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Chapter 22 - why is he here?!!

Jay jays pov:

I sigh,

It's time to go to kiko, I got changed , but I just wore a baggy fit

Outfit in comments

It wasn't exactly baggy but it's cute

Then finally that bating Kumag (trouble maker aka ci-n) woke up.

Ci-n finally stopped snoring as he woek up, nad fell of the bed, I didn't even bother to help him because he bet kiko mercilessly did her ever help kiko? No , so why should I?

Then he groaned and asked me

Jayyy, pls help me!

He asked like he was drowning in water,

No , why tf should I help u , did u ever help kiko? U didn't! So why the heck should I? Get up urself,brat

He whined like a kid who lost his candy and got up reluctantly, then I sat on my bed and worked on my laptop, ok....I know keifers bday is far away but I wanna get his gift prepared rn,I booked an appointment at a very famous store , its a secret.

Then I did an entrench test for harvard,standford,Oxford university,and MIT. Unfortunately I have to and don't worry I also have back ups if I don't wanna go international, I applied for Hamilton university too since felix that brat is also going there but im sure every university I going accept me ,

I'll just make sure my grades r acceptable

In math in the last exam I got:99

English:100

Taglog:10

Science:98

Social science:99

Economics:100

Bussiness:100

Computer:100

EsP:100

But I need to focus on taglog I got 10 out of 100. I don't even know taglog the bit of taglog I speak is from p-dramas, I only know how to speak taglog I don't know how to write or read . I speak taglog all the time because my toxic grandpa hates it when I speak taglog , so I keep irritating him

But english is my home

Then I prepared my presentation in the amin meeting hall for e.v corp

The presentation:

Good morning.

Today, I intend to address a proposition that many of you may find reprehensible before I have even completed my first sentence.

That is precisely why I have chosen it.

The subject before us is not comfortable.

It is not elegant.

It is not politically convenient.

And it certainly is not the sort of proposition that can be discussed without confronting the most fundamental questions concerning justice, morality, bodily autonomy, and the limits of human authority.

The proposition is this:

Should a person convicted of an exceptionally grave sexual offence ever become eligible for an experimental pharmacological intervention designed to impose a severe consequence upon them?

At first glance, the answer may appear obvious.

Perhaps some of you are already thinking that a person who has deliberately violated another human being forfeits the privilege of compassion.

Perhaps you believe that society spends too much time debating the rights of perpetrators and too little time acknowledging the permanent consequences suffered by victims.

Perhaps you believe that certain crimes are so abhorrent that conventional punishment becomes almost insulting in its inadequacy.

I understand that sentiment.

But understanding a sentiment is not the same as permitting it to govern public policy.

That distinction is the foundation of my argument.

Because if we are going to discuss an experimental substance, an unprecedented intervention, or any mechanism capable of producing profound consequences within the human body, we must first determine what precisely we are attempting to accomplish.

Justice?

Retribution?

Deterrence?

Rehabilitation?

Public safety?

Or revenge?

Those words are frequently treated as interchangeable.

They are not.

Justice seeks proportion.

Deterrence seeks prevention.

Rehabilitation seeks transformation.

Public safety seeks protection.

Revenge seeks suffering.

And if we cannot distinguish between these objectives, then we have no business placing something experimental before a human being and calling the result justice.

Let us therefore consider the most emotionally compelling argument first.

A convicted rapist has caused extraordinary harm.

The victim may experience consequences that persist for years.

The victim may lose a sense of security, trust, confidence, or control over their own life.

The perpetrator deliberately created that suffering.

So why should society concern itself with the perpetrator's rights?

Why should we protect the bodily autonomy of someone who disregarded another person's bodily autonomy so completely?

It is a powerful question.

But there is an even more important question beneath it.

What distinguishes a system of justice from the individual act of vengeance?

The answer must be principle.

If our principles disappear whenever we encounter someone we despise, then they were never principles at all.

They were preferences.

And a civilisation cannot construct a legitimate justice system upon preferences.

We cannot proclaim that bodily autonomy is inviolable and then quietly append an exception stating, "unless we consider the individual sufficiently monstrous."

We cannot declare that experimental medical interventions require rigorous ethical scrutiny and then abandon that scrutiny because the proposed recipient has committed an atrocious crime.

We cannot insist that punishment must remain proportionate and then permit suffering to become an objective in itself.

Because once suffering becomes the objective, the distinction between justice and vengeance begins to collapse.

And that is precisely where my proposal becomes more complicated.

I am not proposing that convicted offenders be rewarded with comfort.

I am not proposing that society disregard the magnitude of their crimes.

I am not proposing that victims be asked to forgive those who harmed them.

And I am certainly not suggesting that severe crimes should receive inadequate consequences.

I am asking whether we can construct consequences that are severe without becoming deliberately cruel.

That distinction matters.

A punishment can be stringent without being vindictive.

A sentence can be consequential without becoming an exercise in degradation.

A society can condemn an act absolutely while refusing to abandon its own standards in response to it.

That is the paradox we must confront.

If we respond to brutality by institutionalising brutality, have we defeated brutality?

Or have we merely given it a legal vocabulary?

Consider the hypothetical substance at the centre of this proposal.

Let us call it Aurethine.

The name is deliberately clinical.

It sounds precise.

Controlled.

Almost reassuring.

But names do not make substances ethical.

A laboratory designation does not transform an experimental compound into a legitimate punishment.

A scientific vocabulary can make an atrocious idea sound respectable if we are not careful.

That is why the question cannot simply be:

"Does Aurethine work?"

The first question must be:

"Should Aurethine exist as an instrument of punishment at all?"

The second must be:

"Who decides?"

The third:

"Under what authority?"

And the fourth:

"What prevents that authority from expanding beyond its original purpose?"

Because history has demonstrated something repeatedly.

Exceptional powers rarely remain exceptional forever.

A measure introduced for the "worst offenders" can eventually become a measure applied to less serious offenders.

A measure introduced under extraordinary circumstances can become ordinary procedure.

A mechanism created for one category of people can eventually acquire broader definitions.

And once a government possesses the authority to deliberately alter a person's body as punishment, the moral implications become considerably larger than the original crime.

Today, the category may be convicted rapists.

Tomorrow, who defines the category?

Who determines guilt?

Who determines eligibility?

What happens when evidence is later proven false?

What happens when a conviction is overturned?

What happens when the scientific assumptions underlying the intervention are discovered to be incorrect?

And perhaps most importantly—

What happens when the institution responsible for administering the punishment is itself corrupt?

These are not hypothetical concerns to be dismissed as pessimism.

They are the inevitable questions that arise whenever extraordinary power is placed in human hands.

Now, I know what some of you may say.

"You are overcomplicating this."

"You are giving criminals too many protections."

"They destroyed someone's life. Why should we care about their comfort?"

Because this is not about their comfort.

It is about our character.

The standard by which a civilisation should be judged is not how it treats the people it admires.

That is easy.

The true test is how it behaves when confronted with someone it considers utterly reprehensible.

If our principles survive even there, then perhaps they deserve to be called principles.

If they vanish the moment our anger becomes sufficiently intense, then we have constructed nothing more than conditional morality.

And conditional morality is dangerously convenient.

Now, let us return to the victim.

Any discussion of punishment that begins and ends with the offender is incomplete.

The victim must remain at the centre of the conversation.

Justice must recognise the magnitude of what occurred.

It must protect the public.

It must hold the offender accountable.

It must provide meaningful avenues for the victim to regain agency.

And it must communicate, without ambiguity, that sexual violence is not an inconvenience to be processed through bureaucracy.

It is a profound violation of another person's autonomy.

Therefore, if we reject harmful experimental punishment, we must not replace it with leniency.

We replace it with accountability.

There is a distinction.

An offender can face severe legal consequences without society becoming an instrument of physical experimentation.

We can impose restrictions.

We can impose lengthy sentences.

We can create rigorous monitoring systems where legally appropriate.

We can prevent repeat offending.

We can fund victim support.

We can improve investigative procedures.

We can strengthen evidence collection.

We can ensure that convictions are based upon competent investigation rather than institutional negligence.

And we can invest substantially more in preventing sexual violence before it occurs.

That is where our resources should demonstrate their greatest ambition.

Because if our objective is truly public safety, then punishment after the crime is only one component of the equation.

Prevention is superior to retaliation.

A victim spared is more valuable than a perpetrator punished.

That is not softness.

That is strategic thinking.

And strategic thinking is precisely what this institution claims to value.

There is another uncomfortable reality.

A punishment does not become morally superior simply because its recipient is guilty.

Guilt establishes responsibility.

It does not automatically establish that every conceivable method of punishment is permissible.

If guilt alone justified unlimited intervention, then there would be no meaningful boundary to punishment.

And without boundaries, justice becomes dependent upon the imagination of whoever possesses authority.

That should terrify us.

Not because criminals deserve unlimited sympathy.

But because ordinary citizens deserve protection from unlimited power.

The law must therefore possess a boundary that even hatred cannot cross.

Otherwise, the most dangerous person in the room is no longer necessarily the offender.

It may be the person holding the authority to decide what the offender deserves.

That is the philosophical heart of this presentation.

We are tempted to believe that morality becomes easier when the victim is innocent and the perpetrator is monstrous.

In reality, that is when morality becomes most difficult.

Anyone can defend human rights when the person in question is sympathetic.

The difficult question is whether those rights remain meaningful when the person is deeply unsympathetic.

If they do not, then they are not rights.

They are privileges granted by popularity.

And I refuse to build a justice system upon popularity.

Therefore, my recommendation is not to authorise Aurethine as a punitive substance.

My recommendation is to treat the very proposition as an ethical boundary test.

If the compound has legitimate medical applications, let qualified researchers investigate those applications under rigorous scientific and ethical oversight.

If it has no legitimate therapeutic purpose, we should not manufacture a medical justification merely because we desire a more sophisticated form of punishment.

If society wants stronger consequences for sexual offences, legislators should debate stronger lawful consequences.

If victims require greater support, institutions should provide it.

If investigative systems are inadequate, reform them.

If offenders remain dangerous, construct lawful mechanisms to protect the public.

But do not disguise vengeance as medicine.

Do not disguise cruelty as innovation.

And do not confuse the sophistication of a laboratory with the sophistication of an ethical argument.

Because an elegant instrument can still be used for an ugly purpose.

A sophisticated institution can still make primitive decisions.

And an advanced civilisation can still regress morally while progressing technologically.

That is the danger.

We possess the scientific capability to do things that previous generations could scarcely have imagined.

But capability does not constitute permission.

The fact that we can manipulate something does not establish that we should.

The fact that we can impose suffering with extraordinary precision does not make that suffering just.

The fact that an offender may be hated by almost everyone in this room does not grant us the authority to abandon the principles that govern everyone else.

Justice must be stronger than anger.

Law must be stronger than revenge.

And civilisation must be stronger than the crimes committed against it.

So, if the purpose of this meeting is to determine whether we should create an unprecedented pharmacological punishment for convicted sexual offenders, my answer is no.

Not because their crimes are insignificant.

Precisely because their crimes are significant.

Precisely because the consequences are profound.

Precisely because the victims deserve a justice system that is uncompromisingly serious without becoming morally indistinguishable from the violence it condemns.

Let us build a system that does not merely punish the guilty.

Let us build one that protects the innocent.

Let us construct institutions that are formidable without being cruel.

Let us pursue accountability without sacrificing principle.

Let us develop science without permitting science to become an instrument of vengeance.

And if we are ever tempted to say that a particular person is so reprehensible that the ordinary rules no longer apply, let us pause.

Because that sentence is not merely a statement about the offender.

It is a statement about ourselves.

It reveals whether our morality is conditional.

It reveals whether our principles are genuine.

And it reveals whether we believe justice exists to satisfy our anger or to establish order where anger would otherwise prevail.

I believe it must be the latter.

A justice system should not ask us to become less human in order to punish someone who behaved inhumanely.

It should demand that we become more disciplined.

More rational.

More principled.

More uncompromising in our pursuit of accountability.

Because the ultimate victory over brutality is not to become better at inflicting it.

It is to become incapable of needing it.

That is the standard I propose.

Not mercy without accountability.

Not punishment without restraint.

But justice without hypocrisy.

Thank you.

Now doubts or questions may be asked

Then I kinda prepared my own question and answers just in case

They r:

QUESTION 1: "Are you seriously suggesting that convicted rapists deserve consideration after what they have done?"

JAY JAY:

"No. I am suggesting that justice deserves consideration.

There is a distinction between saying that an offender deserves sympathy and saying that the institution responsible for punishing that offender must remain governed by principle.

I have no interest in diminishing the suffering of victims, nor in romanticising the actions of perpetrators. Their crimes warrant serious consequences.

But if we determine punishment according to how much we despise the individual receiving it, then we have surrendered justice to emotion.

I am not asking this room to care about the comfort of an offender.

I am asking this room to care about the integrity of the system that sentences them."

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QUESTION 2: "What happens if an experimental substance causes permanent harm?"

JAY JAY:

"Then the question ceases to be whether the punishment was severe enough and becomes whether we knowingly authorised irreversible harm without sufficient ethical justification.

An experimental medical intervention carries uncertainty by definition.

That uncertainty may be acceptable in carefully regulated therapeutic research where informed consent, scientific necessity, and independent oversight are present.

It becomes an entirely different proposition when the purpose is punitive.

The law may deprive an offender of liberty.

That does not mean it acquires unlimited authority over their body.

If we cannot guarantee that an intervention is ethically defensible, we have no moral justification for imposing it merely because the recipient is unpopular."

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QUESTION 3: "Where do you draw the line between justice and revenge?"

JAY JAY:

"Justice asks what consequence is proportionate, lawful, and necessary.

Revenge asks what suffering would feel satisfying.

Those objectives may occasionally resemble one another from a distance, but philosophically they are opposites.

Justice has boundaries.

Revenge has appetite.

Justice can be scrutinised.

Revenge merely demands gratification.

The moment our objective becomes making someone suffer because we believe they deserve suffering, rather than imposing a lawful consequence for a legitimate societal purpose, we have crossed the line."

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QUESTION 4: "What if the victim demands the harshest possible punishment?"

JAY JAY:

"Then we listen.

We listen without interruption, without judgement, and without diminishing the legitimacy of their anger.

But listening to a victim does not mean transferring the entire authority of the justice system into the hands of an understandably traumatised individual.

A victim deserves to be heard.

A victim deserves justice.

A victim deserves protection.

But no individual should be placed in the position of determining the boundaries of punishment solely because they were harmed.

That responsibility belongs to a system capable of balancing accountability with principle.

Otherwise, justice becomes personal retaliation wearing institutional clothing."

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QUESTION 5: "Why should taxpayers fund protections for someone who violated another person's rights?"

JAY JAY:

"Because public institutions are not charitable organisations.

They do not exist merely to reward virtuous citizens.

They exist to maintain a functioning society.

When the state imprisons an offender, it assumes responsibility for that person.

That responsibility is not an endorsement of the offender.

It is a consequence of the authority the state itself has exercised.

If we want the state to possess the power to imprison people, then we must also demand that the state exercise that power responsibly.

Otherwise, we are not creating justice.

We are creating institutionalised neglect."

---

QUESTION 6: "What happens if the offender is later proven innocent?"

JAY JAY:

"That question alone should make us extremely cautious about irreversible punishment.

A prison sentence can, in principle, be ended.

A conviction can be overturned.

A person can be released.

But certain consequences cannot simply be undone because a court eventually discovered that the original judgement was wrong.

Human institutions are fallible.

Investigators are fallible.

Witnesses are fallible.

Judges are fallible.

Evidence can be misunderstood.

Therefore, any punishment whose consequences cannot meaningfully be reversed must be subjected to an extraordinarily high ethical threshold.

If we cannot satisfy that threshold, we should not cross it."

---

QUESTION 7: "Isn't refusing this punishment simply weakness disguised as morality?"

JAY JAY:

"No.

Restraint is not weakness.

Anyone can exercise power.

The more difficult achievement is possessing power and refusing to misuse it.

A system that can retaliate but chooses proportionality is demonstrating control.

A system that cannot distinguish between punishment and cruelty is demonstrating insecurity.

Strength is not measured by the severity of suffering we can inflict.

It is measured by the discipline with which we govern ourselves."

---

QUESTION 8: "What would you say to a victim who believes your proposal is too lenient?"

JAY JAY:

"I would not tell them that they are wrong to feel that way.

I would not tell them to forgive.

I would not tell them that their anger is excessive.

And I certainly would not ask them to minimise what happened.

I would tell them that their suffering deserves recognition and that justice must take their safety seriously.

But I would also tell them something difficult:

Your pain should not have to become another person's suffering in order for society to acknowledge that your pain mattered.

We should be capable of condemning what happened without reproducing the same logic of harm.

The objective should be to restore your security and dignity—not merely to create another victim."

---

QUESTION 9: "If the substance could prevent future offences, wouldn't refusing to use it be irresponsible?"

JAY JAY:

"Only if we have established, beyond reasonable doubt and through legitimate scientific evidence, that it is genuinely necessary, effective, and ethically permissible.

Potential benefit does not erase ethical boundaries.

Otherwise, almost any dangerous intervention could be justified by claiming that it might prevent something worse.

That principle is far too broad.

We must distinguish between evidence and speculation.

If an intervention has legitimate therapeutic or preventive potential, then it should be studied through appropriate scientific and ethical processes.

But punishment cannot become a convenient laboratory simply because society fears what an offender might do in the future."

---

QUESTION 10: "Who gets to decide which offenders qualify?"

JAY JAY:

"That is precisely the problem.

The moment we establish a category of people who can be subjected to an extraordinary intervention, someone must define that category.

And definitions have consequences.

What constitutes sufficient evidence?

Who evaluates it?

What happens when jurisdictions disagree?

What happens when political pressure influences the process?

What safeguards prevent expansion?

The more extraordinary the punishment, the more extraordinary the safeguards must be.

If those safeguards cannot be guaranteed, the proposal is structurally unsound."

---

QUESTION 11: "What if public opinion overwhelmingly supports the proposal?"

JAY JAY:

"Public opinion deserves to be heard.

It does not deserve to become a substitute for ethics.

Majorities can demand sensible reforms.

They can also demand unjust ones.

The history of civilisation is filled with examples of societies becoming convinced that something was acceptable simply because enough people believed it.

Popularity establishes prevalence.

It does not establish morality.

If every fundamental right disappeared whenever public anger reached sufficient intensity, then rights would not be rights at all.

They would be temporary permissions."

---

QUESTION 12: "And if the law permits it, why should morality stand in its way?"

JAY JAY:

"Because legality and morality are not synonymous.

The law establishes what the state permits.

Morality asks what the state ought to permit.

Those questions overlap frequently.

They do not always produce identical answers.

If legality were automatically proof of morality, there would never have been any reason to reform unjust laws.

Law evolves because societies eventually recognise that something once permitted should no longer be permitted.

Therefore, legality is the beginning of the conversation.

It is not the conclusion."

---

QUESTION 13: "You seem remarkably concerned with the rights of offenders. Where are the rights of victims in your proposal?"

JAY JAY:

"Everywhere.

The right to safety.

The right to dignity.

The right to be believed when evidence supports their account.

The right to competent investigation.

The right to meaningful legal representation.

The right to support.

The right to see serious crimes treated seriously.

And the right not to have their suffering reduced to a statistic.

But I refuse to create a false dichotomy in which protecting victims requires abandoning every principle that protects everyone else.

Victims deserve better than that.

They deserve a justice system capable of protecting them without sacrificing its own legitimacy."

---

QUESTION 14: "Then what punishment do you believe these offenders deserve?"

JAY JAY:

"Punishment should be determined by law, evidence, proportionality, and the circumstances of the offence.

I am not standing here to propose a particular sentence.

I am standing here to establish a boundary.

Accountability is necessary.

Cruelty is not.

A serious crime should have serious consequences.

But the seriousness of the crime cannot become an invitation to abandon every ethical restriction surrounding punishment.

The justice system must be severe where severity is warranted and restrained where restraint is necessary.

Anything else is not justice.

It is excess."

---

QUESTION 15: "What if your position makes people believe that offenders are being treated too well?"

JAY JAY:

"Then perhaps we should examine why we have allowed justice to become visually synonymous with suffering.

A prison sentence is not kindness.

Legal restrictions are not kindness.

Loss of liberty is not kindness.

Accountability is not kindness.

We do not need to make punishment grotesque in order to make it meaningful.

The purpose of justice is not to create spectacles of suffering for public consumption.

It is to establish consequences, protect society, and maintain the rule of law."

---

QUESTION 16: "If you had the authority to decide personally, would you ever administer the substance?"

JAY JAY:

"No.

And that answer is precisely why I am standing here.

Authority should make us more cautious, not more confident.

If I possessed the power to impose irreversible consequences upon another human being, my first responsibility would not be determining how much suffering I could justify.

It would be determining where my authority ends.

That is the distinction between possessing power and being worthy of it."

---

QUESTION 17: "So what, ultimately, is the purpose of this entire proposal?"

JAY JAY:

"To expose a question that is considerably larger than Aurethine.

The substance is not the real subject.

We are.

The real question is what kind of institution we intend to become when confronted with people who have committed acts we find almost impossible to comprehend.

Do we become more disciplined?

Or more vindictive?

Do we strengthen the law?

Or weaken its principles?

Do we pursue accountability?

Or merely satisfy anger?

Because eventually, every institution encounters a moment when its values become inconvenient.

That is when values become real.

Anyone can defend principles when they cost nothing.

The true test is whether we maintain them when abandoning them would be emotionally satisfying.

That is the test I wanted this room to confront.

And if we can leave this meeting understanding that justice requires both accountability and restraint, then perhaps the most important conclusion has already been reached."

That's it, now it's 5:15 , I still have like a lot of time

So I prepared for my concert tomorrow, im gonna release the song tomorrow on the concert live.

I went to my personal singing studio where my unpublished songs r written the song im gonna release tomorrow is: hate me

They lyrics go like

HATE ME

[INTRO — almost whispered]

"Yeah.

You said you hate me?

...okay.

Hate me.

(me... me...)

[BEAT DROP]

I don't care.

(don't care...)

Never did.

Never will.

---

[VERSE 1]

I heard you talking

Yeah, I heard it all

Funny how you know my name

But don't know me at all

You don't like my attitude

You don't like the way I move

You don't like the things I do

Okay.

That's cool.

I got nothing to prove.

You keep watching

Every little thing

Then you say I'm "too much"

Baby, that's funny

'Cause you can't look away

Even when you say you don't care

---

[PRE-CHORUS]

I don't care

(don't care...)

I don't care

(no, I don't...)

Say whatever you want

I won't change

I don't care

(don't care...)

Never did

(never did...)

If you hate me that much

Why you saying my name?

---

[CHORUS — bass-heavy]

Hate me

Hate me

Go ahead, hate me.

I don't care

I don't care

You can say it to my face.

Hate me

Hate me

That's okay, baby.

If you hate me, I get the gain

You keep giving me your attention anyway.

(anyway... way...)

Hate me.

---

[POST-CHORUS]

Seven days—

Still not enough?

You found another hour

just to keep me up.

(up... up...)

That's crazy.

You hate me...

But you know everything.

---

[VERSE 2]

New day

Same comments

New post

Same nonsense

I don't even read it

I just keep moving

You call it drama

I call it background

You call me lucky

I call it right now

You want a reaction

I don't have one

You want me bothered

I'm having too much fun

And honestly...

If this is your hobby—

You should probably get a new one.

---

[PRE-CHORUS]

I don't care

(don't care...)

I don't care

(no, I don't...)

Say whatever you want

I won't change

I don't care

(don't care...)

Never did

(never did...)

If you hate me that much

Why you saying my name?

---

[CHORUS]

Hate me

Hate me

Go ahead, hate me.

I don't care

I don't care

You can say it to my face.

Hate me

Hate me

That's okay, baby.

If you hate me, I get the gain

You keep giving me your attention anyway.

(anyway... way...)

Hate me.

---

[RAP — beat switches, stripped-down and aggressive]

Okay.

You don't like me?

Cool.

I don't need you to.

You got a whole lot to say

But I never asked you to.

Talk online

Then you watch offline

Every move

Every post

Every headline

That's funny.

You say I'm on your nerves

But you know my every word.

You know the songs

Know the looks

Know the shows

Know the hooks

That's not hate.

That's homework.

And you still failed.

I don't chase

I don't beg

I don't call

I don't text

I just step in

Do my thing

And somehow

I'm the topic again.

You want me smaller?

No chance.

You want me quiet?

Not today.

You want me gone?

Wrong girl.

I'm already here.

And I'm not going anywhere.

(anywhere...)

You can keep throwing shade

I'ma keep throwing numbers.

You spend all night

Trying to pull me under.

I spend five minutes

Making something you remember.

That's the difference.

Don't confuse it.

You hate me?

Fine.

But remember—

you pressed play.

---

[BRIDGE — beat almost disappears]

Maybe you hate me.

Maybe you don't.

Maybe you just like

having something to talk about.

I don't know.

I don't care.

(care... care...)

You can keep my name

inside your mouth.

I'll keep my name

at the top.

---

[BEAT CUT]

Hate me.

(me...)

Hate me.

(me...)

Say it.

---

[FINAL CHORUS — huge]

Hate me

Hate me

Go ahead, hate me.

I don't care

I don't care

You can say it to my face.

Hate me

Hate me

That's okay, baby.

If you hate me, I get the gain

You keep giving me your attention anyway.

(anyway... way...)

Hate me.

Hate me.

---

[DANCE BREAK — crowd chant]

Hate!

(hate!)

Me!

(me!)

Hate!

(hate!)

Me!

(me!)

I don't—

CARE!

(care... care...)

Never—

DID!

(did... did...)

Never—

WILL!

---

[OUTRO — quiet again]

You said you hate me?

...

Okay.

Keep going.

(going... going...)

I kinda like the attention.

Hate me."

That's it , im kinda scared and also I'll be performing another song the name is: somehow u

"SOMEHOW, YOU

[INTRO — JENNIE]

Mm...

I was talking to somebody today.

And somehow...

I thought about you.

[ADAM — softly]

Again?

[JENNIE]

Again.

[ADAM]

Funny.

'Cause I did too.

[JENNIE]

You did?

[ADAM]

Yeah.

I was talking to somebody...

And I was thinking about you.

(you... you...)

---

[VERSE 1 — JENNIE]

I was sitting there, listening

Trying to pay attention

They were telling me a story

I was laughing at the right parts

But somewhere in the middle

I started thinking about you

Wondering what you would've said

If you were sitting next to me

They asked me what I wanted

I almost said your name

Then I laughed it off so quickly

Like nothing had changed

But it did.

Something changed.

'Cause lately every little thing

Feels like it leads back to you

A song I hear

A place I see

A stupid little joke

Someone says something

And suddenly—

There you are.

---

[ADAM — VERSE 2]

I had the same thing happen

Just a couple hours ago

Someone asked me if I'm happy

I said, "Yeah, I think so"

But then I started wondering

What happy really means

'Cause every time I picture it

You're somewhere in the scene

It's not like I'm trying

To make everything about you

I actually try not to

But somehow when I'm talking

My mind takes a different route

They ask me where I've been

I think about where we went

They ask me what I'm listening to

I think about what you sent

And when they make me laugh

I catch myself looking around

Like I'm waiting for you

To be the one who makes that sound

---

[PRE-CHORUS — JENNIE]

I don't mean to...

[ADAM]

I don't try to...

[JENNIE]

But somehow...

[ADAM]

Every time...

[BOTH]

It comes back to you.

---

[CHORUS — BOTH]

Every time I talk to somebody

I think about you

Every time somebody makes me laugh

I wish it was you

I could be surrounded

By a hundred different faces

But somehow I'm still looking

For you in all the places

I don't know what you did to me

I don't know what you do

But every conversation...

Somehow...

Leads to you.

(you... you...)

---

[POST-CHORUS — JENNIE]

Somehow, you.

[ADAM]

Always you.

[JENNIE]

Even when I'm not thinking—

[ADAM]

I'm thinking of you.

[BOTH]

Somehow...

You.

---

[VERSE 3 — JENNIE]

Someone asked me what I like

I started naming little things

Coffee when it's raining

Late-night drives

Songs I shouldn't sing

Then I realized every answer

Had a memory attached

And every memory

Had your face somewhere in the back

I tried to change the subject

Tried to keep the conversation light

But then they mentioned your favorite song

And I smiled without thinking twice

They looked at me and asked me

"Why are you smiling like that?"

I said, "It's nothing."

But we both knew

It wasn't nothing.

---

[ADAM — VERSE 4]

I was with my friends last night

Everybody talking loud

Someone asked me who I liked

I almost said it out loud

I changed the subject

They didn't let it go

They kept asking questions

Like they already know

Maybe they do.

Maybe I'm obvious.

Maybe every time your name comes up

My whole face gives it away

Maybe I'm terrible at hiding

How I feel about you

But honestly...

I don't think I want to hide it anymore.

---

[JENNIE]

You know what I hate?

[ADAM]

What?

[JENNIE]

I can be having the best conversation

And then something reminds me of you.

[ADAM]

That's not what you hate.

[JENNIE]

What do I hate then?

[ADAM]

That you like it.

[JENNIE]

...Maybe.

---

[PRE-CHORUS — JENNIE]

I don't mean to...

[ADAM]

I don't try to...

[JENNIE]

But every little road—

[ADAM]

Every little thought—

[BOTH]

Keeps leading back to you.

---

[CHORUS — BOTH]

Every time I talk to somebody

I think about you

Every time somebody makes me laugh

I wish it was you

I could be surrounded

By a hundred different faces

But somehow I'm still looking

For you in all the places

I don't know what you did to me

I don't know what you do

But every conversation...

Somehow...

Leads to you.

(you... you...)

---

[VERSE 5 — ADAM]

Maybe it's the way you listen

Like you actually hear me

Maybe it's the way you laugh

When something isn't even funny

Maybe it's the little things

You probably don't remember

Like the night you stayed up talking

When you could've gone to bed

Maybe it's your voice

Maybe it's your eyes

Maybe it's the way you say

"I'm fine" when I know you're not

Maybe it's the fact

That I don't have to pretend

When I'm with you

I don't know.

I just know that when you're gone

Something feels missing.

---

[JENNIE — VERSE 6]

Maybe it's the way you look at me

When you think I'm not looking

Maybe it's the way you remember

Every random thing I've said

Maybe it's the way you make silence

Feel completely comfortable

Like we don't have to fill every second

Just to know we're okay

Maybe it's the way

You make ordinary days

Feel like something I'll remember

Maybe that's why

Every time I'm with somebody else

I start wishing...

It was you.

---

[ADAM]

I think that's the problem.

[JENNIE]

What?

[ADAM]

Everybody else feels like everybody else.

[JENNIE]

And me?

[ADAM]

You feel like you.

[JENNIE]

That's such a cheesy answer.

[ADAM]

You smiled.

[JENNIE]

Maybe.

---

[BRIDGE — JENNIE]

I could talk about the weather

Talk about my day

Talk about the things

That happened on the way

I could talk about a movie

Talk about a song

Talk about somebody

I've known for way too long

But somehow in the middle

Of every little thing

Your name appears

Inside my head

Like a melody

I didn't know I knew

---

[ADAM]

I could talk about my plans

Talk about my friends

Talk about the places

That I wanna go someday

I could talk about the future

Like I know where I'll be

But every version of tomorrow

Has you somewhere next to me

And maybe that's too much

Maybe I'm getting ahead

But I've tried to picture life

Without thinking of you

And honestly?

I can't.

---

[BOTH — QUIET]

Maybe that's what this is.

Maybe this is what happens

When somebody becomes

Part of your every thought.

---

[INSTRUMENTAL BREAK]

(soft piano, distant vocal echoes)

[JENNIE — whisper]

You...

[ADAM — echo]

You...

[JENNIE]

Still you.

[ADAM]

Always you.

---

[VERSE 7 — JENNIE]

I was talking to somebody

Just yesterday

They asked me why I suddenly

Looked so far away

I didn't know what to tell them

So I just smiled

Because somewhere in my head

You had been there for a while

And maybe that's the strangest part

You're not even doing anything.

You're just existing.

Somewhere.

Living your life.

And somehow...

You're still taking up space

Inside mine.

---

[ADAM — VERSE 8]

I was talking to somebody

About something completely different

Then they said your name

And suddenly I wasn't listening

Not because they were boring

Not because I didn't care

I just couldn't stop thinking

About the way you looked at me

And I wondered if you do it too.

Do you ever hear a song

And think of me?

Do you ever see a place

And wish I was there?

Do you ever talk to someone

And suddenly realize

You'd rather be talking to me?

---

[JENNIE]

Maybe.

[ADAM]

Maybe?

[JENNIE]

Okay.

Definitely.

---

[PRE-CHORUS — BOTH]

I don't mean to...

We don't try to...

But somehow...

Every time...

It comes back to you.

---

[CHORUS — BOTH]

Every time I talk to somebody

I think about you

Every time somebody makes me laugh

I wish it was you

I could be surrounded

By a hundred different faces

But somehow I'm still looking

For you in all the places

I don't know what you did to me

I don't know what you do

But every conversation...

Every little thought...

Every road I take...

Still leads to you.

(to you... to you...)

---

[POST-CHORUS — JENNIE]

If I'm being honest—

[ADAM]

I'm thinking about you.

[JENNIE]

If you're being honest—

[ADAM]

I'm thinking about you too.

[BOTH]

Maybe we're both

A little too far gone.

---

[RAP-SUNG SECTION — JENNIE]

Phone in my hand

But I'm not checking texts

Somebody's talking

I'm thinking what's next

Not for me

Not for them

I'm thinking where you've been

And when I'll see you again

It's getting ridiculous

I know, I know

Every little thing

Turns into you somehow

I could be anywhere

Doing anything

And somehow

You're the first thing

That my mind brings

---

[ADAM — RAP-SUNG RESPONSE]

Same here.

No lie.

You show up

Every time.

New place

New day

Still your face

In my mind

I don't even have to try

It's automatic.

Kind of dramatic.

But if this is a problem

I don't really wanna fix it.

---

[JENNIE]

You make it sound so easy.

[ADAM]

It is.

[JENNIE]

How?

[ADAM]

I like you.

[JENNIE]

Oh.

[ADAM]

There.

Problem solved.

[JENNIE]

You're impossible.

[ADAM]

And you're smiling again.

---

[BRIDGE 2 — JENNIE]

Maybe I don't need an answer.

Maybe I don't need to know

Why every road I take

Keeps bringing me back home.

Maybe I don't need to fight it.

Maybe I can let it happen.

Maybe when I think of you

I should just let myself smile.

---

[ADAM]

Maybe I don't need to hide it.

Maybe I can say it plainly.

Maybe when someone asks me

Who I've been thinking about—

I don't have to change the subject.

I don't have to look away.

I can just say your name.

---

[JENNIE]

My name?

[ADAM]

Your name.

[JENNIE]

And what if I say yours?

[ADAM]

Then I guess we're even.

---

[FINAL CHORUS — BOTH, BUILDING]

Every time I talk to somebody

I think about you

Every time somebody makes me laugh

I wish it was you

Every time I close my eyes

I somehow see you

Every little thing I do

Finds another way to you

I could be surrounded

By a million different people

But somehow you're the one

Who makes the whole room disappear

I don't know what you did to me

I don't know what you do

But every conversation...

Every little thought...

Every stupid little moment...

Still leads to you.

(you... you...)

---

[JENNIE]

When I'm talking—

[ADAM]

I think of you.

[JENNIE]

When I'm laughing—

[ADAM]

I think of you.

[JENNIE]

When I'm dreaming—

[ADAM]

I see you.

[BOTH]

Guess I can't help it.

---

[FINAL CHORUS — BIGGEST]

Every time I talk to somebody

I think about you

Every time somebody makes me laugh

I wish it was you

I could have the whole world

Standing right in front of me

And somehow I'd still be wondering

Where you could be

Maybe it's ridiculous

Maybe it's too true

But every single road

I take...

Leads me back to you.

(back to you...)

---

[OUTRO — JENNIE]

So...

Who were you talking to?

[ADAM]

Nobody important.

[JENNIE]

Why?

[ADAM]

Because I was thinking about you.

[JENNIE]

Again?

[ADAM]

Again.

[JENNIE]

You know what?

[ADAM]

What?

[JENNIE]

Same.

(you... you...)

[BOTH — softly]

Somehow...

It's always youuuuu(i hit a hight note)."

While I was hitting the high note,I was in a soundproof glass so it won't break but I accidentally left a glass inside and it broke

Sigh

Forget it ,I looked at the time it was 5:45

I went down and that bating kumag was laying on my bed wet af ,his clothes soaking wet,

Ci-n!! Get off my bed!!

Finally he got off

And said

Jayyy, pls forgive me

He crawled toward me and cringed to my feet

Asshole!get off!

Only if u forgive me

I sighed, he's gonna keep clinging to my feet if I don't forgive him

Fine,I forgive u

Then finally he stopped and grinned like an idiot

I sighed

I know he's annoying but I can't help but forgive,he's like my little brother,

Then we both talked and when we got down , I saw someone that made my quarter of my eye flash red.....

Ch goal:5

If anyone has guests on who he is, pls comment

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