W3 🛸 PLAYER CYOA: SEVENTEEN AGAIN (JAN) 🚀 ARTHUR & GREGOR

[dropoffs]

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[verminous]

[looking back at charles like Oh Shit]

C'mon, open it-

[expiries]

[glancing between the letter and the both of them...]

I - no way. I mean, it can't be, right?

[looking at this letter like the very embarrassed high school student he most definitely is]

[riverbeans]

[Anise chants from behind Arthur,] Open it, open it... [Will Arthur open it? Other students are starting to glance their way because what are you all doing.]

[verminous]

She's just gonna keep going until you do. Probably louder. Think you're going to have to do it, Arthur.

[expiries]

Okay, okay, just—

[trying to duck around a corner or something away from the other students who are starting to look their way before he opens it.]

[riverbeans]

[







Yeah, it's a love letter. The letter says, I have something I want to tell you. Can you meet in the school courtyard during lunchtime?

Charles, unhelpfully, lets out a low whistle.]

[verminous]

...so are you gonna go, or-?

[he's short he's probably leaning on charles rn]

[expiries]

Shut up.

[that was to charles, but he's also kind of flipping the letter around to make sure that it's unsigned before responding to gregor]

I, I mean - maybe? Maybe they want to talk to me about something completely different.

[verminous]

Sure, it's something different and they just only had heart stickers left...

[come on, man.]

[riverbeans]

[I'm just here to say that Charles is letting Gregor lean on him and he and Anise are being very unhelpful in this situation. Well, unhelpful from Arthur's perspective, probably.]

[expiries]

You never know!

[but yes okay he will plan on meeting this mystery person... scandalous...]

[verminous]

Better tell us when you find out, all right?

[nudging charles and anise-]

We'll, uh... we'll give you a little privacy, so. You just go right ahead.

[yeah.]

[riverbeans]

What? But I wanted to see the juicy go—I mean, be there as moral support for Arthur!

[Charles nudges her as well.] C'mon, little miss. You know he'll get stage fright if he knows you're there. [He and Anise (one of them more reluctantly than the other) will follow Gregor to the cafeteria. Anise has a homemade lunch from her parents, but Charles will join Gregor in line to buy something from the menu.

Meanwhile, Arthur scandalously meets the sender of this letter... A girl is waiting there, whom he'll recognize as someone in his grade. They haven't spoken much.

When she sees Arthur, she smiles.]

Hey, Arthur, you came! Sooo... I like you. Wanna go out?

[verminous]

[hell yeah let's go get lunch while arthur deals with this and we wait for `gossip`. the immersion... a whole menu... it's a soup kind of day, he thinks. definitely soup.

he's probably just listening to charles and anise talk more than anything for now, though, staying mostly quiet himself.]

[riverbeans]

[Charles gets the vegetarian chili. Wow, wonder why.

Anyway, he and Anise do talk for a bit, chatterboxes as they are, but after a while, Charles looks at Gregor.]

Everything okay, Gregor? Your food not agreeing with you?

[verminous]

Huh? Nah, I'm fine, I was just... doing those forms earlier made me start thinking about doing applications eventually, that's all.

[definitely just lost in thought about. university applications. a thing gregor famously cares about here.]

[riverbeans]

... If you say so. But hey, you know you can talk to us about anything, right? No judgment.

Yeah! Besides, even if you bomb those applications too, it'll work out. Probably.

[verminous]

Don't say that like you think I have something I should talk about, Charles...

[come on. he's doing so good at this right now. (he's not.)]

[riverbeans]

All right, all right... [Arthur, conveniently or inconveniently, joins them at this moment.]

[expiries]

[pausing as he walks and sees this definitely high school aged girl, blushing a little bit (i hate it here)]

You do? [!!] Wow. Thanks. I'm - kind of surprised, honestly. I mean, not that it's a bad thing! What do you, um... I mean, I guess I didn't realize we knew each other that well.

[even in this au he sucks]

[riverbeans]

[ARTHUR CAN BLUSH?]

We don't, but I've been watching you. In, like, a non-stalkery way. But I've seen you around, and well, I think you're hot—but also, you seem like a fun guy to be with?

[expiries]

[in this high school student au that i've been cursed with i am delivering curses back to you as i continue spiraling]

Whoa. Um - thanks! Yeah, um... Maybe we can get lunch sometime or something?

[riverbeans]

[WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.

Harley does not think that. She just seems delighted at his answer.]

Yeah, sounds great! I'll come meet you at your classroom if I wanna grab you—or you can come to mine. I won't keep you from your friends today, though. [Wow... Arthur got a date.]

[expiries]

[i refuse to be blamed for this]

Okay. Cool. I mean, great! Um, see you then.

[riverbeans]

[Go meet up with your friends at lunch.]