Page 44 of The Fangirl Project

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Evie

I so do not get it. Like don’t you have better things to do than watch people talk about Star Wars all weekend?

Chloe

I could NEVER!!!

Daphne

Pls say the annoying third-wheel guy didn’t tag along again?!?

Me

Sadly HE DID

Evie

Jake needs to learn what boundaries are, wtf?!

Me

I know…But!!! He was off at some of the panels and stuff so me and Jake got to hang out a lot just the two of us

AND

GET THIS

He kissed me!!!

Well

He kissed me on the cheek, but still! It’s a move in the right direction, isn’t it?

Daphne

SCREAMING

Nikita

Yasss girl get your man

Evie

That is SO cute

Chloe

I need a FULL debrief on this asap!!

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Jake isn’t very talkative inthe days following Comic Con, and the Discord chat goes quiet too, only solidifying the need for my recent adjustment to The Fangirl Project—an additional, slightly sideways step that involves pushing Max totally out of the picture.

I try stalking his social media to find some bad takes—something that would prove Max isn’t such a great person after all—but there’snothing.His Instagram looks inactive, and I can’t find a trace of him anywhere else—no Facebook or Snapchat or TikTok, and he’s not even in the Discord channel thathefirst mentioned to me. He must have some cryptic username keeping him anonymous—but there are so many Moonwalker/Sir Grayson–related names in the forum I don’t know where to start looking for him.

After school on Wednesday, I’m hanging out with the girls in a field near campus. It’s cold, and the weather switches between light drizzle and a loitering mist every few minutes, but there are some guys playing rugby there, including one Daphne is sort of talkingto, so we sit huddled on a picnic bench pretending not to look like we’re watching—or shivering.

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