Exit Strategies, Monday, Period 2

[jedigrammarians]

Today the Danger Shop looked like a very fancy, very intimate, very romantic restaurant, complete with several small tables for two, each with a relatively attractive humanoid seated at them.

"Welcome, kids," Aphra greeted them. "In honour of the holiday, today you'll be learning perhaps the most important escape skill of all. Breaking up!"

So romantic!

"Now I realise this may make me sound like a cynic, but the ability to end a relationship with a minimum of hurt on both sides is a rare and valuable skill." It certainly wasn't one Aphra exercised well. "So today you're going to be breaking up with your long term partner. They're perfectly nice, they haven't done anything wrong, you haven't been unhappy, but lately they've been talking marriage and kids and you've realised you don't see that kind of future with them.

"So get out there and break some hearts. But gently."

Comments

Break Up! - ES [07]

[jedigrammarians]

Pick one of the tables and a moddable partner of an appropriate gender, then crush their hopes and dreams.

But, hey, at least Aphra didn't program the sim so they're preparing to propose or anything. That would be awkward.

Aphra totally programmed the sim so they were preparing to propose.

Re: Break Up! - ES [07]

[outofthequiver]

In a way, this whole scenario was absurd to Libby, who couldn't imagine dating anyone without the intention of some day marrying them, but at least, with all her tumultuous feelings about this whole thing, she did feel she knew exactly how to handle this, regardless.

"I'm so sorry," she told the person across the table from her, not able to really look at him, because even though she knew he was just a hologram she didn't even know, this was actually much harder than she thought it would be. In addition to making her feel bad all over again about having to turn down Kurt at the dance. "But....the Lord has clearly been calling us in different directions. Away from each other."

And you couldn't argue with God! And so, with that, Libby just pushed back her chair and turned to leave before her guilt could get the best of her, especially if the hologram person decided to try arguing against God after all!

Re: Break Up! - ES [07]

[giveittoyoursister]

Well, this was going to be awkward...

She reached across to pat the woman's hand. "Look, babe, it's not you, it's me."

Oh, Vi, honey, no.

Vi watched helplessly as the woman burst into tears.

Re: Break Up! - ES [07]

[guillermothegreat]

Guillermo was pretty sure he was never going to be in this position where he needed to break up with someone because that would mean he’d have a relationship to begin with.

“So…I ……um I’m sorry I don’t think this is …working out,” he was saying to the girl across from him, even though it was a hologram, it still felt rather weird, “I hope we can still be friends?” he tried.