hi.
[[hello]]
<<set $points to 0>>are you ready to start?
[[yes]]
[[no]]what are your pronouns?
[[she/her]]
you can't choose anything else because your character's gender is already set''game over''
because you were not ready :(
<<link "restart">><<restart<</link>>what's your name?
[[anna]]
same thing here. i already chose the name for your character.who do you like?
[[boys]]
[[girls]]
[[both]]too bad, because your love interest is a girl
[[continue]]
<<set $points to $points -1>>okay, cool.
[[continue]]okay, cool.
[[continue]]today is your first day at your new school.
[[okay]]wait you know what i changed my mind. you've been in this highschool for a while, but today is the day where someone else joins your school. but you don't know about that yet.
[[okay i guess...]]you wake up. it's a completely normal day outside.
[[get up]
[yaaay school!]]
[[i'm just going to go back to sleep...]]"$name wake up!!!" your mom yells from downstairs.
"my name is anna, not $name"
"yeah, whatever. just come downstairs already"
[[go downstairs]]you go downstairs. your mother screams, because the person who made this game has completely forgotten to have you put on clothes.
[[go back upstairs]]you go back upstairs and put your clothes on. then you go to the toilet. then you spray deodorant in your eyes.
[[aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh]]oh come on now it doesn't actually hurt that bad.
[[okay, i'll just go back downstairs]]you go back downstairs. your mother is holding a toast. you take it and your school bag or whatever and go to school. On the way there, you stuff it into your mouth.
[[arrive at school]]when you arrive at school, you're still chewing. jesus, how long does that one toast last??? and why does it taste so weird?
[[sit down]]you go into your classroom and sit down at your desk. then, you put your bag on the table to get your math book out.
[[oh no]]the toast is now on the table, and it dawns on you that you've just eaten your school bag.
[[oh god my bag what do i do now???]]you're mainly concerned about the book you brought with you to read during lunch break. but at least you still have your phone. you honestly don't even know why you brought a book in the first place, now that you think about it. but before you can really start panicking, a teacher comes into the classroom.
[[huh?]]wait a second... that's not your math teacher, mrs adams! this is a completely different teacher.
"hello class," she says. "i'm your substitute teacher for today."
all of a sudden, there's a knock on the door.
"oh yeah right, i completely forgot about this," she says. "well first, my name is mrs elderly. don't even ask me why, because honestly i have no idea."
she looks like she's relatively young, maybe like in her mid 20s or something like that.
but you think you still know why she's called that: it's because //someone// ran out of ideas for names.
[[okay wait a second]]the radio is on in the background and there's a song i really like running right now. i think i already missed one of those because of this game, so hang on.
(scroll down idiot)
ughhh okay great so i guess i still only really managed to fully enjoy like half of it because of this damn game.
[[uhhh... sorryyyyy i guess? even though it's really not my fault]]okay so where were we exactly?
okay great, so aaaaaanyway...
"there's a new student today!" mrs elderly says as she opens the door.
a girl comes in.
[[okay wow.]]oh damn, she's ''hot''!
"hiiiiiii, my name is emily!" she says.
immediately, she starts looking for an empty seat. unsurprisingly, because this is a romance story, the only empty seat is the one on your left. (your best friend, sarah, sits on your right)
[[introduce yourself]]
[[don't say anything]]"hi i'm anna," you say as she sits down next to you.
"hi," she says.
wow, what an interesting connversation.
"so, welcome to your meth class!" mrs elderly says. you look at emily. emily looks at you. and you're both thinking the exact same thing: what the fuck?
sarah raises her hand. "don't you mean math class, mrs elderly?"
[[she looks confused]]
<<set $points to $points +1>>you don't say anything.
...
...
...
...
...
...
"hi, what's your name?" emily asks you. "i'm anna," you say.
"so, welcome to your meth class!" mrs elderly says, rudely interrupting your "conversation".
sarah raises her hand. "don't you mean math class, mrs elderly?"
[[she looks confused]]"oh, wait... is that true?" she takes out her phone and looks for something on it. then, she looks back to the class. "well, looks like i read that wrong. but hey, now that i've already prepared a whole lesson on meth, we wouldn't want it to go to waste, right?
[[she starts the lesson.]]after the lesson ends, you go outside together with emily and sarah. "hey, do you wan to have lunch with us?" you ask emily. (it's technically only like 10 am, but hey, i get to decide what time it is, so it's lunch time now.)
"sure," she says, and the three of you go outside and sit at a table, because the wather is good. you all get out your lunchboxes, or at least emily and sarah do, while you remember that yours was in your bag. which you ate already.
"i already ate my lunchbox," you tell them. "but i still have my toast."
you take your toast, which was on your desk for the entire math... no, sorry, meth lesson, and finally stuff it in your mouth.
"hey, that doesn't seem like enough for lunch though..." emily says. "here, my mom always gives me way too much."
she has one of those lunchboxes instagram moms mahe, with heart shaped pancakes and lots of vegetables and raspberries and ramen noodles that she probably made herself because she's such a perfect mom. it takes you a while to notice the fact that emily is holding out chopsticks with ramen noodles to you.
[[eat them]]
[[nope]]you eat the noodles. they taste good.
emily takes the chopsticks and looks at you. but you're still relatively full (both from that toast and also from your school bag), so you shake your head.
she then puts the chopsticks into her mouth and eats the noodles herself.
i really shouldn't have written this before lunch. god now i want to eat that shit myself. (after writing this part and "testing" the game whenever i got the chance - don't worry, i'm just playing it normally, i won't fix anything i promise - i always read the "shit myself" part first without any context and then wonder when exactly i wrote something about shitting myself, lol.)
but yeah, what are you thinking?
[[damn, that tasted good though]]
[[she used the same chopsticks as i did? ew, gross]]
''game over''
because you weren't romantic enough and i'm too lazy to write a whole nonlinear slow burn storyline :(
<<link "restart">><<restart<</link>>sarah is looking at you and emily. after emily is done and goes to the toilet, sarah keans over to you. "i ship it."
[[me too]]
[[what?! who?!]]
[[uhhh, no thanks]]no, it's //romantic//.
[[go back|eat them]]sarah smiles at you. then, emily comes back from the toilet. you look at sarah, who nods at you encouragingly.
[[emilyithinkyourereallyhotpleasemarrymeifyousayyourestraightimgonnacry]]
[[don't say anything|nothing 2]]
<<set $points to $points +1>>sarah laughs. "you and emily!"
[[have a panic attack]]
[[why???]]
<<set $points to $points -1>>''game over''
you were supposed to say yes idiot :(
<<link "restart">><<restart<</link>>you have a panic attack.
[[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]]sarah looks at you.
"because you have a crush on her, idiot."
you blush.
[[maybe, but just a small one, really... i mean, maybe a medium sized one... okay i absolutely love her|me too]]emily smiles. she is still just standing there, saying nothing.
[[wait a second...|what exactly is she doing?]]
<<set $points to $points +1>>emily looks on you.
you look back at her.
eventually, sarah finally says something.
"hey there emily, anna wants to marry you"
"no shut up i don't," you say.
emily smiles.
[[what exactly is she doing?]]sarah is watching you.
"are you done yet?"
"one second," you say.
[[aaaaaaahhhh]]you flop down on the grass.
"so... there's nothing going on?" sarah asks
[[aaaaahh]]"no, nothing, why?" you ask
sarah stays silent, probably to avoid giving you another panic attack.
"okay, maybe a little bit"
[[only a little bit though i swear|me too]]emily kisses you, and you just stare at her.
"soooo, how was i?" she asks. "this was actually my first time ever kissing anyone."
"that felt super good! you're so cool! i can't believe that was your first time doing this!!!!!!!!"
"well actually..." she says, "that was just a joke. i've kissed people before. i honestly highly doubt my first kiss was that good, or that it was good at all. i feel like whenever someone had their first kiss with me, they had no idea what to do. i've been told before that i'm pretty good at kissing, though."
you can now confirm that she is.
you've never kissed anyone before, but now you're kind of starting to wonder if you'd be any good at kissing...
"do you think i could kiss you and it would feel that good?"
[[emily sighs.]]"i literally just told you that first kisses, aren't good, come on now anna. did you even listen to me?"
huh, that's actually kind of a good question though. soooooooooo, do you completely read through long passages, or do you just skim them, or do you read literally nothing and just say "fuck it"?
[[huh? what? oh shit sorry i wasn't reading this passage was too long for me, so i, being the impatient person that i was, decided to just click on the links without even reading it]]emily is still staring at you, and you realize that you still haven't answered her question.
"yeah, of course i was listening," you say. "i was just... curious. i think i didn't get the full experience the first time, so..."
[[kiss her]]you kiss emily.
"oh, wow," she says afterward. "you were good!"
"what, really?" you're very happy to hear that.
"nahhh," emily says. "i was just kidding. i've had better kisses before. basically all of them, honestly. no offense though."
[[you see sarah staring at you]]you and emily both notice that one at the same time.
"you just kissed!!!" sarah says. she seems shocked.
[[yep, we sure did]]the rest of the school day goes without any further interruptions, and so does... just the rest of the day in general.
when you wake up the next day, you realize that it's actually already saturday.
[[yaaaaaay it's the weekend]]at this point, i no longer have any new ideas for this game. but does that mean that i'm going to stop? no, it just means that the game is probably going to progressively get even worse than it already is, and has been the whole time.
you decide to call emily, but then you realize that you never asked her for her phone number. so instead of doing that, you text sarah to ask her if she has emily's number. then, you go to the toilet and get dressed (because i'm not making that mistake again), and then you go downstairs to have breakfast.
after having breakfast, you just sit around, being bored.
[[check your phone]]help me i don't know what to put in here but the sidebar just looks so empty without anything in itjust as a quick warning, this game is going to get very boring now because i'm very boring and i have no idea what else i'm supposed to do.
you check your phone to see that sarah has replied to your text.
"yeah i do, it's [insert phone number here]"
huh? wtf does she mean by [insert phone number here]?
[[ask her]]you ask her and she says "whoops, sorry" and sends you emily's real phone number, on which you call her.
"hiiiii emily, it's me, anna, i was wondering if you wanted to hang out?"
"sure," she says. "but i don't have time today, so how about tomorrow?"
"okay," you say. "do you have time at 10?"
"i mean it's a sunday but i guess i can get up early..."
"okay, then i'd say we can meet at my house?"
"yeah, where do you live?"
[[send her your adress]]you send emily your adress.
"btw, can sarah come with us?" you text her an hour or so later because you completely forgot that saeah might also want to come and hang out with you guys.
"yeah, sure," emily replies after just a few seconds. you tell sarah that she can come and hang out with you tomorrow.
"you're a fucking idiot this could have been a date!" she says.
"oh, so you're not coming with us?" you reply.
"well, now i'm curious what you guys are gonna do, so of course i'm coming with you now," she says.
after you texted sarah, you decide to do something else: be bored.
[[be bored]]you finally stop being bored and decide do do something instead.
[[do something]]you decide that it's time for you to finally do something fun.
[[play video games]]
[[read a book]]
[[go to sleep]]<<if $custompc is 1>> insert video game playing line thingy here
<<else>>okay but first, what exactly does your pc look like?
[[customize your pc!]]<</if>>
[[go back|do something]]what color is your pc? <<cycle "$pccolor">><<option "black">><<option "white">><<option "pink">><<option "purple">><<option "red">><<option "rainbow colors!!!!">><</cycle>>
(click to cycle through options)
what color is your keyboard? <<cycle "$keyboardcolor">><<option "black">><<option "white">><<option "pink">><<option "purple">><<option "red">><<option "rainbow colors!!!!">><</cycle>>
(click to cycle through options... again)
is there anything special about your pc? you have <<cycle "$special">><<option "those fancy custom key caps you can buy on etsy">>><<option "post-its with your homework on them so you don't forget about it">><<option "nothing :(">><</cycle>>
(click to cycle through - you know what fuck it, if you don't already get it by now then i can't help you)
<<set $custompc to 1>>
[[confirm]]so, you have a <<print $pccolor>> pc with a <<print $keyboardcolor>> keyboard and <<print $special>> as an extra?
[[yes|yes 2]]
[[no, wait a second!|customize your pc!]]okay, great! that's a very cool pc!
[[thank you :)]]Okay, now go play some video games
[[play video games]]you read a book.
[[do something else|do something]]you decide to go to sleep.
[[wake up]]you wake up the next day at 9:50.
oh shit, emily and sarah are coming at 10! which means that they'll probably already be here in like 10 to 20 minutes! (sarah's always a bit late)
[[get ready very quickly]]you get ready and are, unrealistically, already downstairs and eating breakfast by the time emily and sarah come, which is at 10:03.
"hiii, are you ready to go?" emily asks you.
"yeah, of course!" you say and quickly grab your phone and keys before going outside with them.
[[take the bus into the city]]you, sarah and emily take the bus to your favorite cafe.
[[go in]]you are now inside of the cafe.
[[get sonething to eat]]you all get a cute little piece of cake and then eat it. it tastes good, even though you're disappointed that emily didn't offer you any of hers this time. you all pay and then go back outside.
[[be outside]]you are outside. what do you want to do?
[[go to the cafe again|go in]]
[[go shopping]]
[[talk to sarah]]
[[talk to emily]]
<<if $points is -2 or $points is -1 or $points is 0 or $points is 1 or $points is 2 or $points is 3>>[[go back home]]<<else>>[[go back home|home2]]<</if>>you find some pretty clothes to buy, and so does emily. sarah finds... clothes to buy.
[[talk to sarah|sarah2]]
[[talk to emily|emily2]]
[[go back outside|be outside]]"heyy, i'm having fun but i really think you should go talk to emily," sarah says.
[[go back|be outside]]you walk up to emily when you realize that you don't even kniw that much about her.
[[try to get to know her better]]
[[talk about the weather]]
[[go back|be outside]]
<<set $emily to 1>>"okay, i think i'm going to catch the bus back home now," you say.
"wait, aren't you forgetting something?" sarah asks you.
"what?" you reply. you don't know what sarah is talking about.
"ask her out on a date!" sarah whispers in your ear.
oh. of course. that's what she's talking about.
"uhhhhh, emily..." you say. "so, today was nice. and... i'd love to do something with you again in a few days. maybe we could watch a movie or something like that? just the two of us?"
emily looks at you, apparently a bit confused. "you mean, like a date? i'm sorry anna, but i just don't like you like that. did you think so because of that whole kissing thing? that was only supposed to be a joke..."
[[oh.]]you try to find something nice to say about sarah's new outfit, but fail. after a while of you just standing there, staring at her and doing nothing, you finally say something.
"i think maybe i'm gonna go talk to emily."
[[talk to emily|emily2]]
[[go back outside|be outside]]"hey, the clothes you picked look pretty cool! not that it would make a difference though, anything looks cool on you," you say to emily. she blushes a little bit.
"oh... really? you think so? well... i think you look pretty cool too!"
[[go back outside|be outside]]
<<set $points to $points +2>>
<<set $emily2 to 1>>you talk to emily for what seems like hours. you find out that she has a dog called bitch, that she's a virgo, and also that she really likes tomato soup.
[[go back|be outside]]
<<set $points to $points +1>>"so, the weather's been awfully... normal lately, hasn't it?"
emily gives you a weird look.
"okay, byee," you say and quickly walk away backwards.
[[go back|be outside]]
<<set $points to $points -1>>the end.
''you were friendzoned.''"okay, i think i'm going to catch the bus back home now," you say.
"wait!" emily says. "do you maybe want to... hang out again soon? like... just the two of us?"
"you mean like... a date?" you ask.
"yeah," emily says.
you smile, and you can see sarah giving you a thumbs up behind emily's back.
"of course, i'd love to."
[[yaaaaay!]]the end.
''you have succeeded in your quest of getting a date with emily.''