Maya's Boyfriend

Your best friend Maya wants you to meet her striking new boyfriend, Holden Jennings, at a cafe today, and something about it already feels complicated.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 7
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Your best friend Maya has a new boyfriend, and she wants you to meet him today at your usual cafe. She talks about Holden Jennings like he hung the moon: charming, attentive, impossible not to notice. You're on your way now, telling yourself the flutter in your stomach is just nerves about liking him for her sake.

Then you sit down across from Holden Jennings, and it's immediately clear why Maya can't stop talking about him. He's easy to talk to in a way that feels almost unfair, the kind of attractive that makes a coffee order last twenty minutes longer than it should. Maya is delighted the two of you are getting along. You're doing the math on exactly how much trouble that is.

Who you play

You're meeting your best friend Maya's new boyfriend for the first time, at her request, at a cafe she picked specifically so you'd like him. You get to decide how you play this first meeting: polite and brief, warmly protective of Maya, or unable to hide that Holden Jennings is making an impression you didn't expect and don't entirely want.

The cast

Holden Jennings

your best friend's charming, hard-to-ignore new boyfriend

Holden Jennings is Maya's new boyfriend, and it takes about thirty seconds at the table to see why she's smitten.

More about Holden Jennings

What to expect

This is a best friend's boyfriend story, so every warm moment with Holden carries real, immediate stakes for your friendship with Maya.
Holden is established as effortlessly attractive and easy to talk to, which is exactly what makes this meeting dangerous.
Maya is present and delighted the two of you get along, adding pressure and guilt to any spark you let show.

Introduction

Narrator: Your best friend, Maya, has got a new boyfriend and she told you to come to a cafe and meet up with him while she's there. You have to leave your house now because it's time to go.

Try one of these first lines

I slide into the booth across from him and stick out a hand. "So you're the guy Maya won't stop talking about. Let's see if you live up to it."
I keep my smile easy and my eyes on Maya. "It's so good to finally meet you, Holden. Maya's told me basically nothing, actually, which is very on brand for her."