(set: $name to (either: "Ben", "Julia", "Katherine", "Michael"))
Hello reader. Welcome!
(set: $school to (either: "middle school", "high school"))
(live:2s)[The first step to this story is choosing a name. Your name is: click here(click-replace: "click here")[$name].(stop:)]
(set: $place to (either: "NYC", "Denver", "Los Angeles"))
(live:5s)[You go to a school (click-replace: "school")[$school] in your home city(click-replace: "your home city")[$place]. You are a part of the popular group at your school, and everyone looks up to you and your friends and wants to be you guys.(stop:)]
(set: $bff1 to (either: "Cheryl", "Ava", "Lindy"))
(live:12s)[One day, blank, one of your best friends, posts a picture of herself in a bikini for the first time on her instagram account. (click-replace: "blank") [$bff1] (stop:)]
(set: $bff2 to (either: "Alex", "Jessica", "Keira", "Sebastian"))
(live: 15s)[Your other friend, click,(click-replace: "click")[$bff2] comments on her post:
(text-style: "italic")[Ooh! $bff1! You little slut.](stop:)]
(live: 20s)[$bff1 came to you and said that the comment $bff2 made caused her to feel (text-style: "blur") [upset] and (text-style: "blur")[insecure]. She said that she didn't want to be viewed as a slut if she was just showing her body off. $bff1 asked you for advice.]
(live: 23s)[What advice do you give her?
[[Let it go.]]
or
[[Confront your friend who made the comment.]]
]
"$bff2 probably didn't mean anything by it. If I were you, in order to avoid (text-colour:"red")[drama], I would just let it go," you say to $bff1.
(live: 3s)[$bff1 agrees with you. "It probably is a good idea not to cause (text-colour:"red")[drama]," she says.]
(live:5s)[Later that week, $bff1 posts another picture that is (text-style:"smear")+(text-colour:"pink")[scandalous]. ]
(live:7s)[As you thought might happen as soon as you saw the picture, $bff2 comments on the photo again.]
(live:8s)[(text-style:"italic")[Ooh! $bff1! You really are starting to show off your stuff now, you little whore!]]
(live:9s)[$bff1 comes to you again, this time crying.
"$bff2 has taken it way too far! I need to do something. What should I do?" she says.]
(live:11s)[You feel really bad for $bff1. Why, all of a sudden, was $bff2 being so mean? You have to make a decision for $bff1. You are between confronting $bff2, or saying that you don't want to get involved because you don't want to suffer the possible consequences.]
(live:13s)[Do you:
[[Confront your friend who made the comment.]]
or
[[Say that you don't want to get involved.]]
]You (text-colour:"green")[FaceTime] $bff1 later that night to talk about how you guys will confront $bff2. You narrow down the options to two ideas.
(live:2s)[Do you help $bff1 confront $bff2 [[online]] or [[in person]]?]You stay out of it, but $bff1 can't ever find the confidence to confront $bff2 by herself, so nothing happens. $bff1 slowly migrates away from your friendgroup, and she stops talking to you.
(live:1s)[You lost $bff1's friendship by staying out of it and not helping her, and $bff2 still thinks it's okay to say those things.]
(live:2s)[Sorry, but you didn't make the right decisions and you suffered the consequences.]The next night, $bff1 comes over to your house so that you can help her confront $bff2 on her computer.
(live:1s)[$bff1 opens her (text-colour:"pink")[I](text-colour:"red")[n](text-colour:"orange")[s](text-colour:"yellow")[t](text-colour:"lightgreen")[a](text-colour:"darkgreen")[g](text-colour:"lightblue")[r](text-colour:"darkblue")[a](text-colour:"purple")[m]. (stop:)]
(live:2s)[Inside of $bff1's (text-colour:"pink")[I](text-colour:"red")[n](text-colour:"orange")[s](text-colour:"yellow")[t](text-colour:"lightgreen")[a](text-colour:"darkgreen")[g](text-colour:"lightblue")[r](text-colour:"darkblue")[a](text-colour:"purple")[m], the two of you click on $bff1's DM's. You create a message to $bff2. (stop:)]
(live:3s)[Do you choose the [[less dramatic method]]:
(text-style:"italic")[Hi, $bff2. What you are continuously commenting on my posts is making me feel insecure. Can you stop please?]
or
[[The more dramatic method]]:
(text-style:"italic")[$bff2! You are being so mean to me and I want you to stop! I thought that you were my friend!]
]You and $bff1 discuss what to say to $bff2 at your next sleepover. You eventually decide that $bff1 will be (text-colour:"lightgreen")[honest] and say that what $bff2 was commenting of $bff1's (text-colour:"pink")[I](text-colour:"red")[n](text-colour:"orange")[s](text-colour:"yellow")[t](text-colour:"lightgreen")[a](text-colour:"darkgreen")[g](text-colour:"lightblue")[r](text-colour:"darkblue")[a](text-colour:"purple")[m] photos made her feel upset. Hopefully $bff2 would make the right decision and apologize.
(live:1s)[You and $bff1 choose to confront $bff2 [[at their house]].]You and $bff1 send the message to $bff2. $bff2 sees it and replies to it in only a few minutes. This was $bff2's response:
(live:1s)[(text-style:"italic")[Hey $bff1, I'm really sorry I made you feel that way. Maybe we could talk about it in person after school tomorrow? I never meant those things that I said in a hurtful way. I'm really sorry.](stop:)]
(live:2s)[You and $bff1 are happy with the way $bff2 responded and you agree to meet up with $bff2 after school tomorrow. Your friends talk it out and both of them are very grateful to you for helping them resolve their friendship.]
(live:3s)[The three of you continue to be the popular kids in the school and your friendship only gets stronger from there.]
(live:4s)[Congratulations, you chose the right path!]$bff1 sends the more dramatic message. Ten minutes after it was sent, the two of you check her (text-colour:"pink")[I](text-colour:"red")[n](text-colour:"orange")[s](text-colour:"yellow")[t](text-colour:"lightgreen")[a](text-colour:"darkgreen")[g](text-colour:"lightblue")[r](text-colour:"darkblue")[a](text-colour:"purple")[m] again and $bff2 has read it, but didn't begin to reply at all.
(live:1s)[At school, $bff1 confronts $bff2. She asks why $bff2 didn't reply to her DM, and $bff2 says that it was because $bff1 was just causing unneccesary drama.]
(live:2s)[$bff1 tells you that she is done trying to get through to $bff2. She leaves your friend group, and says you don't have to go with her, but she'd like you to.]
(live:3s)[Now you have to make a choice between both of your friends. Do you [[go with]] $bff1 or [[stay with]] $bff2?]$bff1 asks her mom to drive her to $bff2's house to work on a homework assignment. She agrees, and the two of you go to $bff2's house and confront her.
(live:2s)[You stay in the car, but afterwards, $bff1 tells you what the conversation that they had was. This is what it was.
"Hey $bff2. I came here to talk to you about the comments you've been making on my (text-colour:"pink")[I](text-colour:"red")[n](text-colour:"orange")[s](text-colour:"yellow")[t](text-colour:"lightgreen")[a](text-colour:"darkgreen")[g](text-colour:"lightblue")[r](text-colour:"darkblue")[a](text-colour:"purple")[m] posts lately. They've just been making me feel upset. Could you stop?"
"I'm really sorry," $bff2 said. "I didn't mean any of the things that I said, and I get it if you don't forgive me. I really didn't mean for you to take it that way. I was saying it as a joke, but I'm really sorry that it made you feel that way."]
(live:6s)[$bff1 is happy with $bff2's response and they both are extremely grateful for you helping their friendship continue to thrive. The three of you are closer than ever, and your friendships grow and flourish.]
(live:7s)[Congratulations, you made the right choices!]You decide to go with $bff1, but everyone else starts rumors about you two that you are dating.
(live:1s)[It hurts your feelings, but if you stand up and speak about it, there will only be backlash.]
(live:2s)[Sorry, but you made the wrong decisions and you have to suffer the consequenses.]You decide to stay with $bff2, but everyone else starts rumors that you bullied $bff1.
(live:1s)[It hurts your feelings and your friendship, but if you stand up and speak about it, there will only be backlash.]
(live:2s)[Sorry, but you made the wrong decisions and you have to suffer the consequenses.]