for an apology with "Gonna teach me another lesson?!", and the whole group learns that Abbey choked him at the con.[12][13]
  • Daisy refuses to excuse the assault, and Abbey breaks up with her on the spot, shouting "We're DONE!!" across the cafeteria.[14]
  • Lucy introduces Augustus to her family as "the boy who saved my life", triggering the flashback that explains her disappearance.[19]
  • In the flashback, Lucy walks into a blizzard after the play, climbs to the roof of an abandoned building, and jumps.[21]
  • Augustus's phone call looks like a betrayal, with Lucy screaming at him not to call "him." It's actually a call for an ambulance, and it saves her life.[23]
  • Lucy's father offers Augustus the guest room until graduation, and Augustus tearfully accepts.[25][26]
Lucy, crying, leaps into Augustus's arms as leaves fall around them.
Worth missing lunch for.

Character dynamics

  • Abbey and Daisy: Daisy won't condone the con chokehold, and Abbey hears only that she's "Defending him AGAIN." He dumps her in front of the entire cafeteria, ending their relationship.[14]
  • Lucy and Augustus: He saved her life on the worst night of it, and she vows to fight for his future in return. By evening he's living under her family's roof.[17][26]
  • Paulo and Daisy: What Daisy fears is hatred turns out to be avoidance, and it boils over into the cruelest thing Paulo has said to her on panel: "JESUS, Daisy, do you EVER shut up?!"[12]

Trivia & observations

  • Lucy's return page went up on her in-universe birthday, with Veronica's commentary reading "Happy birthday, Lucy!!"[5] Oliver notes she'd been gone from the comic a little under four years in real time.[6]
  • Veronica has said Augustus was deliberately kept in the background in the chapters before this one, so the rescue reveal would land as a genuine surprise.[29]
  • Lucy calling herself a parasite in the flashback quotes the exact word Mike threw at her in December.[20][30]
  • This is the first physical on-panel appearance of Lucy's father, who had previously only been seen on television winning a race qualifier.[31][32]

Related chapters

  • Breaking Up: Lucy's sudden withdrawal from school and the hospital scenes there are the questions this chapter's flashback finally answers.
  • December: The direct emotional cause of the flashback, and the source of Lucy's "parasite" self-talk.
  • Ten Seconds to Midnight: On New Year's Eve, Augustus pulled Lucy back from a rooftop ledge. This time he could only save her after the fall.
  • Guest of Honor: The con where Abbey choked Paulo in a restroom, the incident Paulo weaponizes at the lunch table here.
  • Trapped: Establishes Augustus's home life and the hold Toby and Alejandro have over him.

References

  1. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 1
  2. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 2
  3. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 4
  4. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 5
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 6
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 7
  7. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 9
  8. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 10
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 11
  10. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 13
  11. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 14
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 15
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 16
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 17
  15. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 19
  16. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 21
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 23
  18. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 27
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 30
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 33
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 36
  22. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 38
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 41
  24. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 42
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 45
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Chapter 95: Love Again, page 47
  27. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 48
  28. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 50
  29. ↑ Veronica (2026-01-20). "Bittersweet Candy Bowl Tumblr post". Tumblr.
  30. ↑ Chapter 68: December, page 30
  31. ↑ Chapter 95: Love Again, page 29
  32. ↑ Chapter 65: Dinner Time, page 19
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