(if: $gowork is true) [You quit your job](else:)[[You go to work]].
(if: $friendsout is true)[Friends are no good](else:)[[You go out with friends]].
(if: $netflix is true) [Netflix hates you] (else:)[[You Netflix by yourself]].
(if: $surfnet is true) [The internet is poison] (else:)[[You surf the internet]].
(if: $youshop is true) [Shopping broke you] (else:)[[You shop]].
(if: $extext is true) [Your ex is ex for a reason](else:)[[You text your ex]].
(if: $yousleep is true) [ [[You're about to give up|You can't sleep anymore]] ](else:)[[You sleep]].
But you can't concentrate at work.
(click-append: "But you can't concentrate at work.")[
Your computer screen vibrates. The hard drive screams.]
(click-append: "Your computer screen vibrates. The hard drive screams.")[
You can't explain the real problem to your boss. You feel you've no choice but to [[quit|happening]].]
(set: $gowork to true)But good times feel suddenly dangerous.
(click-append: "But good times feel suddenly dangerous.") [
Coversations are filled with micro-aggressions only you seem to hear.]
(click-append: "Coversations are filled with micro-aggressions only you seem to hear.") [
Don't your friends know what [[happened|happening]]?]
(set: $friendsout to true)What happened happened.
(click-append: "What happened happened.") [
And yet, what happened is still [[happening]]. ]
At first Netflix takes your mind off things.
(click-append: "At first Netflix takes your mind off things.")[
Until that scene plays out on screen.]
(click-append: "Until that scene plays out on screen.")[
That scene gives you flashbacks. [[Netflix hates you|happening]].]
(set: $netflix to true)The internet isn't cooperating.
(click-append: "The internet isn't cooperating.")[
Where are the puppies? The cute cats?]
(click-append: "Where are the puppies? The cute cats?")[
The internet is trying to sell you shampoo when washing your hair is [[the last thing you want to do|happening]].]
(set: $surfnet to true) You will buy something nice, you think, something to cheer you up.
(click-append: "You will buy something nice, you think, something to cheer you up.")[
But what?]
(click-append: "But what?")[
And how? Your laptop's in the other room. Your phone feels too heavy to lift. [[No way you're going out|happening]].]
(set: $youshop to true)You push send on the ex text.
(click-append: "You push send on the ex text.")[
And OMG, what have you just done?]
(click-append: "And OMG, what have you just done?")[
You know they're going to respond.]
(click-replace: "respond.")[ send pics. You [[block their number fast|happening]].]
(set: $extext to true)You try to sleep again but all you have done is try to sleep and you [[can't sleep|happening]].
(click-append: "have")[ fucking]
(click-replace: "sleep")[ fucking sleep]
(set: $yousleep to true)You're about to give up when...
(click-append: "when...")[
Tell me.]
(click-append: "Tell me.") [
[[It's okay]].]What happened //happens//.
Though you try to [[get past it]].That's it.
(click-append: "That's it.")[
Exactly what you said.]
(click-append: "Exactly what you said.")[
That's the story of turning what //happens// into the story (text-style:"fade-in-out")[of what happened].]