Noelle my darling I'm not sure you're even fooling Susie at this point

I don't ever think about you
Don't buy anything you hear
[...]
I don't have any pictures of you
Still saved in folders on my phone
And since I'm never thinking of you
I'm doing wonderful alone
[...]
It's definitely my decision
I'm not missing anything at all

estrangedness! yearning! christmas!!

also it's soooo fucking cute how noelle calls them "merry krismas" in that one scene

Tell me, baby, do you recognize me?
It's been a year, you know it doesn't surprise me
Merry Christmas, I wrapped it up and sent it
Merry Christmas, I loved you and I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now, I know you'd fool me again

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

But if there's something between you and me
Baby, I have no time for it
I'm happy not knowing
And please don't stir it up
I'm sure it's nothing but some heartburn, baby
And I'm happy not knowing
Where this goes
How this goes
If this goes
Well, I'm happy not knowing

Tropes? Yeah I like 'weirdo childhood friends to "what the fuck is our relationship"'. This song just gives me that kind of feeling!

I'm also very fond of the idea that Kris does fit Noelle's type ("the good kind of scary") but she barely realises this because she finds them hard to read and the two of them have too much baggage.

Well, it was nice to see you again
I know you won't text or anything, I know what you're like
Hot and cold, hit and miss, up and down
And a bit of a prick really
I could argue that you're nice
Um, actually, you're kinda my type
But you are takin' the piss...

When you're lonely
Do you stare outside your window like I do?
Do you remember how we
Used to go to Denny's after school?

And I
I would tell you that I loved you so much
But the problem is
I didn't even know what love was, no

So please wait
I was too young to know back then
So give me another chance again
Now that I've changed I know that we'll be better
Better, this round

But I'm so used to saying
"I'm fine"
And then something that you did to hurt me last year comes to me
Despite those times
One day I just wanna hear you say
"I like you"

What's stopping you?
What's stopping you?

Kris distancing themselves due to guilt and maybe also a little bit of a complex about being human

I guess you'll never know, I'm not hangin' with ya
I'm not hangin' with ya, I'm not hangin' with ya
I guess you'll never know why, I'm not hangin' with ya
I'm not hangin' with ya, I'm not hangin' with ya

It's the same old you, the same old me
Except you're everythin' I can't be
Except I get wanderin' eyes
It looks much better on the side of your street
[...]
I can't talk to you anymore
Speak to you anymore
Hang with you anymore

Tension
Between us just like picket fences
You got issues that I won't mention for now
'Cause we're fallin' apart
[...]
Passionate from miles away
Passive with the things you say
Passin' up on my old ways
I can't blame you, no

And 'cause we all chew gum, we all have fun with water guns
La-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-dum-dum-dum
Then we all grew up, shit got tough, shit just wasn't simple enough, no
[...]
And whenever the sun came out, we played
(We didn't want to get older, we didn't want to get older)
We would run on the block all night and day
(We didn't want to get older, we didn't want to get older)
And whenever the sun came out, we played
(We didn't want to get older, we didn't want to get older)
I left myself in the alleyway

(That's right. 9 whole songs of angst before we even deal with chapter 2 lmfao!!!)

No Triple Trucies

I could never leave you and the city lights
I could never beat the storm in your eyes
The storm in your bright eyes

All alone in the danger zone
Are you ready to take my hand?

Because this song mentions a kitchen I associate it with Kris being back in the Holiday house in chapter 4 idk

We grew apart when you were fighting with your sister
I don't think I realised how horribly I miss you now
Regret is flowering inside me while I'm scooping ice
[...]
I remember there was something strangely romantic
In our friendship, we were dramatic
[...]
Hope you know that I, I just don't know what to do
'Cause I only want to be with you

"I always missed, um... liked hearing you play the piano."

"Even then, with my eyes open, there were times when I wasn't even sure if we were friends.
But when I closed my eyes,
it felt like a concert just for me."

And I, I try to forget about
The constant war that rages on inside my soul
I know that I can't - I could never forget it all
I never could escape that soothing melody
[...]
There's no words that could hope to find this thing explained
So why don't we just listen to the keys and strings?

And it feels like I just found a way
'Cause in my darkest hour I hear that music play
And suddenly the world and its toil disappear
When the rhythm and chords fill my ears