Finally got energy to write this, I was traveling from one town to another for Eid, my back hurts from too much driving (草) I wrote this on phone, so pardon for the simplicity and the lack of commorative artwork.

This is my first time joining O2A2, so the limitations are quite challenging for me. I thought I could easily make something short as I wrote many drabble fanfic around 1k words in my super busy uni days, but no, I can't wwww I needed to rewrite the script 3 times.

At first I didn't want to join this jam as I don't have any story idea that short (I do have one in my mind, but it's very summer-y so I thought I would enter the O2A2 in July). I thought I would just focus on my current project, Angel In My House that btw I'm gonna release on my birthday next month :D

But when I edited my project, I got idea from the opening of my own writing. It's about two most courageous things that I thought impossible for me: confessing and rejecting a confession. And then I remembered this song (yes, I'm a big TsukiPro girl) (couldn't link the full ver. as it's not official in YT, they have one on Spotify but region locked 😅)   and that's basically it wwww

I chose a drifting friendship as the other thing as I was recently met an old friend. I had made many best friends back then, but I always attended school in another town, so I didn't see my friends after I graduated. Heck, I was the one who attended the farthest uni from all of my high school friends www Because of that, whenever I met my friends I feel like I was isolated, not because they deliberately do so, it just we're out of tune. I couldn't understand what they're talking about as I didn't know the context or the "common sense" of their talk. I didn't know what to do or what to say to them. Everything became awkward. I felt like, "Wow, they're changing so much, I couldn't recognize them. And here I am, still me, never changing from 10 years, 20 years ago." But then I realized, maybe in their eyes I too changed so much I'm barely recognizable. And nothing can't be done for that, it's just how life is. But just naturally accepting it is scary. Adulting is scary www

And then about the actual confession part. For me, I would never do it if I know it just hurts me and will put a strain in my relationship with my best friend. I'm quite hedonistic in that part, I will never risk it www But there are people who would say it, whether it will hurt them or not, and I admire that courage. It's just ... screaming "youth"  and a perfect shounen/shoujou plot wwww

My first thought about this game was it would end with rejection ending (yea, it's supposed to be hurts so bad I want to put "Warning: PAIN"), or at least have that. Of course the rejection ending should be the main ending as that is gonna be the most emotional and pure pain www. But when I wrote the actual script and it reached 999 words before the climax, I panicked www and so that got scrapped. The second one, I wanted to implied that Lily is a pansexual (like me) and have a liiiittle more backstory, but that too was over 1k counts, so :')

For the character creation, I want to make Andrea someone who is beautiful, strong, yet kind ... the perfect girlfriend. To be honest, I blushed so much when making this wwww like, why you so pretty?! wwww

Lily on the other hand is timid and knows she is weak, but the more I wrote about her, the more I saw how strong and brave she is, and I feel bad to put her through this wwww Btw, Lily's name is from another song from TsukiPro, it's about a forgotten love that blooms again like a flower waiting for spring (maybe gonna use that theme somewhere, another time?), so whenever I wrote Lily's dialogue, I started singing that song wwww

I may make an extended version of this, because I really want to see the rejection ending so bad, I want to feel the pain www and also I want to make the other side a.k.a Andrea's POV, because what's more painful than rejecting your best friend when you feared she will leaves you forever because of heartbreak? Imagine the pain, the guilt! That's gonna hurts so much~.

Alas, the game should end here for the perfectly 1k words count and so the dream of extended version will becomes the nightmare that will follows :D