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Chapter 2: Tutorial! Don't Pop the broken Hearts!
Outdoor Lounge 9:45 pm
Audrey materializes across the table from Kyu. She looks around frantically as Kyu stands up and stretches. Audrey looks back at the fairy stretching. Once she finishes she takes a seat across from Audrey.
"Welcome to your first date, girl!" Kyu announces.
Audrey looked around the slightly crowded area. Nobody seemed to be paying her and her loud "friend" any attention. Kyu brought Audrey's attention back to her when she clapped her hands together.
"Alright Sister, let's get this date started!"
"Wait hold on, where the fuck are we? Weren't we just in my room?" Audrey exclaimed.
"Yeah, and I teleported us to this fancy schmancy place. No offense, but a college dorm room is not the best place for a date. Unless you wanna skip the date and get to the fun part…" Kyu purred.
Audrey stared at her. What could the fun part mean. It took her a moment but she realized what it meant and looked down at the table to hide her red face. Kyu laughed slapping her knee.
"Oh my god, you're adorable!" Kyu guffawed.
Kyu waved her hand and a square grid materialized out of thin air. On it four tiles appeared filling up bits of the grid, but there were still some blank spaces. Underneath the grid appeared a gauge with a 0/100 in it. On the left of the gouge was a pink rectangle with "Lv. 1" listed in it. On the right side of the gauge were two squares one yellow square with 20 and the other cyan with 000. There were three rows of two squares on the other side of the grid.
"What's with all the squares?" Audrey asked.
"Allow me explain. This big thing is the date grid. You use this to track your progress during the date. Each token here is linked to what you say or do during your date. Try complimenting me."
Audrey stared at Kyu. She wasn't the "complimenting" type. She received many compliments, but to give someone a compliment back was alien to her. And what was with this dating grid.
"Uh… your eyes are very… green?"
Kyu stared at her as is to say 'really?' There was no change on the date grid. Kyu shook her head.
"Gaaaaaaawd. No one can be this… whatever. Just say something about my hair." Kyu ordered.
"You have… pretty hair?" Audrey replied.
"Don't ask! Grow a pair and say it!" Kyu demanded
"Fucking fine! You have damn good hair!" Audrey yelled.
A trio of green stars connected and "popped". The gauge filled up a little. Now it was 8/100. Kyu gave Audrey a thumbs up.
"Great! Now allow me to explain. These are all affection tokens. The green stars you just matched were "flirtation" tokens. They match whenever you successfully flirt with someone. The orange crescents are "romance" token. They match when you talk about romantic stuff. The blue music notes are "talent" which when you talk about your talents. And the red flames are "sexuality" which match up when you touch them intimately or talk about sexual things." Kyu added a wink to the last part.
Audrey looked at the grid. She named each symbol in her head as for what it did. She then nodded looking back at Kyu. A confident smirk curved up Audrey's lips.
"Sure. This isn't too hard." She replied flipping her hair.
"Good now for the next four tokens." Kyu cheered.
Audrey mentally groaned as four more tokens appeared. Memory wasn't really her strong suit since she was usually stoned or hammered. This all seemed to be more suited for her friend Nikki, after all she'd rather play games all day than exist. Just thinking about how Nikki refused to socialize made Audrey mad.
The next four tokens appeared: A pink heart, a gold bell, a purple broken hear and a cyan tear drop. Audrey cocked an eyebrow as the bell and tear drop seemed out of place, then again why was there a crescent moon for romance and a star meaning flirtation? Kyu began explaining the new shapes.
"Now these are different than the affection tokens. The gold bells are move tokens. See you might have noticed a yellow square under the grid, that's how many moves you have. Moves will line up at random. All you have to do is choose the right tokens to make them match. You'll get the hang of it. Now the pink hearts are passion tokens, they increase your passion levels which makes your affection matches more powerful. The purple broken hearts are bad news, avoid them at all costs. And finally the teardrops are sentiment tokens. They fill up the sentiment meter at the bottom right side of the grid. Next to the sentiment is your "Date Gift" inventory. Date gifts are, well pretty self-explanatory, but they also help on the dates. Here's a free one." Kyu says.
She hands Audrey a cream colored teddy bear with a pink stomach. Audrey looked at it unamused.
"Oh, wow, you shouldn't have." She replied blandly.
"You could at least act thankful. Well whatever, use that date gift on me." The love fair instructed.
Audrey looked at the plushy and then at Kyu. She slowly handed it back to Kyu. She accepted it and all the broken hearts turned into passion tokens. The pink hears started popping and matching instantly.
"Wow, when you transformed the broken heart tokens into passion tokens they all matched up, good call rookie."
Audrey folded her arms and scoffed. Even the slightest compliment would send her into a snobbish egotistical trance.
"Of course, all my calls are good. I'm not just pretty, I'm smart too." Audrey boasted.
Kyu smirked. Giving Audrey a boost in her confidence was the easiest way for Kyu to manipulate the red head.
Audrey smirked. Her pride would never let her turn down a challenge, even if she thought this was a load of shit. She began to flirt with Kyu and playfully tease her. Of course Kyu didn't tell her she wouldn't let her lose on the first board. After all she wasn't that mean. As Audrey continued to work her "magic" Kyu could only add fuel to the raging blaze of Audrey's ego as she liked how this was shaping up.
Woohoo, new chapter. Alright I'll make you a deal dear readers. if I get at least 5 reviews I'll work on and post a new chapter of this story. I might be setting the bar high but I have Fall classes to focus on. I might retract that statement later if classwork dies down or if I get bored and decide to post it anyways. It seems a lot of you like this story and I'm glad.
Now this chapter may seem shorter or a little mismatched. If it does I'm sorry, I was sick when writing this so I was in and out with each paragraph. But hopefully I was able to keep the personalities true to the game or the previous chapters of the story. SO next chapter we'll start meeting some new (ish) characters, Please R&R.