History Literature / SheIsTheOne

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 "[[Recap/SheIsTheOne 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).

Through all this, we have a 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 constantly 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.

* 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.]]

Through all this, we have a 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: When Jack and Kayla warn a girl Craig is talking to about [[BastardBoyfriend what he's really like.]] Turns out, Craig actually ''really'' likes this girl, and having his chances wrecked devastates him.

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.

* 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.

** Jack describes trying to wheedle information out of Kayla and Tara as "like listening to a Music/FloRida sing: painful and pointless."

* AndCallHimGeorge: Jack gets a lot of hugs that deal almost as much damage to him as his fights. Usually these come from Joe, but Mr. Hannigan and even Tara are also offenders (with Tara using TheGlomp to apply her run speed as bonus damage on the "call him George" attack).

** He may not be [[HollywoodToneDeaf able to sing]], but he firmly believes Music/CherLloyd can't, either.

-->[[Film/Music2021 Looking at you]], Music/{{Sia}}

* 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.

* LockedInARoom: When Jack gives the (extreme) Cliffnotes version of his sibling troubles to Ms. Cartwright, she suggests this trope, saying her mom used to do it to her and her siblings when they were kids. Jack is initially excited, but talking to Kayla reveals it's probably a really bad plan. [[spoiler:Then Alan and Amanda's relationship deteriorates further, Alan starts talking fairly seriously about suicide, so Jack enacts this anyway, partly because it's at least ''something'', mostly because Alan just bullseyed Jack's TraumaButton.]]

** After the to-do with [[spoiler:the prostitution ring, Kayla uses TheJailBaitWait to put Jack on sex embargo until his 18th birthday. She initially denies she has an ulterior motive, but eventually stright-up asks him if he learned the lesson she was trying to teach. She wanted them to work on being a couple without sex, so they'd have to deal with and talk about problems instead of porking to distract themselves. They're both desperate to resume their intimacy well before they actually do.]]

* TheMissusAndTheEx: After [[spoiler:the breakup]], Kayla and [[spoiler:Vanessa]] are attending a party Jack is throwing. Despite getting along quite well and knowing each other better than the other partygoers, they overhear some comments from Jack's friends to this effect, and decide to use this trope to mess with him a bit. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this leads to him deciding to face off with Graham in the parking lot instead of whatever has gotten into them, leading to the waterboarding.]]

* LongRunner: The story is currently over 150 chapters in length, most of which are in the neighborhood of 20 pages. Chapter 147 marked the start of the seventeenth Saga, and each Saga is basically a complete novel in its own right. Yeah, there's a '''lot''' of reading material here.