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Chapter Summary:
After a long, tiring day of work, Jarsie comes home in a foul mood. Pop makes it her mission to cheer the upset snake up.

Story Synopsis:
Reti Calex is a college freshman living in Turtle Canyon, a small desert town in the middle of nowhere. All she wants to do is get through each day and spend some time with her few friends, but schizophrenia looms over her life and clouds her head. At school, she tries to hide her disorder from her new classmates to avoid ostracization. However, when she falls in love and refuses to tell her crush about the things that haunt her, her life and sanity begin to unravel...

took me an extra half a month, but chapter 3 is finally here! it's even shorter than chapter 2, though, but i couldn't reasonably stretch it out more than this i didn't feel like. this chapter was inspired by the 🔗 noah kahan song of the same name. i've been trying to make this chapter happen for like, almost a year now lmao