By the time I got home the sun was starting to set. A quick stop by a well known and often used convenience store had netted me all the goods Id need for a few more days. I went about putting away the groceries as I tried to get my thoughts in line. Ever since leaving campus my mind had been reeling, constantly going over what Kyu had said to me earlier today. Which girls to pursue, who to spend more time with, who to… go all the way with. They all had their charms, even Audrey despite being a mega bitch drew me in. I wanted to experience more of all of them, get to really know them, one hell of a task to get done. The sound of snapping fingers brought me to attention and I looked up to see Kyu floating in front of me.
"You really know how to pick um Kyu, a loser and a cronic space case. Perfect." She said sarcastically, before flopping down on the bed next to me. I must have wondered over and sat down without even realizing it. "So what is it your thinking about this time player?" She asked before reaching under my bed and pulling out a dirty magazine. Gotta hide those better.
"Trying to decide what girls I should commit to." I moaned out as I slid my hands across my face.
"Why do you gotta make things so complicated player. Your a lucky guy, there isn't a bad choice in the bunch." She wasn't wrong, Aiko was funny and charming, Keyanna had a competitive side I really liked, I just felt a natural connection with Nikki since we were both rather reclusive.
"There's those chocolate mounds of Lola's and I don't know the last time I saw a perkier pair of tits then Tiffany's" Kyu started rattling off a much different list than my own… she wasn't wrong though. "And the cream of the crop Jessie Maye, lucky devil you." I just let out a groan. After agonizing over the situation for longer than I'd like to admit I finally decided to do something, the one thing I knew how to do at least. I sat up on the edge of my bed placed my hands together and began to meditate. Breath in, one, two, three, four, breathe out. One, two, three, four… I entered my state of focus and I began running through the last few days.
The first thing that I thought about was Kyu. She seemed to have caught on to what I was doing and seemed content to let me focus for now, I'll have to thank her for that… and a lot of other things. Slowly I shifted over to the girls, first Aiko, then Beli, Jessie, Lola, Niki, Audrey, Keyano and finally Tiffany. All had their strong points, all were amazing, better than I deserved. After a moment it dawned on me that I couldn't make this decision myself, I needed some extra input. A new perspective. But first I had to handle the fairy. I stood up letting my focus go and giving my body a nice stretch.
"Hey Kyu" I said getting her attention. She rodlled over on my bed to face me a smile on her face.
"Finally! So who's the lucky one gonna be?" At least someone was excited.
"Before I get to that, I owe you a thank you Kyu." I hadn't seen her make that face yet. It was a mix of pissed off and confusion. Neat. "I was about to lose my home, I had no idea what I was doing with my life and I had barely talked to a girl properly before you came around. Now things couldn't be better, I'm making good money, have purpose and that purpose is to meet beautiful woman. I'm just really thankful you're in my life right now, so thanks Kyu, you're a bitch but I don't know what I would be doing right now without you." I wandered over to the kitchen grabbing a fresh beer out of the fridge. Kyu was… processing I guess. She was blushing her whole face a lovely shade of pink and she was just floating still in the middle of the room. I bent down and pulled a freshly chilled bottle of beer out of the fridge. By the time I had opened it up and taken a sip Kyu was coming back to her senses. I reached back in and got one out for her as well, as she floated my way.
"What was that about player?" She sounded more mad than pleased, maybe even a bit flustered.
"I just realized I owe a lot to you, a proper thanks was in order is all." I opened up the new beer and handed it to her. "We're partners after all right? Only right I should thank you." I handed her the beer and casualty clanked the end of mine against hers. After the quick toast I threw back the rest of my drink before heading back over to the bed eager to get back to work. Kyu chugged her drink regaining the rest of her composure before floating over by the bed. I took a seat and was about to get back to it when Kyu spoke up.
"So this is the plan for the rest of the night huh?" I nodded not really knowing what else to do. "Well if that's the case I'm gonna bail for now, there's some paperwork I need to do, or at least get someone else to do for me." I cocked an eyebrow at her rather confused. "What you think magic is all snapping fingers and sparkles, never forget player no matter what you do in life red tape is gonna be everywhere." She began rubbing her temples getting ready for what was ahead. "I'll stop by in the morning, until then shout if you need me." And with that she was gone, in a pink poof of sparkles that left the room smelling of strawberries. I took a deep breath letting my body fully relax as I reached for the Hunniebee. I opened it up only to fall back on my bed with a yell as the color pink personified exploded back into the room. "One more thing player" Kyu started as I tried to hold back from having a heart attack. "You better have a plan by tomorrow or we're doing things my way, got it." I simply nodded as my pimp looked down at me a wicked smile on her face. "Great, toodles" and with a suddenly warm smile and a snap she was gone again.
I took a minute to calm myself down before reaching for the hunniebee again. I opened it up and looked over the girls from the past few days. Time for a change in perspective and hopefully some new ideas, and where better to start then the begining. I opened up Aiko's profile and hit the pink heart. I let the magic overwhelm me and soon enough I was Ferris again. I gave my body a stretch letting out a groan as I settled into the old form. It had been a few days but it still felt just as comfortable. I settled back into position and began to meditate. It took a bit longer then normal to settle in, my mind seemed to work a bit differently now, more bouncy and erratic. I tried to focus on my feelings but soon came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be that simple. The problem seemed simple to Ferris, he liked Aiko and wanted to see her again. The other girls simply held no interest to him, no matter how gorgeous. I wasn't going to get anywhere like this but I didn't want this to be a complete waste either. Time to switch my focus. Instead of figuring out mine and Ferris's feelings, let's figure out Ferris. If i'm going to be spending time like this, it would be good to know more about… myself I guess. I started to run down everything I remember about this… let's just call them… I need a name for these guys, later.
His name was Ferris Braxton. He was an inventor. He had an odd love of loud Hawaiian shirts and corny jokes. He… was a man of insurmountable passion for the things he loves but also great apathy for things that don't interest him. His deep love of cheesecake and dislike of exercise had left him with a bit of a gut over the years. He had worked on a bit of everything starting with design and creation of some toys to recently moving to working on large scale mechanical work, but had hit a snag lately. I focused in on his latest work, seeing pieces move and turn, words and ideas I couldn't fully comprehend floating through my mind. Suddenly it all clicked and for a second I had something. I stood up breaking my focus and ran to my desk. I pulled out a pencil and slammed it into the paper, my hand moving fast as lightning. After what felt like an eternity. I was looking at what seemed to be some sort of art piece… no a new design my mind told me. My mind pounded as I examined it, struggling, as it both completely understood and had no clue about what it was looking at. I pulled my eyes away as I tried to relax. The book shelf next to my desk once neatly filled with school books and notebooks,was now cluttered with drawing pads, rolled up parchment in tubes and a whole new selection of books. My desk had changed too. What once was a simple flat top was now a sloped drawing board. I looked around the room and found everything else the same. "The fuck…" Was all I could say before the pain in my skull suddenly increased. I let out a scream and a grunt as I flopped onto the floor my original self taking form again. After about a minute or so the pain disappeared and I got to my feat. That was way more intense and a lot less useful than I hoped. I did learn quite a bit though, just not at all what I wanted. I sat back down, at what was once again my normal desk, and took jotted down some notes on the… substitute known as Ferris. With a sigh I picked up the Hunniebee and went back to the bed. "Maybe Jacob can provide some better insight." I sat back down, only to notice I'd spent about an hour as Ferris, about half of it at the design table. I also noticed a set of notifications. Text messages from someone. I opened them up to see that Beli and Keyana had messaged me.
Kyana ⇒ Hey I know this is a little sudden but my regular jogging partner cancelled on me this week. I was wondering if you'd like to sub in?
Beli ⇒ Hello! I hope you are doing well. I just realized I had never told you when my classes take place. I've attached a schedule, I hope to see you there :)
I stared at those text messages for what felt like eternity. A smirked worked its way onto my face as an idea took shape. "Kyus gonna be pissed." I got out the Hunniebee ready to get down to work. I was lucky, the night was still young, I had a lot to do.
The beeping alarm rattled my consciousness. I groaned and worked my way towards it looking forward to hitting the snooze button and grabbing just a few more precious minutes of sleep. I finally wrapped my hand around the infernal machine only to feel it slide away from my grip.
"Pesky bugger is on the run again" I mumbled as I reached out for it again only to have the same thing occur, this time with an adorable giggling sound. Ahhh right… bitch fairy, I thought to myself. I sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes awake. A grinning and sparkling pink fairy floated nearby her finger wrapped around the cord on my alarm.
"Morning player, hope you have some good news for me." She said as she reached out and finally silenced the blasted alarm. I cracked the kinks out of my neck as I stood up and moved to the kitchen.
"I have several dates lined up over the next few days Kyu, nothing to worry about." a cheer was my reward for finally doing something she was happy with.
"That a boy, I knew you had it in you. So who're the lucky girls?" I finished pouring a bowl of cereal and sat down at the kitchen table my notebook open and a pencil on hand.
"All of them." I casually said as I started in on breakfast. Ahhh sweet silence I never thought I could miss you so much. I ate a few more spoonfuls in peace as I started looking through my notes from last night.
"You did what!" Kyu screeched as she rushed over to me. She was red in the face, or was that just a really dark pink? Her green eyes bore into me as I swallowed my bite and got ready to explain myself.
"So I came to a realization last night Kyu." I said trying to keep my cool.
"Ohh did you? Was it anything like the realization I'm having right now? The one about making horrible life choices? It fucking better be player." Assuming I live through this I gotta say she was pretty cute when mad.
"Kyu please let me explain, if you don't like what I have to say you can go ahead and take the magic back or whatever it is you can do to punish me. Maybe magic jail? I really don't know?" She seemed to simmer down a bit as she took a breath and let the natural color return to her face.
"This better be good player" her arms folded across her chest as she tapped her foot in mid air. I took a deep breath. Well here goes nothing.
"So last night after trying a few things to come to a conclusion I was no closer then when I started. Then suddenly I found I had two text message from some of the girls I met. It kind of made me realize I wasn't just picking who to try to date, I was picking who to abandon, that didn't sit right with me. I felt that who ever I didn't see again, I'd just leave wanting and that sucks. I've been that person plenty, I don't want to do it to anyone else. So I decided i'd much rather try, and work hard, and plan, and hope this all goes well then leave one of them with nothing. So I'm gonna try to make it work, gonna try to make everyone happy and that includes you." With that I actually got a blush out of her and she seemed to have calmed down considerably. "After all if this goes well we're both sure to make a killing right?" In an instant she lost the blush but kept the grin that had creeped onto her face. She slapped me across the back knocking the wind out of me.
"Damn player you should have told me you were a gambling man. All right I'm in, when's your first date?" There couldn't be a lot of people, let alone fairies, who could swing moods as easy as her, and I was starting to get used to it; great.
"It's later today so we have some time to relax." I said as I started to clean up and put everything away from breakfast. I was glad Kyu was happy, ment I might be able to keep this going a little bit longer. The fact that she had dug out another dirty magazine showed she was back to normal. I picked up my notebook and sat down at my desk happy to spend the next hour or so looking over my notes. A few moments passed in silence before I heard the pink fairy start to move.
"What is that player, haven't seen you study much of anything since I got here." Kyu floated over my shoulder looking down at what I had written last night.
"Well last night, when I was texting with the girls, I decided it best to change into the appropriate substi-suit." At that she shoot me the most puzzled look she had yet. "It's what i've come to call them I guess." I shrugged and noticed Kyu still looked plenty confused. "See cause they are a substitute for myself and I wear them kinda like a suit… I guess. So substi-suit" Now she was just trying not to laugh.
"Damn you're lame player." she said, motioning for me to continue.
"As I was saying I decided to take some notes on them, just some simple things I've been able to figure out about them and their personality. I figured it would make playing the roles a bit easier if I understood them more." I flipped through the pages giving Kyu a quick look. "It's not much, but I'm hoping to add more over time.
"Not a bad idea I guess, a little useless maybe, but hey whatever helps you get the job done." With that Kyu flopped back down on my bed and went back to flipping through her magazine. I chuckled at the scene before going back to my notes. The hour passed by quickly and before I knew it I was getting ready to head out on the first of what I hoped would be many dates.
"So you never told me who we're starting with," Kyu stated as she followed my out the door. "If I don't know I'm not to sure what advice to give you."
"No worries Kyu, I'm feeling confident today, and your improvised advice is always spot on.
"That's the spirit player, now lets hear a victory yell."
I took a risk and I was hyped to see if it would pay off. So fuck it. I let out a yell at the top of my lungs.
"Let's do this!" As I turned the corner I stopped, the cute girls who I walked by the other day were there… staring at me. The started on there way, laughing at me as they went.
"Dork." Kyu said, failing to stifle her giggling.
"Bitch." I said smirking before I continued on my way.
Author's notes: Well here we are, the end of part one. With this chapter it's officially all me, no more game dialogue and for my first chapter without it I think I did an alright job. It's been 7 months in the making but we're here now. I have big plans for the future and I hope you all enjoy as we move into part two. I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who's taken the time to read or even look at my work, it's you guys who push me to keep writing and get better at it as well. Bonus thanks to everyone who has taken the time to leave feedback for me as well. I appreciate nothing more and I hope you continue to help me produce better content going forward. Well that's all I got for now besides the regular shameless plugs. You can find me on deviantart and tumblr under the name lovehinadude28, there I post updates on what's going on in my writing process. My editor also runs a blog, google "fan boy philosophers" or just find the link on either of my locations mentioned above. Well that's all folks, hope you have a nice new year.