If anything, my respect for the friend has gone way up in this chapter. She's an author with a merch store and has modest success... AND she's the one pushing the plot forward
Settle down, we can't have these reasonable actions taken in a romcom. We need at least another 60 chapters, 3 misunderstandings per heroine, a moving fake out, and a random 2nd cousin that's way too close to MC
What is the kid talking about? They're getting closer and closer seeing eye to eye. It's just that neither want to admit that they know what's going to happen