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* TheCoatsAreOff: As Jack and Craig square off for their Homecoming fight, Jack discards his tuxedo coat and bow tie, not wanting to give Craig extra clothing to grab.
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* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Downplayed, as it's the ordinary staircase of an ordinary suburban home, but Kayla reveals herself in this way before Jack takes her to Homecoming.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Jessica not telling Jack what favor she wants from him after deciding, apparently just because she liked the thought of keeping him in suspense. Instead, she waits [[spoiler:until the day tickets for the Homecoming dance go on sale before telling Jack she wants him to take her. Of course, Jack had already asked Kayla. If Jessica had simply told Jack a week earlier, he and Kayla might have talked it out and agreed. Instead... everything with Brad starts happen.]]
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* YouOweMe: While Kayla is dating Craig, Jack wants warn her about his {{Jerkass}}ery but doesn't want to be breaking them up just so he can have her. So he asks Jessica to clue Kayla in on what Craig is really like. Jessica agrees, in exchange for a future favor from Jack. Knowing it's a bad idea, Jack agrees.
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* YouOweMe: While Kayla is dating Craig, Jack wants warn her about his {{Jerkass}}ery but doesn't want to be breaking them up just so he can have her. So he asks Jessica to clue Kayla in on what Craig is really like. Jessica agrees, in exchange for a future favor from Jack. Knowing it's a bad idea, Jack agrees. [[spoiler:She insists he take her to Homecoming, ''after'' he'd already asked Kayla. Jack refuses, which sets the stage for all the Jessica drama to follow.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jack muses that if he and Brad ever got into a fight, it would be "''Film/ManOfSteel'' Superman vs. Zod epic." [[spoiler:It is, though not at all in the way he thought.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Jack muses that if he and Brad ever got into a fight, it would be "''Film/ManOfSteel'' Superman vs. Zod epic." [[spoiler:It is, though not at all in the way he thought.]]]]
** The Pipe Bomb Incident, which doesn’t happen until [[spoiler:Jack's second year of college]], is mentioned as early as Chapter 8.
** Jack muses that if he and Brad ever got into a fight, it would be "''Film/ManOfSteel'' Superman vs. Zod epic." [[spoiler:It is, though not at all in the way he thought.
** The Pipe Bomb Incident, which doesn’t happen until [[spoiler:Jack's second year of college]], is mentioned as early as Chapter 8.
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* BreakThemByTalking: To get (what he hopes is) his last revenge on Kayla for dumping him and Jack for -- being there, Craig does this. He tells Kayla that he's a womanizing BastardBoyfriend, and Jack ''knew''... but didn't warn her. He then tells Jack that Kayla fell so easily for his fake charm and flattery it won't be long before someone else can command her attention.
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* SchoolOfHardKnocks: Defied. Every time violence breaks out on Brow Ridge High grounds, someone gets in trouble. Most notable is when Coach Walburn decides wrestling will make a good physical education activity for the day, and has Jack and Craig (deep in their feud over Kayla) go at it. Kayla has the good sense to slip out and alert the vice principal, who puts a stop to it. Walburn is promptly fired.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: Jack and Kayla have their moments at this. Sometimes their friends will tease them for being nauseatingly cute together. Sometimes even Jack will excuse the audience if they feel the need to go vomit after a particularly sappy passage.
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** One of the best example is when Tara (showing off her runner's legs in short shorts) meets Rhona (currently with red-and-green hair).
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** To get [[spoiler:Brad, Jack, Kayla, and Jessica hatch a plan of their own. Making it look like Brad's gotten everything he wants: catching Jack and Jessica in bed so he can blackmail Jack into setting him up with Amanda, but that's just a distraction for Kayla to take Brad's phone and delete the picture he has of Jessica and her brother. And Jack's phone is on a speaker call to Brad's dad, who quickly comes to collect his son for being an idiot.]]
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** To get [[spoiler:Brad, Jack, Kayla, and Jessica hatch a plan of their own. Making it look like Brad's gotten everything he wants: catching Jack and Jessica in bed so he can blackmail Jack into setting him up with Amanda, but that's just a distraction for Kayla to take Brad's phone and delete the picture he has of Jessica and her brother. And Jack's phone is [[EngineeredPublicConfession on a speaker call to Brad's dad, dad]], who quickly comes to collect his son for being an idiot.]]
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** Jack, Joe, Alan, and [[spoiler:Craig are all on the receiving end of one by Brad, enraged that Jack foiled his scheme and he's gotten in severe trouble for it. It takes the new gym teacher, Ms. Cartwright, to put him down, and ends up arrested for assault.]]
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** Jack, Joe, Alan, and [[spoiler:Craig are all on the receiving end of one by Brad, enraged that Jack foiled his scheme and he's gotten in severe trouble for it. It takes the new gym teacher, Ms. Cartwright, to put him down, and he ends up arrested for assault.]]
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* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: During a game of dodgeball, no less. Kayla's second day of school at Brow Ridge, first gym class, dodgeball teams whittled down to her and Craig vs. Jack. Jack as a ball and she doesn't, but he tells her to go get one and then they'll see who's better. [[BoomHeadshot Craig has a rather different idea.]]
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* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: During a game of dodgeball, no less. Kayla's second day of school at Brow Ridge, first gym class, dodgeball teams whittled down to her and Craig vs. Jack. Jack as has a ball and she doesn't, but he tells her to go get one and then they'll see who's better. [[BoomHeadshot Craig has a rather different idea.]]
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: Kayla to Jack. Since the story is told in first-person from Jack's perspective, we only get to know Kayla through his eyes. And with much of the drama happening around and to Jack, their relationship and investment in it is often squeezed out. PlayedForDrama as this creates actual problems in their relationship, especially going into college, as Kayla is working hard on the courses she needs for her veterinary degree, and Jack is doing his best to be supportive while also wanting involve her in his life among the ISU theater department. [[spoiler:In the second semester of sophomore year, this becomes more apparent, as Kayla asks Jack to give her more space so she has more time and energy to devote to her studies, culminating in her taking an internship over the summer in Des Moines, leaving Jack to go back home and spend the summer alone. Kayla actually states that she needs more "me things" in her life, rather than just sharing all friends and activities with Jack.]]
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Mr. and Mrs. Hannigan. Mr. Hannigan is large even by the standards of characters in this story, while Mrs. Hannigan is petite. Next to her husband, she's tiny.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: PlayedForDrama with how Jack gets Amanda to [[spoiler:stop from going all the way with him while she has him handcuffed. She asks "Don't you want to lose your virginity to someone you love?" He replies "Yeah, but you're my ''sister''. I want to lose it someone I actually ''care'' about." Jack immediately realizes he just said that '''he doesn't care about his sister''', leaving her emotionally crushed. He regrets it, and it takes some time for them to recover but... well, she ''was'' trying to rape him at the time.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Jack muses that if he and Brad ever got into a fight, it would be "''Film/ManOfSteel'' Superman vs. Zod epic." [[spoiler:It is, though not at all in the way he thought.]]
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* YouOweMe: While Kayla is dating Craig, Jack wants warn her about his {{Jerkass}}ery but doesn't want to be breaking them up just so he can have her. So he asks Jessica to clue Kayla in on what Craig is really like. Jessica agrees, in exchange for a future favor from Jack. Knowing it's a bad idea, Jack agrees.
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* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: During a game of dodgeball, no less. Kayla's second day of school at Brow Ridge, first gym class, dodgeball teams whittled down to her and Craig vs. Jack. Jack as a ball and she doesn't, but he tells her to go get one and then they'll see who's better. [[BoomHeadshot Craig has a rather different idea.]]
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* ShippingTorpedo: A few times, Jack tells readers shipping him and Rhona "Knock it off. It's not going to happen."
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* FlippingTheBird: What Jack and company plan to do their last day of high school: Stand outside the building and give it a big, fat middle finger. By the time all is said and done, the stuff Jack especially has suffered there makes it ''richly'' deserved.
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* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Constantly through the narrative, Jack will call out anything he writes that could have multiple meanings, telling the audience to get their minds out of the gutter, stop smirking, or simply noting "giggity" in parentheses.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Kayla's contribution to the drama surrounding [[spoiler:the threesome with Tara]]. Kayla dramatically underestimated how jealous a girlfriend she is.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Kayla's contribution to the drama surrounding [[spoiler:the threesome with Tara]]. Kayla dramatically underestimated how jealous a girlfriend she is.would be seeing Jack with another woman.
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* CreepyTwins: Alan and Amanda ''actively practice'' to invoke this trope, moving and speaking at the same time in the same tone, finishing each other's sentences, and so on, apparently just because they know it creeps Jack out and they like messing with him. [[spoiler:[[TwinDesynch After their incestuous relationship implodes, they drop this]], and as Jack and Amanda repair theirs, they find themselves sometimes doing it unintentionally. . . [[{{Irony}} greatly creeping out Alan]].]]
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* CreepyTwins: Alan and Amanda ''actively practice'' to invoke this trope, moving and speaking at the same time in the same tone, finishing each other's sentences, FinishingEachOthersSentences, and so on, apparently just because they know it creeps Jack out and they like messing with him. [[spoiler:[[TwinDesynch After their incestuous relationship implodes, they drop this]], and as Jack and Amanda repair theirs, they find themselves sometimes doing it unintentionally. . . [[{{Irony}} greatly creeping out Alan]].]]
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* PopUpTexting: Well, not quite, being a literary work, but text messages are important to the major characters. They're structured for the audience not unlike dialogue sections on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: All over the place. Many characters are {{Deadpan Snarker}}s or rudely sarcastic, and even the ones who aren't witty can usually keep up through sheer effort (for a time, anyway).
** One of the best example is when Tara (showing off her runner's legs in short shorts) meets Rhona (currently with red-and-green hair).
--->'''Rhona''': Nice legs. You get them chiseled out of marble?\\
'''Tara''': Nice hair. Did you taste the rainbow?\\
'''Rhona''': Yeah. I was all out of my normal steroids after you bought out the store.\\
'''Tara''': Yeah, I think I saw you while I was driving over. You were turning your head to tell me I could drive through the intersection.\\
'''Rhona''': Legs like that and you're still driving? Convenient travel isn't ''always'' an excuse for laziness.\\
'''Tara''': And hipster hair styling isn't always a substitute for ''cool''.\\
'''Jack''': ''([[OhCrap starts backing away slowly]])''\\
'''Rhona''': [[WorthyOpponent I like her.]]
** One of the best example is when Tara (showing off her runner's legs in short shorts) meets Rhona (currently with red-and-green hair).
--->'''Rhona''': Nice legs. You get them chiseled out of marble?\\
'''Tara''': Nice hair. Did you taste the rainbow?\\
'''Rhona''': Yeah. I was all out of my normal steroids after you bought out the store.\\
'''Tara''': Yeah, I think I saw you while I was driving over. You were turning your head to tell me I could drive through the intersection.\\
'''Rhona''': Legs like that and you're still driving? Convenient travel isn't ''always'' an excuse for laziness.\\
'''Tara''': And hipster hair styling isn't always a substitute for ''cool''.\\
'''Jack''': ''([[OhCrap starts backing away slowly]])''\\
'''Rhona''': [[WorthyOpponent I like her.]]
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* ThemeTwinNaming: Apparently, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison knew Alan and Amanda would be more like each other and Jack would be the [[OddNameOut odd man out]].
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* CreepyTwins: Alan and Amanda ''actively practice'' to invoke this trope, moving and speaking at the same time in the same tone, finishing each other's sentences, and so on, apparently just because they know it creeps Jack out and they like messing with him. [[spoiler:After their incestuous relationship implodes, they drop this, and as Jack and Amanda repair theirs, they find themselves sometimes doing it unintentionally. . . [[{{Irony}} greatly creeping out Alan]].]]
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* CreepyTwins: Alan and Amanda ''actively practice'' to invoke this trope, moving and speaking at the same time in the same tone, finishing each other's sentences, and so on, apparently just because they know it creeps Jack out and they like messing with him. [[spoiler:After [[spoiler:[[TwinDesynch After their incestuous relationship implodes, they drop this, this]], and as Jack and Amanda repair theirs, they find themselves sometimes doing it unintentionally. . . [[{{Irony}} greatly creeping out Alan]].]]
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* SameSexTriplets: Averted. Jack, Alan, and Amanda are triplets, none of them identical. Alan and Amanda both have black hair and blue eyes, while Jack has brown hair and green eyes. Even he doesn't understand the genetics behind it.
* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: Alan and Amanda are a year behind Jack despite being the same age because childhood illness kept them from starting school at the same time he did. Whatever it was they got over it just fine, neither have any health issues in their late teens (Alan is actually more fit and stronger than Jack).
* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: Alan and Amanda are a year behind Jack despite being the same age because childhood illness kept them from starting school at the same time he did. Whatever it was they got over it just fine, neither have any health issues in their late teens (Alan is actually more fit and stronger than Jack).
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* CreepyTwins: Alan and Amanda ''actively practice'' to invoke this trope, moving and speaking at the same time in the same tone, finishing each other's sentences, and so on, apparently just because they know it creeps Jack out and they like messing with him. [[spoiler:After their incestuous relationship implodes, they drop this, and as Jack and Amanda repair theirs, they find themselves sometimes doing it unintentionally. . . [[{{Irony}} greatly creeping out Alan]].]]
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[[Characters/SheIsTheOne Has a Characters page.]]
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* DyingForYourArt: InUniverse. In Jack's Acting II class at ISU, one of the exercises is "The Dickens Leap," where you pick a character from Dickens, make your appearance match as closely as possible, read the description of the character for the class, then deliver a line as the character, "leaping" into character. Jack chooses a character with a black eye, so Jack punches himself in the face. His professor advises him that method acting has its limits, and it would be easier and safer to just use makeup for the black eye.
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* DyingForYourArt: DyeingForYourArt: {{Discussed}} InUniverse. In Jack's Acting II class at ISU, one of the exercises is "The Dickens Leap," where you pick a character from Dickens, make your appearance match as closely as possible, read the description of the character for the class, then deliver a line as the character, "leaping" into character. Jack chooses a character with a black eye, so Jack punches himself in the face. His professor advises him that method acting has its limits, and it would be easier and safer to just use makeup for the black eye.
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''She Is The One'' is a WebSerialNovel by Jashley. It can be read [[http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600107407&chapter=1 here]] (NSFW warning). The story is intended for mature audiences, sex is a part of the narrative, though sex scenes make up overall a small percentage of the word count.
The story is told in first-person by Jack Harrison, the luckiest unlucky smartest idiot ever, as he writes memoir-style about his life, often addressing his readers humorously. The story is broken up into "Sagas," approximately ten chapters each (though some are shorter and some are longer, and they've been getting longer as the story has progressed) roughly covering a "plot arc" in Jack's life. Being a true-to-life story, threads and characters weave in and out of various Sagas. The story is set in our modern world at about our modern time (a throwaway line in a recent chapter states the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 is out, but no hint of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic).
We catch up with Jack at the start of his sophmore year at Brow Ridge high school. A new family has moved in next door, the Hannigans, and Jack meets their daughter, Kayla, the now-literal GirlNextDoor. While not quite LoveAtFirstSight, Jack and Kayla connect rather quickly, and the first several chapters are devoted to them becoming the OfficialCouple. The focus is now on them as a couple, working on their relationship in the face of high school drama, which is fairly dramatic even by high school standards. A gun in a locker, a bona fide evil scheme, one of the most brutal schoolyard brawls ever, and an intramural prostitution ring are just some of the things Jack has to deal with before getting his diploma. Then the action moves to college as Jack and Kayla attend Iowa State University, where things are a bit less dramatic (up until The Pipe Bomb Incident, at least).
Through all this, we have a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast of colorful characters]] that move in and out of Jack's life. There's his best friends Joe and Brad and his high school nemesis, Craig. Rhona, his acerbic coworker at [=GameStop=] with constantaly-changing two-tone hair colors and [[GagBoobs remarkably big breasts]]. Jessica, the high school AlphaBitch and drama queen in every possible sense. There's Jack's exuberant running enthusiast cousin Tara, who Jack loves like a sister, and his actual siblings, Alan and Amanda. Jack and Kayla's parents are prominent as well, as to be expected. And then a whole tier of backup characters in teachers and students Jack interacts with. The cast expands even more at college, as Jack makes friends in and out of ISU's theater department.
Has a SharedUniverse with another author's stories on the same site, ''Being More Social'' and it's companion piece, ''Only If You Want''. Both are shorter and a bit more sex-focused than ''She Is The One'', and the crossover aspect is minimal: one character from ''Being More Social'' appears briefly in ''She Is The One''. Mostly, characters in one story will joke about an actual plot point in the other story.
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!!''She Is The One'' provides examples of:
* AxesAtSchool: A gun is found in Jack's locker. It's quickly proven to not be his, but it's still a lot more than he was prepared to deal with when he went into school that day.
* BrotherSisterIncest: The first chapter reveals Alan and Amanda, who share a bedroom, have been having sex with each other. [[spoiler:They're eventually broken up by Jack's parents, who think their relationship doesn't really have a future. Amanda also tries to seduce Jack, then forces herself on him when he turns her down, though he's able to stop her from going ''too'' far. Jessica is also being blackmailed by Brad with a picture of her and her brother having sex, necessitating ThePlan to get the picture deleted from Brad's phone and get him caught, though as Brad boomerang's back into Jack's life in senior year, it's called into question if that picture, and Jessica's relationship with her brother, ever really existed.]]
* ConvenientComa: Averted. [[spoiler:Jack's coma after the car wreck that took Craig's life is played realistically: he's out for about a day, and wakes up feeling exactly as shitty as you'd expect from someone who got knocked into a coma by a car wreck that claimed one life.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:By any legal definition, Amanda raped Jack by handcuffing him to his bed and giving him oral sex when he told her repeatedly to stop. Jack exhibits classic victim behaviors after this, afraid to be alone with Amanda and constantly questioning her motives and trustworthiness. It takes ''years'' for their relationship to heal, but it does start to mend eventually, though neither of them use the word "rape" the few times they discuss the incident. They've pretty much gotten back to a good state before Amanda brings it up again and actually says that she raped him, but Jack refuses the term. It might have been rape by any definition you care to bring up, but he won't label it that. . . seemingly because he just can't let the sentence "my sister raped me" exist in his brain without his head exploding.]]
* DyingForYourArt: InUniverse. In Jack's Acting II class at ISU, one of the exercises is "The Dickens Leap," where you pick a character from Dickens, make your appearance match as closely as possible, read the description of the character for the class, then deliver a line as the character, "leaping" into character. Jack chooses a character with a black eye, so Jack punches himself in the face. His professor advises him that method acting has its limits, and it would be easier and safer to just use makeup for the black eye.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Jack and Kayla have a very healthy sexual relationship. They can be hard and rough and talk dirty, or slow and sweet and tender, and will ask what each other is in the mood for as they get started. But even when they're trying to ram the bed through the wall, they're muttering about how much they love each other.
* GreenEyedMonster: Kayla's contribution to the drama surrounding [[spoiler:the threesome with Tara]]. Kayla dramatically underestimated how jealous a girlfriend she is.
* HighSchoolDance: Jack and Kayla become truly official after Homecoming sophmore year. The Junior and Senior Prom are given focus, but both are described as "very lame." [[spoiler:And Jack was barred from Junior Prom thanks to getting involved in the prostitution ring.]] In general, Jack's not a fan of "dances." The music's too loud and he doesn't like the "flail like you think you know what you're doing" style of dance.
* KissingCousins: Distraught from another disastrous relationship with a bad boyfriend, Tara spends the night in Jack's bed for comfort. Blearily waking up, they kiss a little more intimately than cousins should, Jack takes it especially bad because of his relationship with Kayla. [[spoiler:After she gets over this indiscretion, Kayla actually proposes a threesome with her, Jack, and Tara, under the reasoning that Tara deserves to be with someone who genuinely loves her at least once, and Kayla likes her well enough it should be all good and fun. Jack refuses for the moment, feeling everyone's emotions are just a bit too high for this to be a good idea. They revisit the threesome later as they vacation for a week at Kayla's parent's cabin, and the resulting awkwardness nearly destroys all involved relationships.]]
* TheJailBaitWait: Kayla's birthday is a few months before Jack's, so she turns eighteen first. She invokes this trope to put him under a sex embargo until his eighteenth birthday. She did have an ulterior motive, though she denied it at the time, before asking Jack before they resume their intimacy if he learned the lesson she was trying to teach.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Oh, yeah. High school isn't too hard to keep track of, with basically three tiers of characters: Jack's immediate circle of friends ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Rhona]]), Jack and Kayla's families, and the assorted students and teachers who are relevant to the plot for as long or short as they are. In college, things start getting more complicated, with people Jack meets in and out of the theater department, roommates, friends and friends of friends, etc. Jack will alternately state to the reader that he's introducing a character now because they'll be important later, or that he's meeting lots of people now who will be important later but he'll introduce them when they become important.
* LongRunner: The story is currently 147 chapters in length.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Jack and Kayla really, truly love each other, but that alone isn't enough in the face of real life. They both have to work hard to keep their relationship going, sometimes with each other. . . and sometimes against each other. Most of the story's dramatic tension comes from them just trying to juggle their relationship and the demands of high school and then college.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Jack, Joe, Alan, and [[spoiler:Craig are all on the receiving end of one by Brad, enraged that Jack foiled his scheme and he's gotten in severe trouble for it. It takes the new gym teacher, Ms. Cartwright, to put him down, and ends up arrested for assault.]]
** Jack takes another from [[spoiler:Don and his enforcers when Jack tries to steal the binder full of their high school hookers.]]
* ThePlan: Oh, Jack's a schemer, alright. He actually has to start reigning in this tendency after [[spoiler:the prostitution ring, as that got him beat within an inch of his life, nearly arrested, censured by the high school and punished by his parents. Oh, and nearly cost him his relationship with Kayla.]]
** The first plan isn't really Jack's. [[spoiler:Brad decides he wants Amanda, so he and Jessica work together to mess with Jack, the idea being that Jack will ask Brad for help dealing with this crap, Brad will agree if Jack sets him up with Amanda, and then Brad will just stop messing with him. Everyone involved lampshades how ''little'' sense this plan makes at any stage.]]
** To get [[spoiler:Brad, Jack, Kayla, and Jessica hatch a plan of their own. Making it look like Brad's gotten everything he wants: catching Jack and Jessica in bed so he can blackmail Jack into setting him up with Amanda, but that's just a distraction for Kayla to take Brad's phone and delete the picture he has of Jessica and her brother. And Jack's phone is on a speaker call to Brad's dad, who quickly comes to collect his son for being an idiot.]]
** Jack becomes concerned that Belle, after [[spoiler:her breakup with Joe, has gotten involved in the intramural prostitution ring. So enlists Kayla's help to stage an argument near someone he knows to be a client to put him in touch with the ring's operator, so Jack can see if Belle's involved. She's not. . . but Jack takes it upon himself to try and bring down the ring. [[{{Understatement}} This does not end well for him]].]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Jack witnesses [[spoiler:Coach Walburn]] commit suicide right in front of him. This haunts him for the remainder of the story, and he requires a professional psychiatrist to help him through the immediate aftermath.
** New gym teacher Ms. Cartwright karate chops [[spoiler:Brad]] to end a schoolyard brawl and keep him from doing extreme damage to Jack. She gets in trouble for putting her hands on a student, even if it was in defense of another student.
** Kayla talks Jack and [[spoiler:Tara]] into a threesome. None of them are emotionally mature enough to handle it, and it very nearly destroys all involved relationships. Jack and Kayla require professional counseling to move through it.
** Jack tries to singlehandedly take down the intramural prostitution ring. [[spoiler:This gets him beaten within an inch of his life, in trouble with school authorities and police for interfering, in trouble with his parents, and strains his relationship with Kayla almost to breaking.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: NotWhatItLooksLike. Jack has a pretty warm relationship with Ms. Cartwright (due in part to her assistance in [[spoiler:the fight with Brad]]), though she later starts discouraging him by saying they're getting "too familiar." Returning a year later for Alan and Amanda's graduation, Jack asks her what that was all about, and she replies that some of the other teachers were teasing her that she had her eye on Jack. She didn't, and they likely knew that (otherwise there would have been stern talkings-to instead of teasing), but she tried to distance them to shield him from it.
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The story is told in first-person by Jack Harrison, the luckiest unlucky smartest idiot ever, as he writes memoir-style about his life, often addressing his readers humorously. The story is broken up into "Sagas," approximately ten chapters each (though some are shorter and some are longer, and they've been getting longer as the story has progressed) roughly covering a "plot arc" in Jack's life. Being a true-to-life story, threads and characters weave in and out of various Sagas. The story is set in our modern world at about our modern time (a throwaway line in a recent chapter states the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 is out, but no hint of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic).
We catch up with Jack at the start of his sophmore year at Brow Ridge high school. A new family has moved in next door, the Hannigans, and Jack meets their daughter, Kayla, the now-literal GirlNextDoor. While not quite LoveAtFirstSight, Jack and Kayla connect rather quickly, and the first several chapters are devoted to them becoming the OfficialCouple. The focus is now on them as a couple, working on their relationship in the face of high school drama, which is fairly dramatic even by high school standards. A gun in a locker, a bona fide evil scheme, one of the most brutal schoolyard brawls ever, and an intramural prostitution ring are just some of the things Jack has to deal with before getting his diploma. Then the action moves to college as Jack and Kayla attend Iowa State University, where things are a bit less dramatic (up until The Pipe Bomb Incident, at least).
Through all this, we have a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters cast of colorful characters]] that move in and out of Jack's life. There's his best friends Joe and Brad and his high school nemesis, Craig. Rhona, his acerbic coworker at [=GameStop=] with constantaly-changing two-tone hair colors and [[GagBoobs remarkably big breasts]]. Jessica, the high school AlphaBitch and drama queen in every possible sense. There's Jack's exuberant running enthusiast cousin Tara, who Jack loves like a sister, and his actual siblings, Alan and Amanda. Jack and Kayla's parents are prominent as well, as to be expected. And then a whole tier of backup characters in teachers and students Jack interacts with. The cast expands even more at college, as Jack makes friends in and out of ISU's theater department.
Has a SharedUniverse with another author's stories on the same site, ''Being More Social'' and it's companion piece, ''Only If You Want''. Both are shorter and a bit more sex-focused than ''She Is The One'', and the crossover aspect is minimal: one character from ''Being More Social'' appears briefly in ''She Is The One''. Mostly, characters in one story will joke about an actual plot point in the other story.
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!!''She Is The One'' provides examples of:
* AxesAtSchool: A gun is found in Jack's locker. It's quickly proven to not be his, but it's still a lot more than he was prepared to deal with when he went into school that day.
* BrotherSisterIncest: The first chapter reveals Alan and Amanda, who share a bedroom, have been having sex with each other. [[spoiler:They're eventually broken up by Jack's parents, who think their relationship doesn't really have a future. Amanda also tries to seduce Jack, then forces herself on him when he turns her down, though he's able to stop her from going ''too'' far. Jessica is also being blackmailed by Brad with a picture of her and her brother having sex, necessitating ThePlan to get the picture deleted from Brad's phone and get him caught, though as Brad boomerang's back into Jack's life in senior year, it's called into question if that picture, and Jessica's relationship with her brother, ever really existed.]]
* ConvenientComa: Averted. [[spoiler:Jack's coma after the car wreck that took Craig's life is played realistically: he's out for about a day, and wakes up feeling exactly as shitty as you'd expect from someone who got knocked into a coma by a car wreck that claimed one life.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: PlayedWith. [[spoiler:By any legal definition, Amanda raped Jack by handcuffing him to his bed and giving him oral sex when he told her repeatedly to stop. Jack exhibits classic victim behaviors after this, afraid to be alone with Amanda and constantly questioning her motives and trustworthiness. It takes ''years'' for their relationship to heal, but it does start to mend eventually, though neither of them use the word "rape" the few times they discuss the incident. They've pretty much gotten back to a good state before Amanda brings it up again and actually says that she raped him, but Jack refuses the term. It might have been rape by any definition you care to bring up, but he won't label it that. . . seemingly because he just can't let the sentence "my sister raped me" exist in his brain without his head exploding.]]
* DyingForYourArt: InUniverse. In Jack's Acting II class at ISU, one of the exercises is "The Dickens Leap," where you pick a character from Dickens, make your appearance match as closely as possible, read the description of the character for the class, then deliver a line as the character, "leaping" into character. Jack chooses a character with a black eye, so Jack punches himself in the face. His professor advises him that method acting has its limits, and it would be easier and safer to just use makeup for the black eye.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Jack and Kayla have a very healthy sexual relationship. They can be hard and rough and talk dirty, or slow and sweet and tender, and will ask what each other is in the mood for as they get started. But even when they're trying to ram the bed through the wall, they're muttering about how much they love each other.
* GreenEyedMonster: Kayla's contribution to the drama surrounding [[spoiler:the threesome with Tara]]. Kayla dramatically underestimated how jealous a girlfriend she is.
* HighSchoolDance: Jack and Kayla become truly official after Homecoming sophmore year. The Junior and Senior Prom are given focus, but both are described as "very lame." [[spoiler:And Jack was barred from Junior Prom thanks to getting involved in the prostitution ring.]] In general, Jack's not a fan of "dances." The music's too loud and he doesn't like the "flail like you think you know what you're doing" style of dance.
* KissingCousins: Distraught from another disastrous relationship with a bad boyfriend, Tara spends the night in Jack's bed for comfort. Blearily waking up, they kiss a little more intimately than cousins should, Jack takes it especially bad because of his relationship with Kayla. [[spoiler:After she gets over this indiscretion, Kayla actually proposes a threesome with her, Jack, and Tara, under the reasoning that Tara deserves to be with someone who genuinely loves her at least once, and Kayla likes her well enough it should be all good and fun. Jack refuses for the moment, feeling everyone's emotions are just a bit too high for this to be a good idea. They revisit the threesome later as they vacation for a week at Kayla's parent's cabin, and the resulting awkwardness nearly destroys all involved relationships.]]
* TheJailBaitWait: Kayla's birthday is a few months before Jack's, so she turns eighteen first. She invokes this trope to put him under a sex embargo until his eighteenth birthday. She did have an ulterior motive, though she denied it at the time, before asking Jack before they resume their intimacy if he learned the lesson she was trying to teach.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Oh, yeah. High school isn't too hard to keep track of, with basically three tiers of characters: Jack's immediate circle of friends ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Rhona]]), Jack and Kayla's families, and the assorted students and teachers who are relevant to the plot for as long or short as they are. In college, things start getting more complicated, with people Jack meets in and out of the theater department, roommates, friends and friends of friends, etc. Jack will alternately state to the reader that he's introducing a character now because they'll be important later, or that he's meeting lots of people now who will be important later but he'll introduce them when they become important.
* LongRunner: The story is currently 147 chapters in length.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Jack and Kayla really, truly love each other, but that alone isn't enough in the face of real life. They both have to work hard to keep their relationship going, sometimes with each other. . . and sometimes against each other. Most of the story's dramatic tension comes from them just trying to juggle their relationship and the demands of high school and then college.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
** Jack, Joe, Alan, and [[spoiler:Craig are all on the receiving end of one by Brad, enraged that Jack foiled his scheme and he's gotten in severe trouble for it. It takes the new gym teacher, Ms. Cartwright, to put him down, and ends up arrested for assault.]]
** Jack takes another from [[spoiler:Don and his enforcers when Jack tries to steal the binder full of their high school hookers.]]
* ThePlan: Oh, Jack's a schemer, alright. He actually has to start reigning in this tendency after [[spoiler:the prostitution ring, as that got him beat within an inch of his life, nearly arrested, censured by the high school and punished by his parents. Oh, and nearly cost him his relationship with Kayla.]]
** The first plan isn't really Jack's. [[spoiler:Brad decides he wants Amanda, so he and Jessica work together to mess with Jack, the idea being that Jack will ask Brad for help dealing with this crap, Brad will agree if Jack sets him up with Amanda, and then Brad will just stop messing with him. Everyone involved lampshades how ''little'' sense this plan makes at any stage.]]
** To get [[spoiler:Brad, Jack, Kayla, and Jessica hatch a plan of their own. Making it look like Brad's gotten everything he wants: catching Jack and Jessica in bed so he can blackmail Jack into setting him up with Amanda, but that's just a distraction for Kayla to take Brad's phone and delete the picture he has of Jessica and her brother. And Jack's phone is on a speaker call to Brad's dad, who quickly comes to collect his son for being an idiot.]]
** Jack becomes concerned that Belle, after [[spoiler:her breakup with Joe, has gotten involved in the intramural prostitution ring. So enlists Kayla's help to stage an argument near someone he knows to be a client to put him in touch with the ring's operator, so Jack can see if Belle's involved. She's not. . . but Jack takes it upon himself to try and bring down the ring. [[{{Understatement}} This does not end well for him]].]]
* RealityEnsues:
** Jack witnesses [[spoiler:Coach Walburn]] commit suicide right in front of him. This haunts him for the remainder of the story, and he requires a professional psychiatrist to help him through the immediate aftermath.
** New gym teacher Ms. Cartwright karate chops [[spoiler:Brad]] to end a schoolyard brawl and keep him from doing extreme damage to Jack. She gets in trouble for putting her hands on a student, even if it was in defense of another student.
** Kayla talks Jack and [[spoiler:Tara]] into a threesome. None of them are emotionally mature enough to handle it, and it very nearly destroys all involved relationships. Jack and Kayla require professional counseling to move through it.
** Jack tries to singlehandedly take down the intramural prostitution ring. [[spoiler:This gets him beaten within an inch of his life, in trouble with school authorities and police for interfering, in trouble with his parents, and strains his relationship with Kayla almost to breaking.]]
* TeacherStudentRomance: NotWhatItLooksLike. Jack has a pretty warm relationship with Ms. Cartwright (due in part to her assistance in [[spoiler:the fight with Brad]]), though she later starts discouraging him by saying they're getting "too familiar." Returning a year later for Alan and Amanda's graduation, Jack asks her what that was all about, and she replies that some of the other teachers were teasing her that she had her eye on Jack. She didn't, and they likely knew that (otherwise there would have been stern talkings-to instead of teasing), but she tried to distance them to shield him from it.
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