Jack_Patrick

If you've never experienced it before, true overwhelming joy can feel like pain. In this final chapter of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story, Miko frightens her parents with her joy, finds a new purpose for her life, and vows to never let herself be deceived again.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/615736445-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-14
          
          This is the end of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story. I've really enjoyed delving into Miko's side of the story and why she was the way she was in the 1st draft. (Though she may have come out a little more yandere in this one than I had planned.) For those precious few who have read it, I hope some of her actions in the first draft now make a little more sense.
          
          Taken together, Kokuhaku and Kabedon are really just Act 1 of Jack and Miko's story. Act 2 will be about the opposition they will have to face and the price they will have to pay if they choose to stay together. This revised and expanded version will also include more of the impact of their relationship on the people around them.
          
          Please stand by as I prepare Part 3. (Now, I just have to come up with a title for it!)

The larger the landslide, the longer it _seems_ to take for the great mass of stone to break free of the cliff and begin its downward plunge. And yet, in only seconds, it becomes an unstoppable force and crushes everything in its path.
          
          In Chapter 13 of Kabedon: Part2 of A Tanabata Story, Jack and Miko have barely begun to suspect the impact of Jack's public confession even as the shockwave ripples through the entire school. It's too late to hide it now.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/611953066-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-13

The climatic event has arrived. 
          
          In that still moment between the flash of light and the earth-shaking boom, the pieces of the world hang suspended. The unimaginable has happened and no one can guess where they will fall and what it will mean for everyone's future.
          
          In Chapter 12 of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story...
          
          Jack and Miko shock the entire school and, perhaps, shock themselves most of all.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/608583487-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-12
          
          Only two more chapters left where the pieces only start to fall.
          
          I hope you've been enjoying this re-write and expansion of the original story. I'd really love it--assuming any of my female readers are still left--if you could share your thoughts on this revelation of Miko's side of the story. 
          
          I felt Miko got shortchanged in the first draft, so I added an entire novella just to ensure her story was heard. There have been a number of changes here and there and I'm hoping I haven't gone too far with any of it. But mostly--not having ever been a teenage girl--I'm concerned that her story feels real. I know she's a special case, but hopefully, she's consistent, relatable, and understandable.
          
          As always, thank you for your support!

No plan survives first contact with the enemy--especially if the enemy is a cute boy and your best friend--the person you're trying to protect--has never even spoken to one before.
          
          In Chapter 11 of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story, the momentous meeting occurs between the school's idol and the barely tolerated outsider.
          
          Against her better judgment, Junko goads Miko into facing her fears and speaking to Jack herself... but then he appears to do the unthinkable.
          
          Available now at:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/604958920-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-11
          
          Thank you for supporting this story. It is very special to me which makes you very special to me. Please read, vote, share and above all, comment and tell me what you think of the new uncut version.

Junko holds out as long as she can, but there is no dissuading Miko once she has set her mind to something. Deciding to just get it over with so she can go back to life as normal, she endures the most humiliating situation she has faced in a long time, only to have Jack respond in an unexpected way. 
          
          Perhaps he's not the simple-minded, ill-mannered foreigner she had thought him to be. Whatever he is, it looks like she's going to be stuck with him in her life now.
          
          Chapter 10 of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story is available now.
          https://www.wattpad.com/598432946-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-10

Caring for a teenage girl can be a bigger challenge than one might think.
          
          When the girl who succeeds at everything fails to meet Junko's challenge, Junko first finds it amusing. But then Miko's growing desperation and need to know Jack's feelings strains Junko's patience past their limits.
          
          Paralyzed by anxiety, Miko begins to fall apart and Junko is left with the responsibility of fixing the situation she had inadvertently created. Unfortunately, this could well involve something humiliating.
          
          Junko may have just gone too far this time.
          
          Chapter 9 of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story is available now.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/598381530-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-9
          
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          Just a quick little something before the holiday hits here in the States. The next chapter is the showdown between Junko and the gaijin. The edit is pretty much finished so expect it soon.

Miko's obsession with the question as to whether Jack likes her grows. Junko, growing exasperated with Miko, urges her to ask him herself. Campaigning for her election, the opportunity presents itself, but the girl who is not afraid of anything finds herself terrified of the answer. 
          
          Yes or no, his reply will end the life she has known.
          
          Chapter 8 of Kabedon, Part 2 of A Tanabata Story is available now.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/596252764-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-8

The boys continue their cheerful harassment, rumors about Miko begin to circulate, and Miko begins to fear she has inadvertently killed any chance for friends--even as they try to help her. Without realizing it, she's begun to focus on Jack while Junko promises to do her best to drive him and his friends away.
          
          Chapter 7 of Kabedon: Part 2 of a Tanabata Story is now available. You can find it here.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/594541147-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-7

It's funny how one can walk past something every day and not notice it. But the moment it is called to your attention, you suddenly see it everywhere.
          
          In Chapter 6 of Kabedon: Part 2 of A Tanabata Story, Junko begins to regret having teased Miko by pointing out Jack's interest in her. It quickly becomes clear that what began as a mild curiosity has already begun to grow into an obsession.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/591658478-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-6
          
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Chapter 5 of Kabedon: A Tanabata Story is now published.
          
          At last, you can get Miko's side of that fateful encounter in the park. An encounter that will ultimately cause her to gleefully destroy her entire life-time's work.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/588880079-kabedon-part-2-of-a-tanabata-story-chapter-5