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Yeah I'm Late

Every time I came in today to post today's chapter, something came up to pull me away. But it's up now:

"Any Friend of Jenny's ..."  (public)
"Any Friend of Jenny's ..."  (interactive)

When I said yesterday that I didn't know where it was going, I was perfectly serious. I had no idea. I knew Will was going to go off with Jenny, and that there'd be someone else along, but who?

The name "Joey" came to me, so that's who he met. For minigolf, I haphazardly decided. I also had to come up for some reason why we hadn't seen her before, either from Jenny's POV or not. Hence, the church/home-school angle.

Which suggested a socially awkward persona, which also fit in with the fact that I didn't know anything about her.

I sent her to the restroom so Will and Jenny could talk about her behind her back.

I totally didn't expect her to come running back out, shouting that there was a rat in the restroom.

What happens after that is a spoiler.

I really don't know how I feel about her, and I'm unsure whether to continue with her or not, because I don't know how the readers are going to feel about her. I don't want to run a poll, but I do want to see if there's any reaction, privately or publicly, before continuing this line.

So I think tomorrow you're likely to get a one-off somewhere else in BoM.