@O8h7w: Sorry about the bamboozling nature of the chapter so far. I hope it will become clearer near the end. (If not, I’m in trouble story-wise ;D)
]]>@Kessy: She knows enough that it was the catalyst of the awkwardness between Karen & Mike, and she knew when Karen fesses up about the card. However beyond that she might not know anything about Emily nor the The Call that Mike was remembering.
]]>@O8h7w: They’re both pretty screwed up. A stint in call-center can do that to you 🙂
What I attempted (and failed) to imply is that Mike had put a good deal of trust in Karen believing her to be one of the few honest people in his current life. Right after ending the night with Emily, he didn’t expect his trust in Karen to be broken by her admitting that she withheld that she knew about Emily and kept her card from him in the hope that he wouldn’t be able to call her. (In the last chapter Karen also nearly hung up on Emily instead of forwarding her call to Mike).
Mike freaks out on this information, like he tends to, and a chance to grow their relationship is lost, resulting in more awkwardness that just eats at them for years….
If Karen had kept quiet about the card (at least for a while), things might have gone differently, thus Sam’s mission. Sam’s hope is that they will finally move on, maybe even get together, and then as happy people they will stop making her own life hell.
]]>@O8h7w: I’m following the Back to the Future logic with this, where things will change in real-time. Although strictly speaking the card itself and maybe even Sam should have disappeared entirely.
]]>@Delta: Damn…I had run a new-slogan competition of the comic that would have won it 😀
]]>@Kessy: It seem that way wouldn’t it….. (Cue ominous music)
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