Chapter Seventeen Supply and Demand, Baybee
hey
you seemed really spiky tonight
are you okay?????
I’m fine.
literally the first thing i say when im not at all fine is IM FINE
Okay, I’m not.
That was a whole lot, Emerson.
im sorry!!!!!! i get carried away
We could have talked about that beforehand.
Or at all.
okay yes sorry it was a dingus move
but people are so excited!!!!
and you know how i get when people are excited!!!!
go fast all the time always!!!!
and i really think youll make a great zine!!!!
I don’t want to make one.
I don’t like writing.
i remember when you used to!!!
you were great!!!!!
I wish literally no one remembered.
Humiliating.
we must have been reading different things???
because i loved it????
i wish you hadnt stopped.
You were the only one, probably.
UNTRUE!!!!
nylan and parker were talking about your last short story the other day!!!!
You were talking about me?
IN A GOOD WAY I SWEAR
Ugh.
Okay.
Can I tell you a secret?
duh
i love them
theyre safe with me
A parent complained.
About me.
Because I wrote a story with a fat they/them main character in that fall issue from sophomore year.
And she worried it would “make her kid gay” and “glorify obesity” or whatever.
WHAT NO
DISRESPECTFULLY FUCK THAT PERSON
WHO IS IT
I WILL FIGHT THEM!!!!!
“ConcernedMom1876@”
At least that’s what the anonymous e-mail was from.
I read it in the Collage inbox.
I don’t think I was supposed to know.
THATS SO FUCKED
IS THAT WHY MS MERRITT MADE YOU DO EDIITNG
*EDTING
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
No.
No, no, no.
That’s why I asked to move to editing.
Ms. Merritt was really awesome, and she made it very clear she supported me and would fight for me.
But just.
After you see someone calling you an abomination unto the lord or whatever.
It’s just really hard to want to do that ever again?
shit, mal
of course it would be hard
okay backing way off on zine pressure
there is none
Thanks.
literally the least i can do!!!!
also for the record you’re none of that bad shit
that person can get fucked
I know.
i wish i was with you right now
i would hug you so hard!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly? Me too.
I could use it.
okay hold your phone real close ok???
Uh, ok?
are you doing it???
It’s hard to text like this, Emerson.
just hold it close a second okay?
ok im hugging yout hrough my phone right mow
oh tod it is hard to tipe like this!!!!
Thank you.
I should have told you at the meeting tonight, but I kind of wigged out.
NO its super okay!!!!
i shouldn’t have put that pressure on you
i’m sorry!!!
You didn’t know.
Like, no one did, to be fair.
I’ve never even told Maddie.
thank you for telling me
and seriously if you want it i am going to give you the BIGGEST, GAYEST, FATTEST, MOST AMAZING HUG EVER next time i see you in real life
and i hope ConcernedMom1876 sees it
and her tiny baby closed mind EXPLODES
You are a menace.
but i’m your menace!!!
I’ll take that hug.
SOLD!!!!