(It's a letter addressed to the writer's mother.)

(You skim through it...)

(Sounds like someone ran away from home and had to reassure their mother they were doing okay.)

Isabeau (oh1) Drama!

Bonnie (stop!1) They ran away from home?! Why would they do that?!

Bonnie (wait1) Home is where the snacks are!

Odile (lol2) And also, family.

Bonnie (serious1) And also, family.

Isabeau (fufufu1) You've never ran away from home, Bonbon? I'll have to take back that cool kid certificate from you.

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First time in ACT 2 only

Siffrin (smiling3) "I ran away from home once!"

Isabeau (oh1) Woah!

Bonnie (no!2) You did?!?

Odile (lol2) Tell us more, cool kid.

Mirabelle (anxious2) Wh-what was the reason why?

Siffrin (fufu1) (You don't even have to think about it.) "I just didn't want to eat my veggies."

Odile (urgh1) ...Huh.

Siffrin (smiling3) "And so I took our boat!"

Siffrin (questions2) "Got to the beach, rowed away from the shore a bit."

Siffrin (joke1) "I was going to come back right away, I just wanted to scare my parents a bit!"

Odile (lol1) Such a terrible child.

Mirabelle (anxious2) A-And then, and then? What happened when you got back?

Siffrin (smiling3) "I started to row back towards the shore..."

Siffrin (questions1) "And then, I..."

Siffrin (surprised3) "I..."

Siffrin (surprised1) "..."

The screen glitches.

Isabeau (wonder1) ...Sif?

Siffrin (surprised2) (Woah! What?) "Um, yes?"

Isabeau (huh1) Um... You were telling us how you ran away from home?

Siffrin (questions1) "I... was?"

Odile (urgh1) You... Were.

Bonnie (stop!1) DID YOU FORGET WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WHILE TALKING ABOUT IT?!?

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Seriously Sif, we have GOT to do something about your awful memory.

(Hey!)

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Subsequent times and ACT 3 onwards

Odile (reading2) Anyway, people who run away from home are... People who don't like their family, maybe.

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Um, sometimes parents can be meanies, and someone might decide to just... Leave?

Bonnie (surprised1) Oh... You can run away from home if your parents are meanies?

Bonnie (and then1) Oh! That's what Nille did! I think!

Mirabelle (anxious2) Nille...

Bonnie (happy2) My sister! I think she told me about it once.

Bonnie (smile4) But I wasn't listening very well because I was sleepy.

Mirabelle (anxious3) Oh?

Isabeau (hm4) Oh.

Odile (guilty1) ...

(...)

(No one really knows how to respond to that.)

Bonnie (wait1) Huh? What? What? What did I say?

Odile (lol2) N-Nothing at all, Boniface. Should we look at something other than an old letter?

Bonnie (and then1) Okay!

(Running away from home...)

• ACT 2 & 3: (What a weird thing to do[!/.])
• ACT 4: (Why do you get this sinking feeling in your stomach?)

(You open the drawer...)

(You got five SWEET TONICS!)

(You got three SUPER SWEET TONICS!)

(You got three SALTY BROTHS!)

(You got three CRAFTED WATERS!)

Odile (urgh1) What the...

Isabeau (sif!1) Jackpot!!!

(You give them all to Bonnie for safekeeping.)

(The drawer is empty.)

(This bookcase is filled with romance novels.)

• ACT 2: (Not your thing, but you don't mind them!)
• ACT 3 & 4: (You try not to cringe.)
• If You Know: (...)

Mirabelle (happy2) Romance novels...

Isabeau (yeah!1) Romance!!! Novels!!!

Bonnie (ew1) Ew.

Odile (urgh1) Urgh...

Isabeau (really1) I understand the kid's reaction, but why "urgh", m'dame?

Mirabelle (stressed1) Don't sound so disgusted, madame!!! Romance novels are good!!!

Odile (wonder1) Eh...

Odile (reading2) I'm just the kind of person who has decided romantic love is not very important to me, Mirabelle.

Mirabelle (awawa1) ...!

• Default: (Mirabelle is looking at Odile intently...)
• With Mirabelle's Friendquest done this loop: (Mirabelle looks your way, with stars in her eyes.)
• With Mirabelle's Friendquest done in a previous loop: (You look Mirabelle's way, but she only has eyes for Odile.)

Mirabelle (anxious2) Ha-have you...Have you never been in love before, madame Odile?"

Odile (huh3) Huh? Oh, no, of course I've been in love before.

Odile (lol4) It'd be weirder if I didn't, at my age.

Mirabelle (sad1) O-Oh...

Odile (wonder1) Hm... I did fall in love for the first time later than most... Maybe in my twenties?

Odile (reading2) And even then, it took me a while to realize what I was feeling.

Isabeau (neutral1) Oh yeah? Why is that?

Odile (lol1) At the time, I genuinely didn't know you could get crushes on people you hate, heh.

Isabeau (LMAO1) HA! YEAH!!!

Bonnie (serious1) What? That's weird.

Mirabelle (uwah!1) Wait, HUH?!? IS THAT TRUE?!?

Isabeau (huh1) Um, yes?

Isabeau (boo1) Crushes can be annoying like that.

Isabeau (hahaha2) My heart has been good to me though, so it hasn't happened to me in a long time!

Mirabelle (stressed1) HUH!?!?

Isabeau (hahaaa1) Why are you so surprised? You recommended me a romance novel that was about bitter enemies becoming lovers!

Mirabelle (angy1) A-AND I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY THEY WOULD DO THAT BUT THE STORY WAS WELL WRITTEN AND INTERESTING AND I JUST FIGURED IT WAS THEM BEING WEIRD!!!

Odile (urgh1) But...Isn't there a whole genre of romance books about... Enemies becoming lovers?

Mirabelle (angy1) I THOUGHT IT WAS A LOVE TROPE THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY BASIS IN REALITY JUST LIKE HOW YOUR HEART DOESN'T ACTUALLY BEAT FASTER WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE YOU LIKE!!!

Odile (urgh1) ...

Isabeau (oh1) ...

(Isabeau puts a hand on Mirabelle's shoulder.)

Isabeau (fufufu1) Conversations like these are why I hope we'll stay friends for a very long time, Mira.

Mirabelle (happy1) Oh! Isabeau, I'm so glad, I feel the sa--

Mirabelle (angy1) WAIT, NO--

ACT 2

(Wait, can you not choose who you get a crush on? It just happens?)

(This explains so much!!!)

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ACT 3-4

(Crushes feel like a disease to you, sometimes.)

(You want to tear those feelings out.)

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If You Know

(...)

(He probably can't help having a crush on you.)

(Poor him. He deserves better.)