Holloway

Chapter 63: Gravity’s Hangover drops tonight at 9PM.
          
          This one doesn’t rush you. It pulls you under.
          
          No big declarations. No clean lines between want and harm. Just momentum—how nights blur, how “yes” starts to feel automatic, how choosing something and letting it happen can start to look the same if you’re tired enough.
          
          If you’ve ever watched a character make a decision you wish they’d stop making—and understood exactly why they didn’t—this chapter is for you.
          
          Read it when you can sit with it.
          Read it when you won’t skim.
          Read it knowing it’s supposed to feel uncomfortable.
          
           9PM EST
           Chapter 63: Gravity’s Hangover

Chapter 62: Blackout Logic
          drops tonight at 9PM.
          
          Some nights don’t end —
          they just get explained away.
          
          This chapter is about the stories we tell ourselves when the truth won’t sit still.
          About choosing not to remember.
          About going back, just to make it make sense.
          
          Read when you’re ready.
           9PM.

30 minutes.
          
          Tonight’s chapter is a quiet one.
          No chaos. No big reveal.
          Just the kind of secret that changes a girl whether anyone knows about it or not.
          
          Ch 61: The Secret She Survived
          is about what happens when you handle something alone—and the way it hardens you afterward.
          
          Read it slowly.
          This one doesn’t ask for attention.
          It stays with you.
          
          ️ Live in 30 minutes.

Ch 60 drops tonight at 9PM EST.
          The Summer We Couldn’t Quit.
          
          This chapter is about the things you go back to even when you know better.
          About “Text me.” meaning more than it should.
          About summer ending without asking permission.
          
          If you’ve ever let something fade instead of breaking it off…
          If you’ve ever pretended it didn’t hurt…
          Be here at 9.
          
           Tonight. Ch 60.

 12 Days of Christmas — PWYC edition 
          
          From tonight until Christmas, you’re getting one chapter every night.
          No breaks. No filler. Just the story moving forward the way it’s meant to.
          
          Think of it as a countdown —
          twelve nights, twelve chapters,
          each one a little closer to the end of this part of Nora’s story.
          
          If you’re reading along in real time, now’s the moment.
          If you’ve been waiting to catch up… this is your sign.
          
           New chapter every night.
           Until Christmas.

⭐ PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY — READER STATS DROP
          
          (aka: I finally looked at the analytics)
          
          I’ve been deep-diving my Wattpad stats, and honestly?
          You guys are WILD in the best possible way.
          Here’s what I learned:
          
           WHO YOU ARE
          
          75% women
          
          Age breakdown:
          75% ages 25–35
          25% over 45
          
          Which means this book is accidentally turning into a club for:
          ✨ women who survived a messy coming-of-age
          ✨ women who love morally gray romance
          ✨ women who love quiet devastation
          ✨ women who remember their own Jesse
          
          Honestly? Elite demographic.
          
           YOUR FAVORITE CHAPTERS (BY COMPLETION RATE)
          
          These chapters have 100% completion, meaning literally every single person who started them finished them:
          
          Ch 48 — The Night After Forever
          
          Ch 52 — The Fallout
          
          Ch 54 — Between Two Worlds
          
          Ch 56 — The Gravity Between
          
          Ch 57 — The Pull
          
          Translation:
          You thrive on psychological unraveling, aftermath scenes, Nora spiraling, Jesse being Jesse, and chapters that emotionally bruise you. Same.
          
           MOST VOTED CHAPTERS
          
          These chapters got the loudest, most unhinged reactions:
          
          Ch 22 — The Ghost Beside Us
          
          Ch 38 — The Fuse
          
          One is Henry giving her something she’s never had before.
          The other is Jesse blowing up her entire life in one night.
          You’re predictable and I adore you.
          
           WHAT THIS TELLS ME
          
          You’re here for:
          
          morally messy romance
          
          trauma-informed storytelling
          
          slow-burn emotional destruction
          
          sister dynamics
          
          addiction, aftermath, and consequences
          
          the boy who will ruin you
          
          and the boy who won’t
          
          Basically:
          You’re reading Pretty When You Cry the way it was meant to be read — like a wound you keep pressing.
          
          ❤️ THANK YOU
          
          This book started as a tiny idea and somehow found a global, wildly loyal, emotionally perceptive audience.
          I’m so grateful you’re here, screaming with me in the comments.
          
          Tell me your favorite chapter below 
          I’m genuinely curious which one hit you hardest.

i write about the girls we were and the ones we survived becoming.
          if you’re into:
          • messy first love
          • consequences we don’t talk about
          • nostalgia that cuts a little
          • characters who feel too real
          then you’re in the right place.
          
          comment your sign so i know who i’m writing to ✨

CHAPTER 58: Closing Time is LIVE.
          
          The restaurant is loud.
          The grease is hot.
          The tips are terrible.
          
          And then Jesse walks in.
          
          A hand brushing hers.
          A ride she shouldn’t take.
          A night she swore she wouldn’t repeat.
          
          August heat.
          Cicadas humming.
          A car hood.
          A choice she makes again and again.
          
          The high hits first.
          The hollow follows.
          
          Read it now.

CH 58: Closing Time drops tomorrow at 9PM.
          
          August heat.
          Bad decisions.
          A diner booth, a cigarette glow, a car ride that doesn’t go where it should.
          And a night by the reservoir Nora swears she won’t fall into again…
          until she does.
          
          Get ready.
          This one leaves a mark.

 CHAPTER DROP ALERT: Ch 55 — Breadcrumbs is LIVE
          
          This one… y’all.
          It’s messy, it’s magnetic, it’s every terrible decision wrapped in frost and cigarette smoke. Nora falls back into old gravity, old habits, old ghosts — and just when she thinks she’s steady, Jesse shows up like a bruise she forgot she had.
          
          You’re getting Mark at his most intoxicating, Nora at her most vulnerable, and Jesse at his softest, most devastating. It’s a long chapter, and it needed to be long — because this is where everything starts tightening around her.
          
          And sorry for the long one, I made some last-minute changes and literally finished at 8:59, so I didn’t have time to split it better before publishing. 
          
          But honestly?
          It feels right as one breathless spiral.
          
          Go read it. Come scream at me. Let’s discuss the ghost of Jesse Ferguson and the gravity of Mark Kowalski.
          
          Ch 55: Breadcrumbs — now live.