"W-what are you talking about? I wouldn't do anything like that..." Calista tilted her head to the side in confusion at that rather evil assumption about her. Hesitantly, she accepted the hand offered to her, and pulled herself to her feet.
In her disoriented state, it took a little bit for her to process exactly what was said to her. Apparently this Darcy Walker was supposed to be her fiancé, and he didn't have a very high opinion of her? Wait, did he truly mean her though? Calista's last name wasn't Albescu... Suddenly, something clicked in her mind.
Fearfully raising her gaze up to Darcy's face, she squeaked, "Did you just say... The Magically-Magical Academy of Magic...?"
Hesitating for just a moment, Darcy nodded, "Yes. The M-MAM...despite the juvenile nature of the academy's name, this is the height of magical education. Of course, you should know of this...?" Tilting his head at her, questioningly...it was rather curious how she was behaving.
They hadn't previously spent too much time together, this year would be the longer to date, so he couldn't exactly say he did know exactly how she would behave 100% of the time. Purchance...was this her time of the month? Tales of women with personalities flips of their heads for over a week or so...maybe this was it? As much at this situation greatly confused him, he could understand natural human functions due to hormones.
With a small amount of more silence hanging in the air..."You...aren't asking just about the academy, are you...? What is it that you really want to ask me...?" Asking about the academy after attending to previous years to the one person who possibly knows the least...it implied that Calista was going far with this prank, and thought up a lot before deciding o go through with this. Somehow, that didn't sound right in his head, and another part of his head was nagging at him as to what this was.
Lifting her fingers to press against her temple, Calista closed her eyes tightly and took a deep breath. She indeed did know everything that Darcy was saying. That was the problem. Opening her eyes again, she took in everything in the room, realizing why it had all seemed so familiar.
As crazy as it was, apparently she had slipped into one of her newer dating sim games.
Again, absolutely crazy! Calista was obviously dreaming, there was no way that this was possible. She moved her hand from her temple, to smack herself across the face. "Wake up.... Wake up..." She muttered to herself.
This was so strange, Calista had never succeeded in lucid dreaming, and now that she apparently was doing so, she didn't want to stay in here. Out of all of the dating sims to dream about, she had to choose this one. While this game in particular had a compelling story, with stunning graphics, so a timid person like Calista, it was very difficult to play.
Calista's an antisocial people-pleaser, who wants nothing more than for everyone to like her. The protagonist of this game... Let's just say that everybody hated her. Arrogant, shallow... Calista found it painful to endure the nasty comments and the humiliation that the protagonist felt, despite it being all programmed and fake.
Now just imagine how badly Calista would feel if she herself had to go through it.
She was so preoccupied with her current situation, that she kind of forgot the presence of one of the datable characters. All her life, she's wanted to meet them. It's rather ironic, that now she has a chance, she doesn't take it at all.
Watching his fiance first act 'confused', then slap herself across the face while muttering 'wake up' to herself...there was now a longer moment of silence to follow...if Calista would answer with silence, Darcy would have to return it with patience. Still...if this was her monthly episode he'd never seen before, maybe she'd require some assistence from the attending nurse in the infirmary. There was probably some magic for this, there usually was...?
Peering around the girl's room for a moment in boredom, stepping over a little bit of bedroom clutter, the wardrobe was now only a few inches from his face. Reaching a hand over, he pulled it open and began searching through the dresses. "Albescu, if you are having female issues, you need not hide it from me. I am, after all, your fiance."
Taking more time, searching...he eventually pulled out garment bags. Unzipping both, he held up the outfits in each hand..."Choose your outfit for this afternoon. Once you've changed, I can escort you to the infirmary before taking my leave." One was recognizably the default optional 'School Uniform' outfit, the other was a regular 'Default Dress'...Darcy wasn't going to bother with searching through more drawers, thankfully (and rather conveniently), two outfits had already been made out by Calista.
"Female issues?!" Calista repeated in surprise, finally registering Darcy's presence. "No, no, I'm fine, it's not that...."
Recognizing him for his character, Calista examined him closely. He was one of her favorite characters in the game, and he looked even better in person--or dream, whatever. It was only now that she was beginning to feel embarrassed to how she woke up this morning... But hey, it was a dream right? Even if it wasn't her favorite game, she might as well ride it out until she woke up.
"I'm really fine, I don't need to go to the infirmary." Calista said, a little more confident in her decision. Besides, what would she tell the nurse? 'Help! I think I'm stuck in a video game, whack me with a hammer so I wake up'? She'd be in an asylum for sure.
Letting her check him out from top to bottom, so to speak, he stared down at the girl who was to be fiance. It was still pleasantly surprising that she hadn't uppercut him, or similar, yet...he looked away and nodded, "Is that so?" Before going over to the door of her dorm and turning the doorknob.
"I will take my leave, then. The headmaster said that you should spend the day resting and reflecting...you had quite a (-n unusual) fainting spell this morning." There was a slight pause, before he looked over at Calista with an interesting sort of expression, "The headmaster also said that, for now...'your secret' will be hidden, and that you should do your best to hide it. Good bye, Calista Albescu. I will see you tomorrow..."
With that, he stepped out and closed the door behind him.
Calista Albescu has gained...
+5 Karma with Darcy Walker, for not uppercutting him or putting him in a strangle hold, though he was expecting it...
+1 Friendship Points for not acting aggressively
-1 Aggression Points for not acting aggressively
So far, the total changed are...
+89 Aggression Points: Darcy expects to be kicked between the legs, though he doesn't have any actual junk to kick...
-75 Romance Points: Calista is his arranged fiance, they have somewhat of a mutual dislike of each other
-70 Friendship Points: they don't need to be friends...
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Blazion