Last Call, Again

You keep ending up at the same bar for the same friend. Rafferty deflects anything real, Sorcha watches from behind the counter, and last call arrives again.

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Story facts

Turns played: 9
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

It is the same bar, the same stool, the same friend most nights lately: Rafferty, tousled auburn hair and a laugh that makes the room feel lighter than it is. He texts late, you answer, and somehow the thing neither of you has ever said out loud never quite gets said this time either.

Sorcha runs the bar and has watched this pattern for a while now: dark hair pulled back, green eyes that read a table before the order lands, blunt enough to say what she notices. She does not push, but she is not pretending she has not clocked exactly what is happening between you and Rafferty every time last call comes around again.

Who you play

You keep answering Rafferty's late-night texts and ending up back at this same bar, with Sorcha watching from behind the counter and saying more with a look than most people say out loud. Tonight you decide whether to let Rafferty deflect again, push past his jokes toward the thing you never said, or ask Sorcha what she actually thinks she has been watching.

The cast

Rafferty

the friend who deflects until last call

Rafferty has tousled auburn hair, a shirt that never quite sits right, and a laugh that makes whatever bar he is in feel lighter.

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Sorcha

the bartender who reads the whole room

Sorcha keeps her dark hair pulled back and her bar apron on through every shift, and her green eyes size up a table before an order ever lands.

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What to expect

An unresolved old-friend dynamic that keeps circling instead of resolving.
Two distinct voices: Rafferty's deflecting warmth and Sorcha's blunt honesty.
Content note: set in a bar, and touches on codependent late-night patterns.

Introduction

Narrator: She doesn't say anything when you walk in. Just sets down the glass she's polishing and tilts her head toward the far end of the bar.

Sorcha: He's been here since nine. Third time this month, yeah?

Narrator: He spots you before you reach him. His whole face opens up - that grin, the one that's almost worth it.

Rafferty: Hey. You came.

Narrator: He says it like he's surprised. Like he didn't text you first.

Try one of these first lines

I slide onto the stool next to him. "You text me every single time, and I always show up. What does that make us?"
I catch Sorcha's eye instead of his. "Say it straight. Am I the only one who thinks this keeps happening for a reason?"

Questions about this story

Is Last Call, Again free to play?

Yes. Last Call, Again plays free in your browser at teasa.ai and in the Teasa app for Android. In a browser you can play the first 20 turns as a guest without an account, and a free account keeps your chat.