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So Lauren is unflappable in the face of fatphobic comments I see.

Damn. Lauren sounds ten times less immature and insecure than April from that one statement alone. And Alex sounds like a genuinely flawed but decent guy whose meddling results in believable conflict.

I want to read THAT romance instead of this one.

"April was done hiding...it wasn't going to be comfortable."

Girl, it's a convention. If you don't want to be fat-shamed and judged, just stay at home and process your emotions like an adult.

"Marcus's abandonment of her"

Girl, he was TRYING to support you in his own way! Give me a break!

Frankly, I am not rooting for this couple to make it back together. Marcus deserves better in a girlfriend than someone who flies off the handle every time he misreads a social situation.

The whole BAWN thing is a no-win situation. Marcus only really had two options: come clean to April in the beginning or cut ties with her and the Lavineas server completely. Definitely not ask April out on a second date.

Plus, while APRIL might be loyal and try to keep Marcus's secrets, there is still the matter of paparazzi and obsessed fans. It's not like April's fan accounts are a secret or even secure. Any dedicated stalker fan/paparazzi could easily find April's accounts and through that, discover the truth.

That, and April could still slip up and reveal the truth by accident.

April is right in that the way he went about the whole fanfic thing IS a massive violation of trust.

The thing is though, this is coming right on the heels of April getting over being unreasonably mad at Marcus for something he couldn't control.

And frankly, at this point, April comes off as downright toxic.

Normally, I would be okay with this being the third-act breakup point, if Ms. Dade hadn't made it a fucking PATTERN for April to get mad at Marcus's completely understandable slip-ups. Hadn't made it the chief conflict of the fucking book.

Marcus...I don't care how hot you think April is. You deserve a woman who is less insecure, who will not treat you like this. Of any size.

"He'd lied to her".

Geez louise, woman, we just got over the first bit of manufactured conflict over the dad misunderstanding.

And now you're blowing up at him over the fanfic identity thing, even though in the same paragraph you make it clear you understand the whole "Marcus would lose his whole career" thing.

so this “amazing” cosplay she’s made, is not even sewn and is held together w staples and double sided tape, AND she’s unwilling to learn how to use a sewing machine to make it better… gtfo of here