Life is Strange: The Art of Love

Chapter 2 of my Life is Strange story, enjoy.

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Episode 1 Something Different

Chapter 2

Steph bit her lip as she made her way to class; she was actually amazed by herself and what she had managed to do.

'I...I finally did it, I finally made my move.' Steph thought to herself hopefully. 'I just gotta make sure I keep my nerve and when at the concert...I tell the truth.'

Sitting at her desk she grinned to herself. The truth was she had a crush on Rachel Amber. She had been crushing on her for a while, but it was only now she found the courage to make a move. She knew Rachel was a fan of Firewalk and then she found out about Firewalk holding a concert and the idea came to her.

She reflected on how her plan had gone so far as she got what she needed from her bag. 'I did it, I got the tickets, had to get three, I didn't want to be too obvious. That's why I gave Rachel two and asked her to invite someone else'

She expected Rachel to simply invite one of her friends, even if it was one of her popular crowd friends, Steph could cope with that.

'They'll hopefully be too distracted by the concert to notice me making a move on Rachel. I just...I can't believe she actually accepted...this is working far better than I could've imagined.' Steph thought hopefully. 'Now I just need to figure out...how to approach the subject.'

She just hoped that Rachel would understand and, even if she didn't return Steph's feelings, it didn't affect things between them too much.

Leaving her class after lunch, a teenage girl with brown hair down to just past her shoulders, brown eyes and pale skin was biting her lip. She was a skinny girl, clad in dark jeans with a green long sleeved shirt with thin dark blue stripes and white sneakers.

'I don't understand it, what's been happening, I don't...it's been so long since.' She thought to herself.

The girl's name was Samantha Myers and she was thinking about her friend, Nathan Prescott. Nathan was the son of rich businessman Sean Prescott, a man who treated Nathan horribly. Sam had done her best to be Nathan's friend; to try and help him. Give him something else to focus on, instead of his father's treatment. It had brought them close but lately, the opposite was happening.

'I've hardly seen Nathan these days...ever since, ever since...he began hanging out with those, popular crowd people.' Sam noted to herself. 'Surely he wouldn't, he's not that sort of person. He can't have just, decided to end up as yet another Vortex Club initiate...'

The very thought of it disappointed her; but she wasn't sure that it felt right to just judge like that, despite everything she'd already heard. She especially didn't want to believe Nathan would fall into something like that.

Even as she reflected on this, she felt her face heat up and suppressed a groan; trying to make sure her blush was hidden.

'God, I'm doing it again. I can't stop myself.' She thought, embarrassed.

Lately her friendship with Nathan, at least on her side, had been developing into something more. She had developed a crush on the young man; as a result it had made the few times she and Nathan were talking to each other rather awkward.

Shaking her head and hoping this time would be different, Sam retrieved her phone and tried to call Nathan. The phone rang and rang until it ended with no answer. Sam ended the call and sighed sadly, disappointed and lost. They hadn't spoken in a week and she had to admit, she found it weird and upsetting.

Rachel bit her lip as she looked at the tickets she held in her hands.

'That was quite a generous move by Steph. I had no idea she even liked Firewalk.' She reflected. 'This extra ticket, I know who to give it to...but how do I...'

She didn't want to make things too obvious, after all, despite all her confidence, as usual, around Chloe, she wasn't her usual self. She wasn't her usual confident self.

She sighed. 'I don't get, every time I see Chloe I feel strange, I know I'm crushing on her but...it feels like I'm...I just feel like I want her to know the real me, yet still want to impress her.'

It left her conflicted; she couldn't help but be shy. It was ridiculous, she was the most popular girl in school; even if she didn't want to be sometimes, yet around Chloe, she felt invisible, or a nobody. Yet Chloe was the one who was ostracised in school, treated like an outcast.

'Chloe is something special, she has her problems, but who doesn't. Yet nobody bothers to actually see her, just...' She thought sadly.

She knew full well that these were just her views. But still, she was trying to focus and yet she couldn't, so caught up with her feelings for Chloe.

She had a thought suddenly; her plans for the tickets, her thoughts about Chloe, they suddenly melded into one as a plan came to her.

'That's it, of course, Chloe loves Firewalk, Steph told me to use the spare ticket to invite a friend.' She realized. 'I can slip the ticket into her locker...invite her anonymously...then just "bump into her" there. It might be a good chance.'

Smiling widely Rachel pocketed her own ticket and decided to take her chance now. Nobody else was around, so she carefully made her way down the corridor towards Chloe's locker. Looking around to make sure nobody could see her and therefore ruin the surprise, she stopped by Chloe's locker. She looked down at the Firewalk ticket in her hand and prayed her plan would work.

'This is my best chance to know Chloe, to finally get to know the girl that I've been crushing on for so long.' She thought to herself.

With that she slipped the ticket in through the gap between the locker and the frame and smiled to herself as she left. The first step was complete, now she just needed to wait for Chloe to find the ticket and wait for the right moment.

Chloe let out a yawn as she trudged through the school corridors to her locker.

'Urgh finally, another day done...' She thought to herself.

As usual school had been boring and lonely, but she truly didn't care anymore. It was over, now she could get out of here and get home.

She shook her head as she prepared to open her locker. 'I just wanna get home and have a smoke already, maybe something a little stronger than my regular smokes.'

As she thought this she opened the door of the locker and spotted something that immediately grabbed her attention. There, on top of her books, was a ticket. She picked it up as she put the rest of her books in the locker and closed it.

"What the…?" She muttered. 'A...A concert ticket?'

She looked at it carefully and her eyes widened. It was a ticket to a Firewalk concert that would be held a few nights from now.

'Who the hell would slip a Firewalk concert ticket into my locker. Huh, a note?' She wondered as she spotted a note attached to the ticket. 'Someone really wants me to come to the concert...But who would-? Urgh, fuck it, I'm not gonna pass up a chance to see Firewalk live.'

So, grinning to herself she slipped the ticket in her pocket and hurried to make her way out of school, ready to leave and get home.

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