She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 03

She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 03

I canceled the upload and returned to our conversation.

For a long time, the typing indicator appeared and disappeared beneath his name.

I drafted a reply of my own.

Mira: [Everything she knew about you, even the words that moved you, might have come from my comic.]

I wrote the sentence, then deleted it one letter at a time.

At that moment, I sounded like a jealous side character desperate to break up the happy couple.

Adrian’s next message finally arrived.

Adrian: [None of the rest matters to me. What I’ve always wanted is to be chosen for myself, without an angle or an ulterior motive.

Brielle said…]

What followed was an unusually long explanation of exactly how she had reached him.

That was not the way Adrian normally communicated.

During the ten years we had known each other online, we mostly discussed difficult math problems and occasionally shared whatever was happening in our lives.

Whether he was solving an impossible proof or facing a personal crisis, he always gave me the conclusion and brushed past the process.

Yet now, paragraphs continued appearing on my screen.

Adrian: [Two years ago, you thanked me for letting you use me as inspiration.]

Adrian: [Now I want to thank you. Your story brought the heroine of my life to me.]

My fingertip rested against the glass without moving.

I finally understood that he did not need an answer from me.

When the comic first exploded in popularity, he had contacted me with a question.

Adrian: [I found the comic. If the hero was based on me, was the heroine based on you?

I didn’t even know you were a woman.]

My profile still had the platform’s default settings from the day I created it, with no gender listed.

I told him the heroine and I had nothing in common except being women.

Adrian replied: [That only made me want to meet you more.]

Now the same cool-toned screen carried a very different message.

Adrian: [I’m lucky to have you as a friend. At the very least, I should have taken you to dinner.]

Adrian: [But I just started dating someone. I couldn’t put her in a situation that made her jealous or insecure.

I thought it would be better if we didn’t meet tomorrow.]

Adrian: [What do you think?]