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| minor_characters = [[Tess]], [[Lucy]], [[Sue]], [[Amaya]], [[Katie]], [[Stacy]], [[Kevin]], [[Janet]], [[Molly]]
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| locations = [[Roseville High School]], [[Abbey's house]], [[Park]], [[Daisy's house]]
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[[Paulo]]'s forgotten essay lands the boys at [[Abbey]]'s house, where [[Mike]] gets a crash course in his classmate's home life and very nearly a fistfight. Meanwhile, [[Daisy]]'s awful afternoon ends with someone holding her hand, and a very bad idea taking shape.
== Synopsis ==
Lunch finds [[Paulo]] on top of the world. [[Tess]] has her prom dress picked out for tomorrow night, and she has him wrapped around her finger.<ref name=":c38p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p1}}</ref> His good mood lasts right up until [[Lucy]] mentions the English essay due tomorrow, which Paulo hasn't started. [[Abbey]] calls him a "selfish brat" and refuses to help, then grudgingly gives in once [[Mike]] offers to come along and ease the tension. Abbey will host at his place, and he's oddly insistent that nobody bother his sister.<ref name=":c38p2">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p2}}</ref>
After school, [[Daisy]] runs down [[Katie]], convinced their Easter-break outings made them friends. Katie sets her straight in front of [[Stacy]] and company. She only tolerated Daisy because of the older girls, and Daisy is "not exactly in my, like, league".<ref name=":c38p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p3}}</ref> Abbey sees the whole thing and hurries after her, promising to walk her home and keep her company all night if she needs it. Then Paulo and Mike show up to collect their tutor, and Daisy runs off feeling lied to.<ref name=":c38p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p4}}</ref>
The tutoring session doubles as the boys' first look inside [[Abbey's house]]. Abbey's parents turn out to be [[Kevin]], a cat just home from work, and [[Janet]], a dog with cookies in the oven. Paulo is still doing the arithmetic on that pairing when Mike snaps "'''HE'S ADOPTED YOU IDIOT'''".<ref name=":c38p5">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p5}}</ref> In the kitchen, Janet tells Mike that Abbey joined the family about four years ago.<ref name=":c38p6">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p6}}</ref> Out in the backyard, Abbey ends up writing the whole essay himself, since Paulo cheerfully admits he read neither of the books.<ref name=":c38p7">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p7}}</ref>
Mike stays behind after Paulo leaves, and the pleasant evening goes wrong fast. When Mike suggests Abbey simply hasn't given Paulo a chance, Abbey turns the accusation right around. Mike only pays attention to girls he has a crush on, never once wondered where Daisy has been all these lunch periods, and doesn't even know she was in tears today.<ref name=":c38p8">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p8}}</ref> Mike protests that he's just not interested in her, and Abbey insists that isn't the point — he just needs to care. The argument turns physical when Abbey throws a punch. Mike catches it, and his own buried resentment of Lucy's dependence comes spilling out: "You think I wouldn't cut her off if I could?!"<ref name=":c38p9">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p9}}</ref> It takes Abbey's little sister [[Molly]], in tears between the two of them, to stop the fight. She doesn't want Abbey to go to the hospital, because if he does, he might not come back. Both boys back down, ashamed.<ref name=":c38p9" />
[[File:c38_p11_panel1.png|alt=Augustus, half-hidden behind a pillar, holds Daisy's hand while she looks back at him in surprise.|thumb|Augustus turns up exactly when Daisy is at her loneliest.]]
Daisy, meanwhile, drifts through a crowded plaza feeling like the only person around without weekend plans, until a hand quietly closes around hers.<ref name=":c38p10">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p10}}</ref> It belongs to [[Augustus]], half-hidden behind a pillar.<ref name=":c38p11">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p11}}</ref> He talks her past every objection she raises. [[Sandy]] isn't even here, long-distance never lasts, and hasn't Daisy been the one getting cheated all these years? Her resentment pours out, including that Sandy was her own best friend before Mike came along. Then Daisy asks him for the plan and declares that "Sandy doesn't deserve him." For a moment, even Augustus looks unsettled.<ref name=":c38p12">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p12}}</ref>
Mike gets his chance to make amends that same evening, when Daisy passes him in the [[Park|park]]. He apologizes for neglecting her lately and walks her home.<ref name=":c38p13">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p13}}</ref> Outside [[Daisy's house]], she asks him to the carnival's couples-only ticket night. It doesn't have to mean anything, she insists, since Paulo and Tess are going to prom "just as friends" too. Mike squirms, then agrees, and stands stiff as a board through the hug that follows. Once he's gone, Daisy pumps her fist in triumph. Augustus watches from a distance as she thinks to herself, "It'll be a night you'll never forget.. .. my love ♥"<ref name=":c38p14">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c38/p14}}</ref>
== Character dynamics ==
* '''Mike and Abbey:''' Before today they were barely more than classmates, and Mike didn't even know Abbey was adopted.<ref name=":c38p5" /> The essay session gives Mike his first look at Abbey's family, and the fight shows each boy the other's rawest nerve: Abbey's protectiveness of Daisy, and Mike's exhaustion with carrying Lucy.<ref name=":c38p9" /> They part on mutual apologies, and Mike spends the walk home ashamed of how little he ever noticed about Abbey's life.<ref name=":c38p10" /> Veronica's commentary is careful to take neither side, noting Mike "isn't a horrible person.. nor is Abbey."<ref name=":c38p13" />
* '''Mike and Daisy:''' Daisy has been skipping lunch with the group for weeks, and until now Abbey was the only one who noticed.<ref name=":c34p1">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c34/p1}}</ref> His tirade actually lands. Mike seeks her out, apologizes, and walks her home.<ref name=":c38p13" /> The mended friendship is compromised from its first minute, though, since Daisy sells the carnival as "just as friends" while privately planning something rather different.<ref name=":c38p14" />
* '''Daisy and Augustus:''' Back in [[Bonding]], Augustus offered to make Daisy feel like the most desirable girl in the world, and she fled, unable to let go of Mike.<ref name=":c34p4">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c34/p4}}</ref> This time he steers her toward Mike instead, patiently dismantling every scruple she raises. He gets rather more than he bargained for, though. Her cold verdict on Sandy visibly worries him.<ref name=":c38p12" />
* '''Daisy and Katie:''' The friendship only ever existed on Daisy's side. Katie could barely remember her name when the older girls recruited her.<ref name=":c37p15">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c37/p15}}</ref> Katie ends the illusion publicly and cruelly, and the humiliation is what sends Daisy drifting into Augustus's reach.<ref name=":c38p3" />
== Trivia & observations ==
* All fourteen pages went up across just two days in March 2010, seven apiece. Veronica's commentary under the final page notes readers "don't have to wait a week for it" and calls the chapter a lead-in to "a season finale of sorts."<ref name=":c38p14" />
* Kevin and Janet were originally written as Abbey's foster parents. Veronica later rewrote it so that, four years on, Abbey is fully adopted: "They're his parents!"<ref name=":c38p5" />
* Paulo's confusion establishes that cats and dogs can't have children together in the BCB universe. Veronica's commentary confirms it's "just a matter of what kind of ANIMAL you are" and notes the roadblock will matter for one relationship down the line.<ref name=":c38p5" /><ref name=":c38p6" />
* This chapter is the first appearance of Kevin, Janet and Molly, and the first time the comic confirms Abbey is adopted.<ref name=":c38p5" /><ref name=":c38p9" />
* Katie's "ugly duckling" jab is recycled material. She aimed the same insult at Lucy back in [[Catty Remarks]].<ref name=":c38p3" /><ref name=":c13p3">{{Cite chapter|url=https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c13/p3}}</ref>
* Daisy's outburst that Mike took Sandy "when she was '''MY''' best friend" is the first time the comic mentions the two were ever close.<ref name=":c38p12" /> The authors have confirmed on Tumblr that Daisy and Sandy really were childhood friends.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/187766177286/hey-what-is-your-opinion-on-the-whole-daisy-and|date=2019-09-17}}</ref>
== Related chapters ==
* '''[[A Different Side]]''': This is where Katie and the older girls took Daisy in over Easter break, creating the "friendship" that Katie disowns here.
* '''[[Bonding]]''': Augustus's "I've told you what you can do" points back to this chapter, where his offer scared Daisy off over her feelings for Mike.
* '''[[Love My Way]]''': Published immediately afterwards, it covers Paulo and Tess at prom and the Mike and Daisy carnival date, where Mike ends up quoting Daisy's own "just as friends" line back at her.
* '''[[Moving On]]''': The opening page reveals who Augustus answers to. He reports to [[Toby]] and [[Alejandro]], and he isn't happy that Daisy got pulled into it.
* '''[[At Loose Ends]]''': The family history behind Molly's fear finally surfaces here. The children's mother [[Charlotte]] went into the hospital and never came back, and the kids were never told the truth.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{BCB chapters}}
{{BCB chapters}}
[[Category:Chapters]]
[[Category:Chapters]]
[[Category:Volume One]]
[[Category:Volume One]]
[[Category:Omnibus 1]]
[[Category:Omnibus 1]]

Revision as of 09:53, 19 July 2026

Rising Temperature
Chapter38 of 127 (list of chapters)
PublishedMay 27, 2007 (2007-05-27)
Page count14
Major charactersMike, Abbey, Daisy, Paulo, Augustus
Minor charactersTess, Lucy, Sue, Amaya, Katie, Stacy, Kevin, Janet, Molly
LocationsRoseville High School, Abbey's house, Park, Daisy's house
Collected inVolume One, Omnibus 1
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Paulo's forgotten essay lands the boys at Abbey's house, where Mike gets a crash course in his classmate's home life and very nearly a fistfight. Meanwhile, Daisy's awful afternoon ends with someone holding her hand, and a very bad idea taking shape.

Synopsis

Lunch finds Paulo on top of the world. Tess has her prom dress picked out for tomorrow night, and she has him wrapped around her finger.[1] His good mood lasts right up until Lucy mentions the English essay due tomorrow, which Paulo hasn't started. Abbey calls him a "selfish brat" and refuses to help, then grudgingly gives in once Mike offers to come along and ease the tension. Abbey will host at his place, and he's oddly insistent that nobody bother his sister.[2]

After school, Daisy runs down Katie, convinced their Easter-break outings made them friends. Katie sets her straight in front of Stacy and company. She only tolerated Daisy because of the older girls, and Daisy is "not exactly in my, like, league".[3] Abbey sees the whole thing and hurries after her, promising to walk her home and keep her company all night if she needs it. Then Paulo and Mike show up to collect their tutor, and Daisy runs off feeling lied to.[4]

The tutoring session doubles as the boys' first look inside Abbey's house. Abbey's parents turn out to be Kevin, a cat just home from work, and Janet, a dog with cookies in the oven. Paulo is still doing the arithmetic on that pairing when Mike snaps "HE'S ADOPTED YOU IDIOT".[5] In the kitchen, Janet tells Mike that Abbey joined the family about four years ago.[6] Out in the backyard, Abbey ends up writing the whole essay himself, since Paulo cheerfully admits he read neither of the books.[7]

Mike stays behind after Paulo leaves, and the pleasant evening goes wrong fast. When Mike suggests Abbey simply hasn't given Paulo a chance, Abbey turns the accusation right around. Mike only pays attention to girls he has a crush on, never once wondered where Daisy has been all these lunch periods, and doesn't even know she was in tears today.[8] Mike protests that he's just not interested in her, and Abbey insists that isn't the point — he just needs to care. The argument turns physical when Abbey throws a punch. Mike catches it, and his own buried resentment of Lucy's dependence comes spilling out: "You think I wouldn't cut her off if I could?!"[9] It takes Abbey's little sister Molly, in tears between the two of them, to stop the fight. She doesn't want Abbey to go to the hospital, because if he does, he might not come back. Both boys back down, ashamed.[9]

Augustus, half-hidden behind a pillar, holds Daisy's hand while she looks back at him in surprise.
Augustus turns up exactly when Daisy is at her loneliest.

Daisy, meanwhile, drifts through a crowded plaza feeling like the only person around without weekend plans, until a hand quietly closes around hers.[10] It belongs to Augustus, half-hidden behind a pillar.[11] He talks her past every objection she raises. Sandy isn't even here, long-distance never lasts, and hasn't Daisy been the one getting cheated all these years? Her resentment pours out, including that Sandy was her own best friend before Mike came along. Then Daisy asks him for the plan and declares that "Sandy doesn't deserve him." For a moment, even Augustus looks unsettled.[12]

Mike gets his chance to make amends that same evening, when Daisy passes him in the park. He apologizes for neglecting her lately and walks her home.[13] Outside Daisy's house, she asks him to the carnival's couples-only ticket night. It doesn't have to mean anything, she insists, since Paulo and Tess are going to prom "just as friends" too. Mike squirms, then agrees, and stands stiff as a board through the hug that follows. Once he's gone, Daisy pumps her fist in triumph. Augustus watches from a distance as she thinks to herself, "It'll be a night you'll never forget.. .. my love ♥"[14]

Character dynamics

  • Mike and Abbey: Before today they were barely more than classmates, and Mike didn't even know Abbey was adopted.[5] The essay session gives Mike his first look at Abbey's family, and the fight shows each boy the other's rawest nerve: Abbey's protectiveness of Daisy, and Mike's exhaustion with carrying Lucy.[9] They part on mutual apologies, and Mike spends the walk home ashamed of how little he ever noticed about Abbey's life.[10] Veronica's commentary is careful to take neither side, noting Mike "isn't a horrible person.. nor is Abbey."[13]
  • Mike and Daisy: Daisy has been skipping lunch with the group for weeks, and until now Abbey was the only one who noticed.[15] His tirade actually lands. Mike seeks her out, apologizes, and walks her home.[13] The mended friendship is compromised from its first minute, though, since Daisy sells the carnival as "just as friends" while privately planning something rather different.[14]
  • Daisy and Augustus: Back in Bonding, Augustus offered to make Daisy feel like the most desirable girl in the world, and she fled, unable to let go of Mike.[16] This time he steers her toward Mike instead, patiently dismantling every scruple she raises. He gets rather more than he bargained for, though. Her cold verdict on Sandy visibly worries him.[12]
  • Daisy and Katie: The friendship only ever existed on Daisy's side. Katie could barely remember her name when the older girls recruited her.[17] Katie ends the illusion publicly and cruelly, and the humiliation is what sends Daisy drifting into Augustus's reach.[3]

Trivia & observations

  • All fourteen pages went up across just two days in March 2010, seven apiece. Veronica's commentary under the final page notes readers "don't have to wait a week for it" and calls the chapter a lead-in to "a season finale of sorts."[14]
  • Kevin and Janet were originally written as Abbey's foster parents. Veronica later rewrote it so that, four years on, Abbey is fully adopted: "They're his parents!"[5]
  • Paulo's confusion establishes that cats and dogs can't have children together in the BCB universe. Veronica's commentary confirms it's "just a matter of what kind of ANIMAL you are" and notes the roadblock will matter for one relationship down the line.[5][6]
  • This chapter is the first appearance of Kevin, Janet and Molly, and the first time the comic confirms Abbey is adopted.[5][9]
  • Katie's "ugly duckling" jab is recycled material. She aimed the same insult at Lucy back in Catty Remarks.[3][18]
  • Daisy's outburst that Mike took Sandy "when she was MY best friend" is the first time the comic mentions the two were ever close.[12] The authors have confirmed on Tumblr that Daisy and Sandy really were childhood friends.[19]

Related chapters

  • A Different Side: This is where Katie and the older girls took Daisy in over Easter break, creating the "friendship" that Katie disowns here.
  • Bonding: Augustus's "I've told you what you can do" points back to this chapter, where his offer scared Daisy off over her feelings for Mike.
  • Love My Way: Published immediately afterwards, it covers Paulo and Tess at prom and the Mike and Daisy carnival date, where Mike ends up quoting Daisy's own "just as friends" line back at her.
  • Moving On: The opening page reveals who Augustus answers to. He reports to Toby and Alejandro, and he isn't happy that Daisy got pulled into it.
  • At Loose Ends: The family history behind Molly's fear finally surfaces here. The children's mother Charlotte went into the hospital and never came back, and the kids were never told the truth.

References

  1. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 1
  2. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 3
  4. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 4
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 5
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 6
  7. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 7
  8. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 8
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 9
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 10
  11. ↑ Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 11
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 12
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 13
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Chapter 38: Rising Temperature, page 14
  15. ↑ Chapter 34: Bonding, page 1
  16. ↑ Chapter 34: Bonding, page 4
  17. ↑ Chapter 37: A Different Side, page 15
  18. ↑ Chapter 13: Puppy Love, page 3
  19. ↑ . 2019-09-17 https://bittersweetcandybowl.tumblr.com/post/187766177286/hey-what-is-your-opinion-on-the-whole-daisy-and. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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