Discussion: Friends with Benefits, a new featured story

Ooohhhh boy, here we go again! :tea: I just came off from reading Why Me? for the gems, and when I was reading the new chapters I was reminded how some of the free choices just makes MC a total a-hole.

The sudden introduction of Brody the Bad Boy was so forced. He was clearly there to stir up drama and be plan B if you really don’t want to date Shay. It peaked at the camping trip starting with Brody inviting himself. Dude, why on earth did you care enough to go on this camping trip?

I thought it couldn’t get any worse than when Aimee got knocked up and didn’t know if the baby was Leo’s or Ajax’s. Apparently, it was too much for a fickle person like Aimee to learn her lesson the first time when she was juggling between two guys. So why not sleep with the other dude when your heart gets hurt from the one you’re supposed to be working on a relationship with? :roll_eyes:

But NoOOooOOoOOO, what’s hilariously worse than Aimee’s situation in my book is the part where Shay and Brody throw down during the camping trip :rofl: The story peaked in ridiculousness for me at that point. Not the bit where Ryan started crap and spread gossip about Shay’s dad having an affair with Brody’s mom. Not even when it was discovered that both parents were having an affair and the crappy dad threatened MC to keep quiet about it. I should’ve taken a screenshot at the part where Shay punched Brody and said it’s Brody’s mom’s fault for seducing his dad (he’s not entirely wrong…). It seemed weird that Shay didn’t mention his dad being an equal participant? I thought I was seeing things when Brody punched back and said that it’s Shay’s mom’s fault for the affair escalating the way it did. Like WTF Brody? That’s a low blow.

About prom, in defense of Shay’s bedroom with the Hillary Clinton poster, it wasn’t even his bedroom anymore at that point. After Shay moved away, he came back and asked the new owners to let him do his promposal from his old bedroom.

Finally, I picked Shay because I had no other reason to pick the other guy. I didn’t like him enough to spend gems to see what the ending is.

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