Jon swallowed hard as he turned a corner. His eyes were still burning from the frustrated tears he had shed on the way. It just wasn’t fair! This morning the world had been his oyster thanks to the wishing stone. He’d finally found the courage to tell Karyn how he felt…. well ok he’d been busy coming up with the best way to tell her when Sarah had shown up. But this time he’d gone through with it, for sure! And now that chance was gone forever!
“You look like you are about to have an aneurysm.” Jon jumped in shock when Sarahs voice spoke directly into his ear. But when he looked around the cheerleader was nowhere to be seen. She giggled “I used the stone to get a front row seat for your punishment, idiot. But watching you walk down this street is getting kinda boring. So I decided to tease you a bit more.”
“Tease?” Jon asked incredulously “You are ruining my life!”
“Yeah? Well it isn’t like your life was anything to look at anyway.” Sarah retorted unconcerned. It was all Jon could do to grit his teeth, instead of spitting back something that would get him turned into a toad or something.
"Do you remember how I used to read your comics when my family came over for brunch? “ Sarah asked suddenly, after Jon had marched on in silence for another minute “Well I never really stopped. “she continued ” Not your comics of course. But they have remained one of my guilty pleasures. Especially the Japanese ones. Of course the queen of the school can't have a bookshelf of nerd-stuff in her room for everyone to see, but it is amazing what you can find online these days."
“Hmm.” Jon grunted noncommitaly. He did remember the little blonde girl who spent each visit in his room a stack of comics beside her. But it was hard imagining the bitch she had become doing the same. Which apparently was the whole point.
"I only got together with Biff cause I can hardly date beneath my station, you know. And he seemed like the best of the bunch. And at the start he was kinda decent. Not amazing mind you… but there are worse boyfriends. But when he found out I liked Japanese comics....." she gave a frustrated growl "...well let`s just say he knew he had enough ammunition that he could stop trying altogether. “
”Of course the Japanese porngames he got from Steve were TOTALLY different.” She continued when Jon didn’t react ” Filling a school with girls you created and who are falling over themselves to spread their legs for you, isn't pathetic AT ALL." her voice was dripping with sarcasm as she said "But I am sure you wouldn't know about that." Jon prayed Sarah wouldn't notice the guilty look on his face, but his hopes were dashed when Sarah gave a long-suffering sigh "Men!". It wasn’t like Jon had really gotten into these kinds of games or anything. He had played one, because Leonard hadn’t shut up about it. His friend had been right, something about one of the heroines had really spoken to Jon. She’d been the subject of his wet dreams for a month or two. But it still felt like he had cheated on Karyn, stupid as that was. Not that explaining any of that to Sarah was liable to help.
"Anyway," she continued after a moment " the oaf might have been good for something after all, because that gave me an idea. You’ll get to be the star in your own personal dating-sim. And I can’t wait to see your face when you see what I have prepared for you” Sarah said gleefully “I fact I wish you were already in your new room.”
The whole world jumped in front of Jons eyes, then the night-time street was suddenly replaced by a brightly lit room. As Jon tried to blink the spots from the sudden change in illumination from his eyes, he got the feeling that something was very very wrong.
The room looked like a normal, if sparsely furnished, bedroom. A wardrobe, a bed and a desk were the only things in the room aside from Jon aside from a large flatscreen Tv that took up much of the wall between the bed and wardrobe . When he took a step towards the screen to look for clues to his new situation, Jon suddenly knew what was wrong. It wasn’t the room that was wrong. It was him. Well the room had a strange artificial feel to it too, but….
Jon slowly lowered his eyes, dreading what he would find. He was still wearing his old clothes, but the two bulges beneath his t-shirt and the feeling of his underwear lying flat against his crotch made it pretty obvious what had happened. …..And Sarah had said this was a dating-sim! “No!” Jon whispered in horror.
“Yes” Sarah gloated “You get to be one of the heroines.” As if on cue music began to play: a light, somewhat girly, pop-theme without vocals. A moment later the tv turned on, showing the silhouette of a girl at the left. The girls head was hidden beyond the upper edge of the frame and she was clutching her hands to her chest in longing, a red thread was tied across her finger it’s loose end wound of towards the left and twisting in the title of the game “Akai Ito no Otome”. Seeing this Jon could place the other thing that had been bothering him, he and the entire room looked like extremely well-made CGI, almost realistic with the emphasis on almost.
“And it seems the player just entered. Great timing. ” Sarah said sweetly “Time for your first cutscene.”
