My Treat (5/15/15)

[SAGG]

Watch out, Candi! It's a slippery slope!

[Onijin]

NO, CANDI, DON'T DO IT.

[Weltall84]

Hmmm, while her accepting his request is a head-scratcher, we can hope when she sees him; she makes it clear she's not in the mood for his usual crap and it just better be him explaining himself and the offered food. Anything else she walks out.


I gotta say...he's pretty damn eager to hang out with her... makes me wonder what's been going on? Is Alex just....desperate and lonely or is he dumb enough to think he can woo her again? Despite being told to his face it's not happening, I wouldn't put it past him to try.

[pixiewolfe]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO................

I hope she will walk away or Chris interrupts the lunch somehow.
Another tennis ball to the head perhaps?

[PaulJones202718]

Some things have to be done face to face. After all, there ain't no God-damned app for kneeing him in the groin when he makes the "I've been so lonely without you/please endure more of my weak bullshit while I ignore your needs because I'm the man" speech everyone sees coming.

[UnstoppableTaboo]

Hmmm, while her accepting his request is a head-scratcher, we can hope when she sees him; she makes it clear she's not in the mood for his usual crap and it just better be him explaining himself and the offered food. Anything else she walks out.


I gotta say...he's pretty damn eager to hang out with her... makes me wonder what's been going on? Is Alex just....desperate and lonely or is he dumb enough to think he can woo her again? Despite being told to his face it's not happening, I wouldn't put it past him to try.

I think Alex still believes what he told Candi when they broke up: that the two of them are family, and that that will never change. Even though Candi realized that she had to move on (and it was a hard thing for her to do), Alex has remained under the presumption that he can have his cake and eat it too.

I will admit that it's not the easiest thing to do to completely cut off contact with another person when both your families are entangled like the way Candi and Alex's are. Candi is being more than benevolent in giving Alex this lunch (although, honestly, we all knew she would), but it's not going to help his perception that he and Candi are "family" even though he broke things off.

[Triple J]

Come on, Candi... just tell his stupid ass what you want to tell him, get the free food, and leave. Fast and simple.

[cursormortis]

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a valid reason he's not calling Abuela. Like she's bugging him about something or other and just won't drop it.

[highdeprogrammer]

No! Candy, that way lies madness.

[clif]

Candi! <<Facepalm>>

Well at least she gets a free meal out of it.

[Rheinhard]

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a valid reason he's not calling Abuela. Like she's bugging him about something or other and just won't drop it.

Given the change in Alex's appearance, his mysterious demeanor, and unwillingness to talk to Abuela who literally told him that he should be an alpha male, "fucking girls and moving on", I have come up with an alternate, right-angles to reality hypothesis consistent with Alex's behavior.

In the intervening time since he was apparently lousy in bed with Katia, Alex has discovered that he is bisexual (at the least) and currently has a boyfriend on the down low.

[Sylvanaerie]

Well, at least she will get a free meal from this and maybe talking to Candi will help Alex enough to where he can discuss it with Abuela and with any luck she'll leave Candi out of it beyond this one favor. Maybe talking face to face will be good for them considering the last conversation was him whining about Linda to her and Candi telling him to go soak his head.

Of course, considering this chapter has some weird interactions between characters (Jon and Jess' hook up, Katia and Linda/Thad) I hope this isn't some creepy interlude where she goes to talk to him, and after some weirdness, the next strip shows the two of them together in his room the next morning. God I hope not.

Maybe Alex has determined the best way to save the human race is to swear off all women, removing himself from the shallow end of the gene pool he's been swimming in, and move to Tibet to contemplate his navel and live a life of abstinence. He's meeting Candi to tell her where to forward his mail.

[Attalus]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO................

I hope she will walk away or Chris interrupts the lunch somehow.
Another tennis ball to the head perhaps?

Me three. Candi, what are you thinking?

[Lelobebo]

Eh, Candi's probably thinking practically. If she doesn't find out whats going on or convince Alex to contact Abuela himself, Abuela's going to keep nagging Candi about doing wifely duties like cooking him meals and shrugging it off when he's cheating on her. My guess is the next panel will be Alex going "HIIII CANDI <3 I MISS U" and her doing a face while going "Sit down, shut up, I want 12 hamburgers, you're gonna call grandma or I'm going to punch you"

With her saying "Your treat?" she's setting the terms of it - I don't think she's going to be suckered into metaphorically cradling big ol' baby Alex at all. Who knows, maybe this will push her to also take a relationship with Chris practically too, if it comes to it.

[BenjaminT]

Eh, Candi's probably thinking practically. If she doesn't find out whats going on or convince Alex to contact Abuela himself, Abuela's going to keep nagging Candi about doing wifely duties like cooking him meals and shrugging it off when he's cheating on her. My guess is the next panel will be Alex going "HIIII CANDI <3 I MISS U" and her doing a face while going "Sit down, shut up, I want 12 hamburgers, you're gonna call grandma or I'm going to punch you"

With her saying "Your treat?" she's setting the terms of it - I don't think she's going to be suckered into metaphorically cradling big ol' baby Alex at all. Who knows, maybe this will push her to also take a relationship with Chris practically too, if it comes to it.

I like that idea and think it's definitely possible. I agree that at this point this is about getting mom and Abuela off her back more than any concern for him. I really doubt he's going to use this as a way to try to get back together again. I also don't think there's anyway in hell she'd go for it even if he tried. That said, I'll admit to being a little worried now that when she hears out his reasoning she'll have some sympathy for his situation. Not that she'd feel bad for him and take care of him but simply, she'd understand where he's coming from and may not disagree with him keeping some distance from Abuela for a bit. I'm hoping she doesn't in any way condone his actions but there's a small glimmer of believing it might go that way.

Abuela is one person I think she can understand even Alex not wanting to deal with at some point. I hope at the very least she convinces him to call her mom and explain even if he feels he can't tell Abuela yet.