She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 01

She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 01

My name was Mira Ellison.

During my sophomore year, the webcomic I had been serializing suddenly went viral, and readers discovered that its male lead had been inspired by Adrian Hale, Kingsley University’s untouchable math prodigy.

The online friend I had talked to for ten years sent me a message almost immediately.

Adrian: [If I’m the model for the hero, are you the heroine? And wait, you’re a girl?]

Once Adrian learned the truth, he became determined to meet me in person.

I agreed and chose a date three weeks later, the same day the final episode of the comic would be released.

The day before our meeting, however, my roommate Brielle Sawyer confessed her feelings to Adrian.

She copied the heroine’s confession from the ending I had not yet published.

Adrian said yes.

Brielle returned to our residence-hall suite and offered me an apologetic smile. “Sorry I borrowed your idea.

“Adrian and I will take you out to dinner sometime.”

I took out my phone and sent Adrian one sentence.

Mira: [Brielle isn’t me.]

…

While the message was sending, Brielle kept watching me. “Or was there something you wanted but couldn’t afford?

“I could ask my boyfriend to buy it for you.”

My other roommates, Keira Dawson and Jocelyn Park, could not stay quiet.

“We all knew Mira had feelings for Adrian,” Keira said. “How could you use something she created to confess to him?”

Jocelyn folded her arms. “That wasn’t borrowing.

“It was stealing.”

Tears filled Brielle’s eyes, but no one rushed to comfort her.

I had begun publishing *When Time Stayed Awake* shortly after high school graduation.

Once I started college, I often worked on my drawing tablet in our suite, so all three roommates knew I was the anonymous creator.

They promised to protect my anonymous identity. In return, I sometimes used my webcomic royalties to buy them gifts.

I never expected the webcomic to become popular enough for readers to identify Adrian as the real-life inspiration for the male lead.

After the theory spread, Brielle asked, “Mira, you didn’t actually like Kingsley’s campus heartthrob, did you?”

I said nothing.

She laughed. “Adrian had been famous since freshman orientation.

“He was always near the top of the math cohort, and half the women on campus wanted him.”

“But guys who looked like that and came from money were never as innocent as they claimed.

“Even if he told everyone he was single, there had to be women behind the scenes.”

“He isn’t like that,” I interrupted without thinking.

The room went quiet. They understood then that this was not merely an artist borrowing a handsome face.

It was an unspoken love I had carried alone.

Brielle gasped dramatically. “Then I officially ship you two.”

After that, she pestered me until I showed them the completed ending.

I did not think much of it; I only made all three of them promise again that they would keep it private.

That evening, Keira called and told me to open the university-wide Discord server. Only then did I learn what had happened on Founders’ Lawn.

Students had uploaded videos from every possible angle.

In the sunset, a radiant girl stepped into Adrian’s path and staged an elaborate, unapologetically public declaration of love.

It unfolded exactly as the final scene of my comic did.

At the end of one clip, Brielle looked at him through tear-bright eyes. “I had never done anything like this for anyone else.

“All my courage and all my feelings belonged to you. Would you give us a chance?”

Those were the heroine’s words too.

Adrian did not embrace Brielle the way I had drawn the hero embracing Lila. He only lifted a hand and wiped away her tears.

The crowd erupted. Everyone began shouting for him to say yes.

Then I heard his answer clearly through the video.

“Yes.”

On May 20, 2026, they became a couple.