Andrew's getting hurt for attention was confirmed to be a genuine accident. He was just being clumsy.
The author confirmed on twt that he hurt himself genuinely on accident tho
imagine confirming that on twitter and not in the text of your story
I think it did tho? The next chapter where Andrew was gen clumsy and the friend was like “huh nevermind then” or sth like that idk after that chapter I let it marinate and didn’t rlly pay attention
I am being so genuine - the red herring is so hack they shouldn’t have bothered adding it if it wasn’t going anywhere. I was under the assumption that his friend was just trying to think the best of Luke’s boyfriend and ignoring a red flag because he wants Luke to be happy.
I really like this couple but there’s clearly so much left on the cutting room floor. Like, Andrew hurting himself for Luke’s attention just isn’t addressed? Andrew’s family never actually comes into the equation. What actually would the fallout have been if it came out that Andrew and Luke were together? Honestly, I feel like the story should’ve (authors health allowing) actually had that happen. If anything, the ensuing scandal could’ve been a jumping off point for Luke’s career, lol. That would’ve been an interesting point of conflict for the couple in and of itself. Luke being a queer actor could’ve been explored in a really interesting way as well but I do think the story is marred a bit being written by a person outside of American culture.
I think cutting the story off at the S1 finale and imagining the rest of the story would be better for me mentally, lmao.