I've seen a lot of Krusie(lle) fans despairmaxxing after seeing this because they interpret this line as, "Susie now sees the lake thing as a romantic thing, and her saying this implies that she doesn't want to take her relationship with Kris there."
Well, what if I told y'all that this does nothing to refute the possibility that Susie will reciprocate Kris's feelings, but it may actually be really good evidence that she might end up doing so!
It's easy to take this at face value and assume that Susie doesn't want to have with Kris what she now has with Noelle. But if you look at the finer details, you'll realize that's not quite the case, because you can learn a lot about how she really feels, not just from what she says, but also HOW she says it and also HOW SHE DOES NOT SAY IT.
If you pay close attention, you'll notice that she corrects herself at the start with, "We... I mean," and that she finishes the sentence by asking herself/Kris, "right?" It may not seem like much, but these two little details matter a whole lot because it shows that SHE'S NOT ACTUALLY SURE OF HERSELF when she tells Kris they don't need to go to the lake together!!! In other words, she may, deep down, actually love to go to the lake with them!!!!!
And this is not the only hint that how she sees her relationship with Kris has changed, because in Snowgrave of all places, she tells Kris this after talking about the Festival King and Queen (and not how she ACTUALLY BLUSHES when she speaks the second line):
So with that in mind, has she not told Kris she wants to be an item with them like she is with Noelle because she really wants to have that kind of relationship with Kris OR PERHAPS BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T THINK KRIS WANTS TO HAVE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP AND THAT THEY WOULD BE WEIRDED OUT BY IT?!
And what's also interesting is that SHE DOESN'T REFER TO KRIS AS A FRIEND (OR HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM AS A FRIENDSHIP) ONCE IN THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER. And that's a huge deal because she was totally fine with calling Kris a friend in the previous Chapter! And yet, she doesn't do so at all in Chapter 5, and it just so happens to be RIGHT AFTER SHE EMBRACES HER ROMANTIC FEELINGS FOR NOELLE!
Gee, it's almost as if her newfound understanding of love and relationships, thanks to her blossoming romance with Noelle, has changed her perspective on her bond with Kris and on what she wants their relationship to be!
So yeah, I guess you can say that when the Suselle domino fell over it ended up hitting the Krusie domino lol.
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