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THIRTEEN

Turns out, functional Gramps is kind of a hard-ass.

November blends into December, and I am still grounded.

“You’re always on that phone, and you couldn’t answer one of my three calls?” Gramps had said to me when I got home.

“It’s called silent mode?” I tried to joke.

Gramps does not appreciate sass unless he’s the one giving it.

I was sentenced to two antisocial weeks, too shocked he was so upset to argue further. If this had happened when we first arrived, I don’t even think he would’ve noticed I was missing. I got too used to the freedom, to not expecting anyone to account for me.

There are still five days left until I’m free. Gramps didn’t confiscate my phone or laptop, though, thank God. Halle and Kels’s simultaneous absence would have been a ridiculous coincidence.

In some ways, the sentence has recalibrated me. Without the ability to spend my free time with Le Crew, I’m able to focus on the thing that matters most: One True Pastry.

I send my first-ever pitch rejection.

I also block my first troll.

My following ironically has plateaued, thanks to theFireflies and Youtrailer drop. The film is back in the YA Twitter spotlight—and most of my movie tie-in content has gone live. Posts I scheduledmonths ago—an interview with the cast before production started, Twitter chats encouraging my followers to reread the book, a throwback post boosting my original, spoiler-free reviews. It has been extremely divisive with my followers.

I wish I could tell Twitter I’m not pro-Alanna—I’m pro-Grams.

But I can’t.

And OTP isn’t the only thing I’ve been neglecting.

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