Play Along
An interactive romantic comedy · with Jude Alvarez
You lied in the group chat about bringing someone, and before you could take it back he typed me.
Your choices shape how Jude responds.
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- Love interest
- Jude Alvarez
- Genre
- Romantic comedy
- Length
- ~15 minutes
Tropes
About Play Along
It was one tiny lie. Everyone in the group chat was bringing someone to the lake house, so you typed that you were too.
Before you could take it back, Jude Alvarez replied: me.
Now you have a fake boyfriend, a weekend with all your friends, and exactly one room at the lake house. Jude is completely relaxed about all of this. Far too relaxed. Almost like he's been waiting for an excuse.
Keep it convincing. Keep it fake.
Make it to Sunday.
“still your fake date. still one room at the lake house. just saying.”
A taste of the story
From Chapter 3
The house is Danny’s uncle’s and it smells like a tent. Nine of us, six bedrooms, and the room they’ve put us in has one window, one lamp, and — obviously, inevitably, because the universe has a sense of humour and it is not a kind one —
“There’s one bed.”
JUDE
“Mm.”
“There is one bed, Jude.”
JUDE
“I noticed.”
He drops his bag like this is a normal thing that is happening.
JUDE
“I’ll take the floor.”
And I stand there in a room that smells like other people’s summers, looking at one bed and a man being decent about it, and I wait to feel the thing I have been feeling about Jude Alvarez this whole time.
It doesn’t come.
What comes instead is that I’ve known his coffee order for months. That I have an opinion about a freckle. That I bought the blue packet myself, once, in February, and told myself nothing about it. That I have argued with him, on purpose, in front of witnesses, at every single opportunity, for an entire academic year, and that I have never once been bored.
Oh, I think.
Oh, no.
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Questions
Is Play Along free to read?
Yes. Chapter 1 of Play Along is free, and Chapters 1–3 are free for 2 stories a month with a free account. To finish it, unlock the whole story for $2.99 — one payment, yours to keep, and if you want every story, you can read them all FREE for 7 days, then $9.99 a month.
Who is the love interest in Play Along?
Jude Alvarez. Play Along is an interactive romantic comedy where your choices shape what happens with Jude, and the story remembers every one.
What kind of story is Play Along?
An interactive romantic comedy built on he falls first, forced proximity and fake dating. You make the choices, and later chapters remember them.
How long is Play Along?
About 15 minutes of reading, in chapters you can read at your own pace.