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

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[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]

[sup]

What's up?

[verminous]

Nothing! How'd it go-

[hi rescue him]

[riverbeans]

[Feel free to tag among yourselves, Charles is just shutting up now as Anise leans forward in anticipation of Arthur's news.]

[expiries]

I mean, um... Fine? You know that girl named Harley in some of our classes?

[verminous]

Yeah? Is that who it was from?

[deet them.]

[expiries]

Yeah. She - said she wanted to go out, so I said maybe we could grab lunch sometime? It's not a big deal or anything.

[i'm slowly dying]

[verminous]

What do you mean, not a big deal- you have a date, right?

[trust me so am i]

First one, or what.

[expiries]

Uh - you mean with her? Yeah.

[no shit arthur. i refuse to think about whether he's dated anyone else in this au]

[verminous]

Well- yeah, obviously it's the first one with her, I mean-- guess you've probably had others by now...

[we're not thinking about it]

But, uh- congrats!

[expiries]

I mean, there was that guy from science class, I guess...

[j/k i'm establishing this detail only because i refuse to be assigned het in this cyoa i won't be controlled]

Thanks, man. Really.

[verminous]

You never mentioned... ah, right, so that's-- maybe you were right about it not being as big a deal to you. I mean, not a big deal.

[eating soup but faster bc he's happy for you but he has got to shut the fuck up]

[expiries]

...You okay, Gregor?

[is he having... teen problems...]

[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.]