At the end of Be More Chill, do Christine and Jeremy hook up?
The end of Be More Chill is what we fancy-pants writers call an implied resolution. *** SPOILER ALERT! *** At the end of the book, it is revealed that the text of Be More Chill is, in fact, a data dump from Jeremy’s head of all the things he did prior to trying to ask Christine out disastrously during their school play. The idea is that the READER has to put him or herself in Christine’s position and decide, if this book were given to him/her, whether to forgive Jeremy for his crimes and start a romance with him, or not. *** END SPOILER**** I thought this was an interesting ending, but many people don’t like it. For a while, when I visited schools and people asked if Jeremy and Christine hooked up, I said, “Yes, but they probably don’t stay together. Relationships in high school are usually chaotic and often don’t last.” But that tended to make people sad. So now I just tell them: “YES!
