In this story you will be playing the role of Rene, a gangly awkward mole who spends every weekday watching and reviewing a variety of obscure movies and TV shows for her local newspaper in a controlled, 8-to-10-hour compressed environment. Beware, as you will come across existential fear, lust, bloodlust, hunger, and the ever-persistent psychological torment of capitalism in the 21st century...
**CONTENT WARNING**: This story contains multiple (font:"Jokerman")[NSFW] moments. If you're under 18, please do not read!
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[[Bring it|Intro]]
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZEhODGMt4">I've changed my mind! Let me out!!</a>"Urrgh...." Rene raises her head up. She rubs her eyes and checks her phone to see the time. 5:45... up early again. She groaned, plopping back on her bed. What was she even gonna do with this time? Well, definitely not stay in bed, laying on her front was starting to kill her chest.
She reluctantly pulled herself out of bed and yawned, throwing her hair back and walking out of her bedroom. Well, she had some time to kill, what to do?
Reader, you are now in control of Rene's brain. In order to fully get immersed in her character, you may want to prepare a plate of deviled eggs and cover your floor in hay before you continue.
[[Enter the bathroom and get ready for the day]]
[[Nah, I don't need to get ready]]She does her business and brushes her teeth. The toothpaste is running out; she makes a mental note to buy some more later.
Going back into her room, Rene throws on her outfit for today: SpongeBob crop-top, orange rave pants, and a red beret. She looks so. fucking. gorgeous.
Well! Now that she's all prepared, it's time to get this day started! Please, Rene, what would you like to do today?
[[Go bike riding to campus]]
[[Grab something to eat and chill]]Rene pisses her pants and dies. When the cops come to retrieve her body they think lower of her because of her bad morning breath and throw her body in the river.
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**THE END**Rene decides to get some exercise and take her bike to college to finish up some work in her computer class. Who knows, maybe she could finish her homework and clear up some time during her weekend?
Rene walks out her apartment complex, unlocking her bike from the rack. It's pink, and has this cute basket and a bell, and this little contraption in front of the back wheel where you can keep a water bottle.
She takes the road downtown to her college, which is only 5 or so minutes away. She enters the computer room; she's the only one here, the lights not even on, which makes sense, y'know, since it's so early.
She set her stuff down near a computer and turned it on, but got distracted while booting it up as her eyes drifted towards the east side of the room.
A 3D printer!! They finally got around to installing it! Rene got out of her seat; her work was gonna have to be put on halt right now.
She put her hands on the desk and exhaled out her nose as she debated what she could scan. Hmm... she'd have to think quick so she could finish up her homework.
[[Naruto sticker]]
[[Face]]
[[Keister]](set: $latetowork to false)
Fuck it, she spends so much of her time busy with college and work, might as well have a bit of time to herself.
Rene grabbed a bag of hot Cheetos and set up a beanbag in front of her TV, projecting her YouTube playlist onto it.
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"OH FUCK!! THAT'S SO BADASS!!" Rene spilled some hot Cheetos out of her mouth.
After finishing the playlist, she played a little bit of THUGPro, but had to shut it off quick as 7 AM approached.
"Ough..." she laid on her beanbag, face glazed over.
[[Time to go to work]](set: $mettrudy to true, $sawnaruto to true, $latetowork to true)
Rene pulled out a Naruto sticker she keeps in her pocket for healing purposes. "They say that if you 3D print the image of someone fictional, they come to life..." she walked towards the scanner. "Could it be true...?"
Gently, she placed the visage of Naruto on the scanner, and pressed the button on the printer, bringing to a start. Rene squatted in front of the printer, eyes and snout poking over the desk as she watched Naruto form bit by bit, waiting for his full form to finally coalesce.
//Ding!// "Yes!" Rene jumped and raised her fists in glee as the Naruto had finally come together, watching as he slowly evolved from a small monochromatic piece of plastic to a full grown human Naruto!"
"My name's Naruto!" He held his sword in a cool position. "And you better believe me!"
Rene put her hands on her heart, tearing up. "It is true! He is a real boy!" She came up to hug him.
"**Hi-ya!**" Naruto swung his sword at Rene as she approached, Rene just narrowly dodging out of the way. "Agh! No! Naruto, stop, I love you!" she screamed, backing away and dodging Naruto's swift attacks. But Naruto did not listen.
It was at this moment that Trudy, an axolotl, stepped into the room to see that chaos that was ensuing.
"Hey, Naruto!"
Naruto turned his head towards Trudy, stopping his blade right above Rene's head.
"Eat shit and die, loser!" She shot a ball of energy towards Naruto, striking him directly with deft precision.
Naruto screamed a bloodrattling caw as his body disappeared from existence. Rene crouched over on the ground, panting heavily.
Trudy walked over to Rene. "Hey dude, you okay?"
Rene looked up, shocked to see Trudy there. Trudy was in her computer class, but usually never showed up to college aside from the days they had tests. "Uh, yeah..." she stood up and brushed herself off. "Thank you."
"Hey, no problem, dude."
Rene checked her watch. "Oh jeez, talk to you later, I gotta head to work!" She ran out the room, leaving Trudy alone, along with the lingering smell of smoke.
[[Time to go to work]] (set: $mettrudy to false, $latetowork to false)
Rene smooshes her face on the scanner and slaps the button on the printer, the machine loudly **whirr**ing to a start.
Rene waited patiently for the machine to do it's business. "I cam't breafthe woithe my faicshe loike theis..." she drooled onto the scanner.
Finally, after a few minutes, the machine went //ding!// Rene pulled her head off the scanner, taking a deep breath in. "Alright, let's see!"
She ran over to the printer with an open-mouthed smile, but frowned as she saw the end product. "Aw drat!" She picked it up. "It smashed my face up," she turned it to a variety of angles, "you can see all up in my gums and where I was drooling all over myself. Ugh, this is no good." She threw it in the trash bin and sighed. "I guess I'll never know what my face looks like...."
[[Time to go to work]](set: $mettrudy to true, $sawbutt to true, $latetowork to true)
Rene debates it, but she knows what the first thing on her mind was.
She darts her head around the room to make sure no one is looking and takes her pants off. As efficiently as she can she tries to stuff her butt up the scanner. It's only meant for small-ish stuff so she has to get up on the desk and angle herself weird, but she manages to get a fit in there. The 3D printer whirred as it computed the data it was receiving.
After a few minutes of processing and tense nerves, the machine finally stopped and cooled down. "Phew..." Rene said, wiping the sweat off her forehead, "now I gotta squeeze myself out of this thing -- AIIEE!"
While trying to get out, Rene stumbled over, landing face first on the ground. "Owwch..." She tried pulling herself up, but felt something pulling on her leg. She looked back, seeing her legs caught in a bundle of wires, and then bent behind one of the legs of the desk just to rub it in.
Aw crap. "Oh cornsarnit..." she muttered. She //knew// she should've listened to her superego and printed out the Naruto sticker instead.
She tried unlatching herself to no avail. "C'mon..." She grabbed the leg of one of the desks in front of her and pulled harder. "HUAAAGHH! AAAGGHH! UUUAGGGH! GHHHH! NHHHH! Ugh..." she collapsed, falling into a pathetic pile on the ground.
//Ding!//
Rene gasped, looking up at the other side of the room. //Someone's entering!// she thought. //I can't let them see me like this!// She went back and pulled and stretched herself twice as hard. "GWWAAARGGH! EEEEAAGHH! BUHH... OUUUGH! BBBBBBBBBBBB--"
"You need some help there?"
Rene looked up, seeing a bipedal axolotl standing over her. "Oh, uh... hi, Trudy." She recognized her from her computer class, though she didn't know much about her since she never came to class after the first day, aside from when they had tests.
"Here, lemme let you out." She grabbed Rene's leg and pulled it out of the bunch of wires, Rene collapsing on the ground.
She jumped up and quickly pulled her pants up. "Uh, thank you...."
"Oh by the way," she grabbed the 3D model off the printer, "I think this is yours."
Rene quickly grabbed it and hid it in one of her fists. "Ahaha, thank you...." She jogged over to grab her stuff and then powerwalked out the computer room. "Okay, see you later!"
She huffed. "Well, I guess I better get to work now." While she walked over to the bike racks, she unfurled her fist, peeking at the model.
"Oh, ew, I didn't know my butt was that hairy..." she walked over to the trashcan to throw it away, and then ran over to her bike.
//Alright//, she thought, //let's just pretend I didn't wake up early today.//
[[Time to go to work]] (if: $latetowork is true)[
"Sorry I was late!" Rene said, the door to the small theater room clamping shut behind her. "I was busy with college."
Her supervisor #1 licked his teeth. "(font:"Jokerman")[Yess... just don't do it again!]"
She saluted. "I won't."](else-if: $latetowork is false)[
"Hey!" Rene waved, the door to the small theater room clamping shut behind her. "I'm early!"]
Her supervisor #2 hunched over, watching her as she walked down to the first row of seats.
Supervisor #1 turned up his mic. "(font:"Jokerman")[Today is a special day, Mrs. Mayberry.]" He pulled a lever on his desk, bringing up a pad of buttons in front of Rene's seat. "(font:"Jokerman")[Today, you get to choose from Three different productssss.... all released this month.]"
"Oh, score!" Rene peered down at the pad, studying her choices. "Hmm... what to watch, what to watch...."
[[The Assman 2: This Can't Be Happening]]
[[jokes 4]]
[[The Evil World of Penish MAlone]](set: $assblaster to true)
"Thorgus! My hefty sword is limp and puny, and I need your big sword to help me out!"
Rene drifted off, her body slumped to the side of her seat. "Urrrrghh... how much longer do I have left in this movie?!"
"(font:"Jokerman")[Ssssseven hourssss.]"
"AAAGGGH!! Why do they have to make these stupid superhero films so long??"
Trudy popped up out a secret corner in the room, unaware to anyone else. "Topical humor, am I right?"
[[9 hours later...]](set: $jokes to true)
"Help! I got my butt stuck in the fax machine!" //Boi-yoing-yoing-yoing!// "I've fallen and I can't get up like Last Alert!"
"Oh my god, this stuff is so stupid..." Rene rubbed her hands in her face. "How many of these stupid films are there?"
"(font:"Jokerman")[They just ordered sssssseventeen more!]"
"Ouuuughh..." she melted down further in her seat.
[[9 hours later...]] "Freddy... Freddy, what's gotten into you?"
"Martha... Martha, what if we where all humans, but we looked like the trumpet guy from the final episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog? That would be really fucked up if that was true."
Rene sat in the fetal position, her hands holding her head. "God, that would be really fucked up."
[[9 hours later...]] =><=
**THE MOVIES, BY RENE MAYBERRY**
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(if: $assblaster is true)[
"**The Assman 2: This Can't Be Happening**: What a peace of crap!! I sat through all 12 hours of it and not one moment of it did I like! Who is gonna watch a bunch of people in silly costumes for a bajillion-ty hours?!"
](else-if: $jokes is true)[
"**jokes 4**: Whatta piece of doodoo! I mean, what a caca-poopoo! I tell ya, they just keep making this stuff, don't they! They need to get a real comedian to write this stuff, like Adam Sandshrew."
](else:)[
"**The Evil World of Penish MAlone**: What the hell. What the fuck. They must've been on some good meth when they wrote this. I'm not sleeping tonight for sure!"]
"Ugghh... and now I'm done!" She stretched her arms, the door to the theater unlocking.
"(font:"Jokerman")[Fasssscinating work...]" Supervisor #1 spoke over the PA. "(font:"Jokerman")[Remember, tomorrow you're coming back for more!]"
"Yeah, I got it, I got it..." Rene said, walking out of the theater back outside, where it had started pouring. "Weird...."
She walked to the local burger shop nextdoor. "God, my stomach is almost concave right now," she patted her belly. "I'm gonna get the juiciest burger...--"
"//Psst!// Over here!"
Rene turned her head, seeing Trudy hunched over a trash can.
"Trudy!" She ran over to her, huddling under the balcony with her. "What're you doing out in this weather?"
"I'm an axolotl. I like water." She dumped her head back in the trash can. "I'm eating ravioli." She wiped her mouth.
Rene leaned on the trash can. "Hey, were have you been for the past few classes? I never see you come in."
Trudy spit out an indeterminate glob of ooze. "I'm an adult. I can make my own decisions."
"Well," Rene leaned against the wall, "I just wanted to make sure you were okay, or something."
"Thanks, I guess."
They stood in silence for a moment.
(if: $sawbutt is true)[
"Hey. I saw your butt tattoo."
"Oh! Um, my Tony Hawk one?" Rene blushed, placing her hand on her mouth.
"Yeah." Trudy grabbed another piece of ravioli. "Hey, major respect for that, dude, I used to play those games all the time as a kid."
"Oh yeah, same, same. I don't play video games as much as I did when I was a kid, but I still play those all the time. I have like, 60 mods for THUGPro installed right now, hah...."
"Say, when did you get that tattoo?"
"Oh, just a few months ago," Rene turned her head away coyly.
"Yeah, it's interesting you have that tattoo, because, check this out--" Trudy turned around and pulled her pants down. "KAPOW!"
Rene gasped. "No way!" She gawked at Trudy's gigantic THUGPro tattoo.
"Yep! Got it full-spread, the entire ass."
"Damn, you even have all the characters here... Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Kareem Campbell...."
"Yeah man, if you look at my taint here I have all the lyrics to City Stars' full discography written on it."
"Sweeeeeet."
Rene got back up.
](else-if: $sawnaruto is true)[
"So what was that Naruto stuff all about?"
"Oh, that! Oh, I just wanted to bring Naruto to life! You see, he's really brave, and he's a ninja, and he fights for his friends, and he has this big sword, that he fights with. His best friend is this guy named, Sasuke, who--"
"Yeah, but like, how did he like, become in real life, explain that."
"Oh, well, I read online that, if you 3D print a character you like, they're actually come to real life, so I tried that with Naruto, and it worked! But then he tried to kill me."
Trudy smirked. "Maybe Naruto isn't as good as he seems."
"No way!! Naruto loves all his friends and wouldn't hurt anybody as long as they don't hurt anyone else. He must've copied wrong, or something."
"Whatever," Trudy shrugged. "I only ever watched the episode where they try to figure out what's under Kekashi's mask. Everything else was too boring for me."
"Ohh, that's a good one, classic episode for sure."
Trudy scratched herself. "Hey, did you ever watch those Naruto song parody flashes that were on Newgrounds back in the day, I remember really liking those for some reason even though I never--"
"Yes, YES!!" Rene grabbed her by the shoulders. "Oh my god, those were amazing as a kid, I remember my favorite was like, I don't remember the episode, but it opened with the serious beginning, and if you looked for a split second you could see the Madness guy, and then I think it goes to Feel Good Inc., that might've been a different one but I'm not sure, OH MAN, I have such good memories of those." Rene clenched her fists. "I tried to find them the other day but I don't remember what they were even called. I hope they weren't deleted or anything."
They both took a moment to breathe.
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"Hey, you wanna come with me inside and grab something to eat? That stuff you're eating doesn't look too healthy."
Trudy pulled her head out the can, spitting out the garbage ravioli. "Yeah, sure. You sure you have enough to pay?"
"I just got my paycheck this Monday, it's cool." Rene pushed open the front door, the bell making a little //ding!// "Come on in."
[[Trudy comes on in]]"Alright ladies, take a seat right here, and your waiter will be by in just a few minutes."
Rene and Trudy took a seat in the corner of the shop and grabbed their menus. "Hey, if you need any recommendations, the paninis here are absolutely divine. Oh, and the reubens here are really good too, but what //I// always get here is the (font:"Algerian")[**Krusty Kumburger**], oh my God, that is //soooo// tasty, I'm gonna get that today."
The waitress came by. "Hello, welcome to Bill's Burger Barn, what would you like today!"
Rene leaned back and smirked. "I would like one (font:"Algerian")[**Krusty Kumburger**], please."
"And you, what would you like?!"
Trudy inhaled through her nose. "I would like the buttermilk pancakes."
"Alright, let me take your menus, and you food will be ready in just a few!"
The waitress left with their menus, Rene and Trudy eating from the basket of chips in the middle of the table. "Why're you getting pancakes now? It's almost 9!"
Trudy shoved a bunch of chips in her mouth. "I don't like hamburgers."
Rene drank her glass of water. "OK...."
The waitress came back with their meals. "One (font:"Algerian")[**Kumburger**] for you, aaaaaand a stack of buttermilk pancakes for you!"
"Thanks!" Rene said.
"Yuh, thanks."
The waitress smiled. "Call me if you need anything!"
Both of them dug in their meals, Rene dripping burger juice all over herself, Trudy snorting and huffing as she tore through her pancakes.
(if: $sawnaruto is true)[
"Y'know," Rene said, exposing the gnashed clumps of meat in her mouth, "I was wondering, what was that you shot from your hands?"
Trudy brought her syrup-covered face up. "Oh, that's an energy ball."
Rene's whole body twitched, her eyebrows raised. "How did you learn to make those?!"
Trudy leaned back and put her hands behind her head. "Ah, y'know, practice."
Rene took another chomp of her burger. "Well, goddamn."
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"Hey," Rene began, "after we're done eating, you wanna come hang out in my apartment?"
"Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah," Trudy stuck her thumb up. "That'd be cool because, heh, I don't actually have my own place."
"Oh, jeez," Rene licked the grease off her fingers, "well, feel free to come by if you need to, I have the space, you know."
"Cool."
Rene slammed a wad of cash down on the table. "C'mon, let's leave right now, I have a Switch."
[[Let's go to Rene's home]]"Well." Rene threw her bag down on the ground. "Here's my place. Pretty epic, right?"
Trudy inspected around. Bags of Lays chips were tossed around everywhere on the ground, a mossy layer of dust and deceased bugs caking the surface of everything, aside from the buttprints all over the couch. "Yeah, it's pretty dope."
"My Switch is plugged in right there, but I have a bunch of other consoles right here." Rene pulled out a drawer full of old consoles and wires that already started spilling out onto the floor. "Just make a request and I can set something up for you!"
Trudy looked over Rene's shoulder, carefully inspecting the offerings. Hmm....
[[I'm cool with the Switch]]
[[What that PS2 do though]]
[[Can you just hook up your computer to the TV and play THUGPRO?]]
[[Kick Rene in the face]]"Alright, good." Rene chuckled, tossing everything back in the drawer. "Sorry, I just didn't feel like going through all that stuff, y'know?"
"Yeah, I get you. Looked like you were having trouble, so I wanted to step in." Little did Rene know, Trudy actually just spotted a copy of Hello Kitty Kruisers next to the TV, and was extremely intent on trying out that game. I mean, a little bit of her did want to be all nice to Rene, but it also didn't.
"So, do you have any games in mi--"
Trudy jumped up. "HELLO KITTY KRUISERS!!"
Rene was a bit taken aback by Trudy's enthusiasm. "Well, uh, okay!"
Returning to the ground, Trudy quickly reregulated her breath and cleared her throat. "Ahem, I mean. I am pretty good at the game, so I would like to show off some of my skills."
"Hey, you don't have to feel ashamed of your interests, y'know?" Rene pointed at the game. "I won't think anything of you for it. I think it's cute to see you all excited about this stuff. Lemme put the game in right now...."
Trudy bit her lip. Dammit, she was gonna wait until the second time they met to be all emotionally vulnerable!
[[Alright, let's play some fucking games!]]
[[Griffin McElroy, I would really like it if you checked out my comfort vore interactive fiction piece]]It shoots acid at the both of them and kills them.
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''THE END.''"Fuck, I'm gay." Rene pounces on top of Trudy and the two smooch and caress each other for the next half hour.
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Trudy removed her lips from Rene's. "What made you know you I was the one?"
"I'm sorry. I just can't not fuck with a bitch who respects Tony Hawk the way you do."
"Alright, chill." The two were about to go in for one more when they heard a bump in the back of the apartment.
"What the hell was that?" Trudy's stalks flinched up.
"It sounds like it was from my room...." Rene plopped Trudy's body onto the ground. "Follow me... I think I might need some assistance."
Trudy clenched her teeth, but kept a stiff upper lip. She was tough, but also very dumb, so she didn't know what to expect.
Verrrry carefully, Rene eased open the door to her bedroom, slowly sticking her snout through the crack. "Aha!" She grabbed Trudy by the arm, "YIPE!!" slinging her at the wall opposite of them.
Rene walked in after her, flicking the lights on. "Sorry about that, Trudy. Just this alien that breaks into my room sometimes. You looked like about the right size for something to fling at it."
Trudy rubbed a finger against her back, getting some of the ooze on her finger. Getting a quick look, she sucked the goo off her finger, snapping her mouth a few times. "Mmm. Tastes pretty good."
Rene squatted over the whole mess, watching Trudy go in for a bigger slurp. "What's it taste like?"
"Kinda like uh, one of those blue gogurts? But with a strawberry tinge to it, it's kinda nice."
"You know what else is nice?" Rene pulled in Trudy for another round of smooching, and the two where gonna get right on before Trudy's stomach started rumbling.
"Ah balogna," Trudy pushed Rene off, "oof, that stuff is making me have to take a right dookie. Be right back...." She ran out the room, knocking stuff off Rene's desk on the way along.
Rene spit out her saliva onto the ground. "Bleck, I hope I didn't get any of that stuff on my mouth." She rubbed her lips and brought out a vacuum to suck everything up. "Hey! It's all spotless underneath this!"
She brought a hand to her chin. "I wonder...."
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(more:)[''Hey,'' [[you good?]]]Trudy doesn't hesitate, and gives Rene a good kick right in the jaw. She can feel the texture of Rene's gums on her foot, ouch, she's gonna be feeling that one for a while.
Rene falls to her hands, spitting blood onto the ground. "You fucking bitch!" She grabs Trudy's puny body, the helpless axolotl yelping as Rene's gorilla grip squeezes her together like an aluminum can. "Eat my ass!"
Rene spins Trudy around a couple times before chucking her football head into the TV. "Hah, how do you like it!" she taunted, sparks of electricity falling out of the monitor and immediately making the whole apartment blow up, killing both of them.
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**THE END**''KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!!'' "HEY, EVERYTHING GOING GOOD IN THERE?!?!"
"Ugh... give me 10 more minutes!"
"Hey Trudy, you'll never guess what I found out! So under all the slime, the wall and floor and stuff is like, completely clean, spotless! Here's what I'm thinking, that stuff must have like, cleaning technology, and it's cleaning out the insides of your body right now."
"Ah fuck," Trudy keeled over. "Hey Rene, I really appreciate the lecture, but I think I'm gonna need some time to myself for right now."
"Uh, okay!" Rene gently tiptoed away from the bathroom. "Call me if you need any help!" She returned back to the living room, pacing around all on her lonesome. Her eyes scoped out all the dust and grime lying everywhere...yeah, it was pretty gross. The state of disrepair her place was in was staggering, but at the same time it hadn't been affecting Rene too much. It was just how her place was.
Y'know, y'know, no. She wasn't gonna put herself down like that. She had a guest over, she needed to get her shit in order if she was gonna be bringing other people over like that. Rene ran to the kitchen to grab some cleaning supplies from under the sink... today, she was gonna make a difference."Y'know what, since you're the special guest, why don't you pick your character first?"
Trudy smirked at Rene. "Well, don't mind if I do, swaggy..." Trudy hovered over everything briefly before she picked. It was obvious what she had to pick: Kuromi.
Rene nodded, and went ahead with her main: Keroppi. She liked what that little green guy was onto.
The game was set. The two picked a level, and in that instant, the two were battling head-to-head against each other on the one asteroid level I forget the name of. It was on. Everything mattered in just this one moment.
3...2...1...GO!!
The two scooted off on their little karts. Rene ran into a rock, killing Keroppi instantly.
"Fuck!" Rene tossed her controller at the corner of the room, getting up so she could go sit down angrier on the couch, making a rank cloud of dust cough out of the cushions when she did so. "This game fucking blows!"
Trudy laughed at her. "Mad because you suck?" She turned back to Rene with a gummy, shit-eating grin.
"No! It's just that, game bad, like the bad game! It sucks! It's broken! It's fail!" Rene threw her hands into her face. "What if you're the bad one, actually, and I'm just too good for the game, huh? Did you think of that?"
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
Rene's mouth started to quiver. "You're right! I'm a failure!" She dug her face into her shirt, sobbing heavily. "All I ever wanted was to be the best at Hello Kitty Kruisers... but no matter what I do everything falls apart."
Trudy patted Rene on the back. "It's okay Rene. We all do cringe stuff sometimes."
Rene snorted. "You really think so?"
"I know so."
Rene smiled. "Thank you, Trudy. It means a lot to me." She ran over to the Switch and yanked out the game. "I still think this game sucks, though, so I'm gonna change it to something better."
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''one super mario odyssey later''
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"Hahaha! I'm having a blast!"
Trudy sat under a blanket next to Rene. "Rene, couldn't you have picked a game with good multiplayer?"
"Hey, c'mon, I lost against you the last time, I need this."
[[Getting tired]]A stack of pictures fell out of Trudy's sweatshirt pocket. "Ah jeez..." her lips winced as Polaroid after Polaroid flopped onto the carpet.
"Huh? What's this?" Rene picked one of the photos off the ground, bringing her hand to her mouth when she witnessed what was on it. "TRUDY??" Her gasp sounded like it went up the back of her throat. "What is this??"
"M-my Griffin McElroy oviposition photos!!" Trudy stuck her hands out. "Rene, uh, I can explain, it's, um!"
"I've heard enough." Rene walked out of the living room. "I'm done with you, Trudy."
Trudy got to her knees, looking up at Rene with watery eyes and begging hands. "Please, Rene! It was for an observational comedy piece, I swear!" But her words fell on deaf ears. All Trudy could do know was accept that this was
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