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• What Better Way To Live Than To Suffer by confused_something

  Fandoms: Happiest Season (2020)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  11 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Abby Holland/Riley Johnson
  • Abby Holland & Riley Johnson
  • Abby Holland & John (Happiest Season)
  • Riley Johnson
  • Abby Holland (Happiest Season)
  • John (Happiest Season)
  • Riley's parents
  • Harper (short appearance)
  • starts after Harper denies being gay
  • "Who did this to you" BUT it's self harm
  • Self Harm
  • slight wound description
  • Suicide thoughts
  • and i'm not kidding if this may trigger you leave it
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Depression
  • Depressive Episode
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Angst/Comfort
  • both perspectives
  • Author regrets nothing
  • Pining
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • if you want Harper redemption arc you came to the wrong person
  • they don't have any other friends (simply cause i don't want to write new characters)
  • Attempted Suicide
  • Kind Of
  • Slow Burn
  • Abby Needs a Hug
  • John is a national treasure
  • he is also frustrated by how oblivious two women can be
  • Trust Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Attacks
  • bordering on eating disorder
  • many chapters of clueless lesbians
  • Canon Divergence
  • Fluff

  Summary

  After Harper denies everything, Abby leaves her behind, trying to move on while befriending Riley. The two of them become great friends until Abby falls into a depressive episode that she wants to hide from everyone, but when Riley's comes for a surprise visit, it's getting harder and harder to hide, especially the wounds underneath her shirt.
  Just when Abby decides to leave, an earlier revelation stops her from going just yet and she wakes up Riley to talk about it.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  134,072

  Chapters:

  37/37

  Comments:

  9

  Kudos:

  32

  Bookmarks:

  8

  Hits:

  1,611

• We meet again by confused_something

  Fandoms: Happiest Season (2020)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F
  • Complete Work

  08 Feb 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Abby Holland/Riley Johnson
  • Abby Holland & Riley Johnson
  • Harper Caldwell/Abby Holland
  • Abby Holland (Happiest Season)
  • John Finnell
  • Riley Johnson
  • Ava Bennett
  • Emilio Bennett
  • Harper Caldwell
  • Trauma
  • Bullying
  • Anxiety
  • Social Anxiety
  • Breakup
  • Defense Mechanism
  • pushing people away
  • Slow Burn
  • Canon Divergence
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort

  Summary

  Alternative ending where Abby breaks up with Harper but stays in contact with Riley. They both start to fall for each other but are too afraid to admit it until one night.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  38,835

  Chapters:

  32/32

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  48

  Bookmarks:

  12

  Hits:

  3,126