Hi and welcome back!
I just posted chapter 3 and I'm not sure about it either, obviously. I tried to make some changes on it to make it simple, but I guess it became even more complicated. Ok, lemme mention some points you should probably know.
✓The conversations in italics that appear first sure parts of a moment, long after the story is finished. They're snippets that I include to make it a bit more mysterious. If ur wondering in who's pov they'll be, the order is: Zoe, Jay, Kai, Nina. It's gonna change among them so the next chapter is gonna be Nina's.
✓The ~~~ symbols are for time skips. It's easier to put them for me.
✓I know our MC STILL hasn't met Jay so it's gonna happen in the next chapter, but not too much.
✓I'm getting the silly idea of posting facts about my characters after updating the story.
✓Personally, I don't want to put author notes in the chapters, because that will disturb the flow. I'll post a full chapter for it if needed.
Thanks for reading this and if it's still not clear to you, I'll put some of my favourite stories with their writing style on my reading list and I'm sure it will help if you know this: my story is highly inspired by 13 Reasons Why and My Hero Academia so if you guys know them, it's gonna be a great bonus.
Til tomorrow, bye!