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

[dropoffs]

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[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...]

[verminous]

I'm fine, I'm just- really hungry, that's all-

[definitely not having teen problems!!]

Sooo when's the date.

[expiries]

You sure? Come on, we're friends. You can tell me.

[pausing]

Tomorrow, I think?

[verminous]

Damn, Harley moves fast.

[soup, while he tries to move past that question.]

You've probably got... preparing to do, or something, yeah?

[expiries]

...Do I? I mean, it's just lunch.

[verminous]

...don't you?

[shit he definitely sounds like he doesn't know what he's talking about]

[expiries]

[oh no]

Oh my god. Do I? I mean - like, should I bring her something I cooked myself, or...?

[once more in pain

[verminous]

What? No, don't do that! What if she's allergic.

[we SUFFER]