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Aggie tells Lisa about her kiss with Penny. At first she claims it "felt right," but when Lisa quips about her own attempt to (play-)kiss her friend the previous fall, Aggie breaks into hysterical laughter, compounded when Lisa suggests she considers Penny "safe" to kiss. When Aggie finally stops laughing, she admits she's "terrified," first because she doesn't know what the kiss makes her, orientation-wise, and second because she's unsure whether she responded to Penny's overture simply because she's her friend and "objectively" attractive. Lisa points out that what Aggie just said means she ''does'' find Penny desirable. Aggie then brings up her third fear, that if they start dating, Penny will try to make her over in her own image, and resent Aggie if she can't. Lisa doubts this would happen.

=== Tropes ===

* [[The Beard]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]], jokingly, by Fred. When asking Penny why she invited him to attend graduation with her, he says he doubts it's for that reason.

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: As in the previous arc, Sara can't bring herself to tell Daphne about Lucy, even, at first, when breaking up with her. When she finally gathers the nerve to do so, she's too late, as Daphne cuts her off with the accusation that the "other woman" is Penny and subsequently cuts short their conversation altogether.

* [[Double Entendre]]: Penny is particularly fond of this in the present chapter, to Aggie's discomfort.

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

** Charisma's response, quoted above, to Nick's wish that Aggie have a "drama-free" year. The comic won't in fact show her senior year, but her summer, at any rate, won't be lacking in it.

** When the question of obtaining a camera for Aggie's film arises, Lisa states, with uncharacteristic evasiveness, that her "dad, uh, has beer with somebody" willing to supply one. This lie as to her source for the camera foreshadows the reveal in "August" that it's {{spoiler|Stan's}}, and the subsequent {{spoiler|bitter fight}} it leads to.

* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Katy-Ann who, though increasingly frustrated with Jack's belief he's a bad influence on her, refuses to give up on him.

* [[I Just Write the Thing]]: Campbell originally intended for Jack and Katy-Ann to break up in the bus-boarding scene, whereupon the comic would explore the possibility of relationships between Jack and Brandi, and between Duane and Katy-Ann. However, Campbell said, Katy-Ann "rebelled," as it were, against that outcome during the scripting process, necessitating the rewriting not only of that scene but also of the basketball scene earlier in the chapter.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Jack has an erotic one featuring Brandi, complete with [[Flower Motifs|shoujo flowers]].

* [[Please Dump Me]]: [[Discussed Trope]]. Sara confesses that she nearly started a [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealous]] fight with Daphne, over her platonically kissing Fred, in order to precipitate their breakup, but backed off when she realized that would make her a [[Dirty Coward]].

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Daphne's "Fuck you" to Sara. Note, however, that this is the last instance of the trope in the comic. Already, several strips earlier, Penny drops the word "shit" in conversation quite casually, and subsequent chapters include somewhat more liberal use of profanity by Penny, Sara and Lisa, though never quite reaching [[Cluster F-Bomb]] level.

* [[Rounded Character]]: Fred, whom the comic had previously depicted as a [[Perpetual Smiler]] and [[Pet Homosexual]], with slight [[The Pollyanna|Pollyanna]] tendencies, here shows a more cynical and biting side, while retaining the compassion and concern for his friends shown in previous arcs. It's also revealed why he's still single: he has a fear of rejection.

* [[Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]], with bitter sarcasm, when Sara breaks up with Daphne.

* [[Super-Deformed]]: Although both Lagacé and Waltrip have made occasional use of chibis throughout the comic, [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=1156 this strip] is composed almost entirely of them.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Campbell has said that if Katy-Ann hadn't "rebelled" against his initial plan to have her say good-bye to Jack, then she would've ended up with Duane, and Jack with Brandi, for "at least the rest of high school." Beyond that, he says, he hadn't decided whether both of them would remain together by the time of {{spoiler|the [[Class Reunion]] in}} the final chapter, but probably would've kept one couple together and split up the other.

 

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