She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 08

She Stole My Comic Ending And My Crush Chapter 08

June arrived, along with a finals-week nostalgia event organized by the math department’s student

activities board.

Volunteers handed lollipops to everyone leaving the academic building.

The woman who placed one in my hand hesitated. I recognized her from several large lectures, though we had never spoken.

I had walked halfway across the plaza when she caught up with me.

“Mira, is Brielle your roommate?”

I nodded.

She struggled to arrange her words. “Her newest TikTok seems to be about you.

“There’s only one woman among the top five students in our math cohort, so people are starting to guess.”

“I wasn’t completely sure, but the things she said were cruel. I thought you should see it.”

Her friend hurried over and grabbed her arm. “Why are you talking to someone like her?

“Being good at math doesn’t mean she isn’t disgusting.”

The first woman stopped her before she could continue./

I looked directly at the friend. “Apologize.”

She bristled. “Do you have no shame?

“You built fantasies around someone else’s boyfriend, then attacked the woman he actually chose.”

“Now the entire department had to listen to jokes about what kind of women our program produced.”

The classmate who had warned me covered her friend’s mouth with one hand.

“I’m sorry,” she said quickly. “Natalie Cruz, by the way.

“My friend spoke before she thought.”

Keira and Jocelyn had already reached us. None of us intended to pretend the insult had not happened.

We moved into an empty classroom, where Natalie showed me the chain of events.

Someone had copied my reply from the webcomic platform and posted it beneath Brielle’s confession video.

Brielle finally clarified that she was not the comic’s creator.

That answer produced an obvious question.

[So the comic artist copied a real confession and drew it overnight? That was some impressive plagiarism speed.]

One of my most devoted readers refused to believe it.

Within hours, she posted a detailed analysis proving that a creator with my scheduled relcase history would have completed the finale well in advance.

She argued that the unpublished material had been leaked to Brielle.

The two sides fought until the debate became a viral campus controversy. Four days after the confession, Brielle uploaded a second video.

It opened with her eyes red and wet.

“My roommate created *When Time Stayed Awake*,” she said. “She is one of the top five students in Kingsley’s math program, and I’ve always looked up to her.”

“I thought she was the best role model and friend I could have. I never imagined she would abandon our

friendship because she wanted my boyfriend.”