#meanwhile cole that's not how you made up to someone whose girlfriend you kissed (on purpose or not)

[ryoryeonggu]

One of the conflict between Alex and Jackie at the beginning is that Alex should have told Jackie about Paige, and it's understandable that Jackie felt confused and doubt about their relationship after knowing that. But that fact alone should cancel the agrument about "Alex always tried to make Cole look bad so he could look better" or "Alex wanted Jackie only to compete with Cole" or whatever (even though the second argument already makes no sense as if we didn't see Alex already fell in love with Jackie at the first sight, and has been looking after her and trying to make her happy since then).

Because if Alex truly only acted on the "nice guy syndrome", it would have worked well on his benefit if he'd told Jackie about Paige and Cole kissing his girlfriend. Now it will definitely make him even more of a good guy and Cole a major big asshole to Jackie, and it's even without lying. What would win a girl better than a sob story about a girl who he did nothing but be good for, breaking his heart? Like he could have whined on detailed about the betrayal, how it affects him, and made it everyone's problems. Instead he avoided talking about it until he had to assure Jackie what he felt about her is real and he no longer had feeling for his ex, he ignored Paige just as much as he walked away from Cole (until the asshole of his brother had to get into his personal space to provoke him and mock him).

Not to mention while calling Cole fcked up doings he also held himself accountable. He always apologized when he did something wrong, he refered to his wrong actions with "there's no excuse" and not even tried to justify himself about punching Cole when he had reasons to do so. He's not perfect, he has flaws, he fcked up too but he tried his best.

#if it had been all about proving himself to cole. he could've stayed tried to compete for jackie's attention. #but he walked away when cole was there looking genuinely uncomfortable #alex kissed jackie in front of cole ONCE and they already threw assumptions #maybe jackie made him so happy that he overcame his anxiousness and toleraced cole's presence? #maybe showing his love in public is his love language? #he did it with his friend being fed up in the background too lmao biggest golden retriever energy #meanwhile cole that's not how you made up to someone whose girlfriend you kissed (on purpose or not) #you didn't have to come to their table to make fun of their game their hobby #you didn't have to bump into them to say mean things then surpise pikachu face when you got punched in the face #leave him and his gf alone wtf is wrong with you #alex walter #jackie howard #cole walter #my life with the walter boys