Chapter Nine

Margo scrambles to handle a flood of new fans, juggling photo quality complaints and an intoxicating cycle of pings, likes, and messages that feel like artificial courtship. While she worries about the reality of these feelings, her love for Bodhi remains the anchor that makes past relationships seem flimsy by comparison.

Over breakfast, Jinx shifts from skepticism to practical support. He presses Margo about taxes and legal structure, briefly floats a return to waitressing, then affirms her choice. Jinx helps her incorporate, optimize banking, and fix Bodhi’s insurance. He opens his own OnlyFans to learn the platform and proposes biweekly copromotions. Framing content like wrestling, he urges a lovable “face” persona to make fans stay.

Life with Bodhi deepens Margo’s joy—she guides him to smell roses, marveling at his growing cuteness. Jinx orders a parenting book and jokes about wrestling dreams for Bodhi, while the household bonds over nonstop wrestling, Arabella fandom, and Jinx’s industry stories. Margo reflects on free will and performance, seeing parallels between wrestling and curated online identity.

Momentum stalls: cancellations mount after the WangMangler promo as subscribers complain her page isn’t masturbatory enough. A suggested two-and-a-half-minute video length leads Margo to try longer, still-tame clips; she won’t masturbate with Jinx nearby. A recent copromotion loses money, and she feels the account slipping.

Then a new fan, JB, messages professionally, offering $100 for written work about her family’s holiday traditions because he’s aroused by her being “a real person.” Guarding her privacy, Margo invents a convincing family narrative, earns the tip immediately, and takes another $100 to craft a portrait of a fictional mother. Surprised by how moving and fun fabrication feels, she discovers a new, paying niche in personalized writing.