Heavy Sleep

Walkthrough for the story **Heavy Sleep** written by **Cassiah Joski Jethi**

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## Chapter 1: Ignorance

It's the evening before High School graduation. You will meet your ex-best friends for one last celebration, you don't know if anyone will turn up.

### **Setup**

What is your name?: *(Default)* Ella
* Normal
?? - 15💎
?? - 20💎

### **Lake - Secret Meeting Spot**

*I wait, looking out to the lake. It's quiet.*
**James:** Ella!
*Suddenly someone jumps on me.*
**Ella:** What the hell!
*I push the person off. I see it's James.*
**Ella:** James. Don't creep up on me like that.
**James:** You still love me.
**Ella:** No, not anymore. Not when you're going to run off and leave me here.
**James:** Ah, you're being 'passio irascibilis'.
**Ella:** Passive aggresive?
**James:** Mmhm.
**Ella:** Well, I've got a reason to be.
**James:** It's not all doom and gloom. Graduation soon.
**Ella:** Yay.
**James:** That means we get to have our big together. The night before graduating. At the warehouse. We promised. Remember?
**Ella:** Yes. But that was years ago now. We're not all best friends anymore.
**James:** Still friends though, right?
**Ella:** I'm not sure...
**James:** How about this. You organize it, and that nght, I'll tell you a secret, hm?
**Ella:** Secret? What sort of secret?
**James:** Well, you'll see, won't you?
*Suddenly, my phone beeps. I get it out of my pocket and read:*

```
**James**

Where are you? I'm waiting at the warehouse for you.

```

**Ella:** *This text message is from James? But James is right in front of me.*
*I look up. James is gone.*
**Ella:** James! James?
*I turn and look at the lake. Everything suddenly turns cold. Fades to darkness.*

### **Path Up To Warehouse**

*My eyes flutter open and closed.*
**???:** Ella? Ella!
**Ella:** Marvin?
*I see Marvin rush to my side.*
**Marvin:** You stumbled.
**Ella:** Did I?
**Marvin:** What happened to you?
#### **Choice 1:**

* I don't remember.

**Ella:** I don't remember.
**Marvin:** Do you need a hand?
*Marvin helps me up.*

* I just fell.

* It's nothing, it's fine.

**Ella:** Where did we come from?
**Marvin:** School, of course.
**Ella:** Feels like we've been walking for ages.
**Marvin:** We can't be lost.
**Ella:** Yeah, well the last time we all came to the warehouse was when we were 13. We just started high school. We got proper spooked off, do you remember?
**Marvin:** Yeah, and then we turned into grumpy hormonal teenagers.
**Ella:** Speak for yourself.
*We start to walk up the path.*
**Ella:** It's our last night before graduating
**Marvin:** I'm sorry to break it to you, Ella, but I don't know if that means anything to anyone anymore.
**Ella:** I guess I should have mentally prepared myself.
**Marvin:** Look, it was a nice idea. To get everyone together. But -
**Ella:** But everyone's got their own thing now. I got ya.
*I see up ahead the abandoned warehouse.*
**Ella:** We can't be too far now.
**Marvin:** If you can see the lake at the bottom of the hill, we're close.
**Ella:** I can see it!
**Marvin:** Great.
*Marvin keeps walking up the path. I catch up with him.*
**Marvin:** I can't believe we're back here. It all feels a bit unreal.
**Ella:** I had a strange dream too, earlier.
**Marvin:** Really? What aboout?
**Ella:** James was there, and then he just disappeared. It was odd.
**Marvin:** It makes sense he's on the mind. You must be missing him.
**Ella:** Missing him? Why do you talk about James like this?
#### **Choice 2:**

* What's going on with James?

**Ella:** Is there something wrong with him?
**Marvin:** What do you mean?
**Ella:** James. He's coming, right?
**Marvin:** Have you forgotten or something?
**Ella:** Forgotten what?
**Marvin:** James is lost.
**Ella:** What? For how long?
**Marvin:** You know this Ella.
**Ella:** No, I really don't. I swear we just saw him.
**Marvin:** He's been missing for a week.
**Ella:** This doesn't make any sense. What happened?

* What happened between you and Natalie?

* Do you think they'll come?

**Marvin:** I don't want to talk about it.
**Ella:** Please, Marvin - ?
**Marvin:** Drop it, Ella.
**Ella:** But I... I don't understand...
*I look at the floor.*
**Marvin:** Oh, don't get upset Ella. I hate to see you sad.
*Marvin comes to me and gives me a hug.*
**Ella:** *Marvin is so caring really. Even if he's my best friend's ex. Well, ex-best-friend's ex.*
*I look into Marvin's eyes.*
#### **Choice 3:**

* Kiss Marvin. -15💎

* Hug Marvin back.

**Ella:** Thanks for being here for me. What are you going to wear to graduation tomorrow?
*I let Marvin go.*

**Marvin:** A tux.
**Ella:** How original.
**Marvin:** If I tried to go in anything else, it'd be like a pearl harbour with my parents.
**Ella:** I'm going in a bright red pantsuit.
**Marvin:** Is that even in code?
**Ella:** What's school going to do? Kick me out?
**Marvin:** You wouldn't want to be kicked out the very last time you'll be on school grounds.
**Ella:** They'll be fine. They let Penny Haworth wear a pantsuit last year.
**Marvin:** Her dad was on the school board. Your dad's -
**Ella:** Non-existent?
**Marvin:** Not what I meant -
**Ella:** Just because my mum owns a farm and my dad's AWOL doesn't mean I'm not pansuit material, ok?
**Marvin:** Hey, it's not me you have to convince.
**Ella:** It's so old school that girls have to wear dresses. Loads won't turn up in them. Can you imagine Natalie in address?
**Marvin:** I've seen it.
**Ella:** And how was it?
**Marvin:** Pretty. Wouldn't dare to tell her that though.
**Ella:** Well, if Natalie's here tonight I hope it doesn't open a can of worms.
**Marvin:** I doubt she'll come. Considering last week -
**Ella:** When we were 13, just started high school, we PROMISED each other that night, we'd come back here. A final HURRAH together before graduating.
**Marvin:** Well, things change. Lots has changed. You, me, Natalie, James -
*I stop and look down on the ground.*
**Marvin:** You've been friends with JAmes since you were in your mum's tums! Oh, sorry, Ella. I shouldn't have brought him up -
**Ella:** It's fine.
**Marvin:** For what it's worth. I think he'll be okay.
**Ella:** You do?
*Marvin nods.*
**Ella:** I just want him to come back.
**Marvin:** Who knows. He could turn up tonight.
We continue up the path.
**Ella:** Well, knowing my luck organizing things, it'll just be you, me and Gabriella anyway.
**Marvin:** That's our life now.
**Ella:** It's just like everybody forgot that we promised, six years ago, no matter what, to come here on the eve of our high school graduation, best friends.
**Marvin:** Well, we're not best friends anymore. That's called growing up.
*I look around. I recognise where we are.*
**Ella:** Hey, it's just up here...

### **Warehouse - Entrance**

*Marvin and I walk up to the entrance. I see Gabriella waiting.*
**Gabriella:** Hi guys. What took you so long?
**Ella:** Um, I'm not really sure.
**Marvin:** Ella had one of her space-out moments.
**Ella:** Did not.
*I notice Gabriella's tablet in her hands.*
**Ella:** You working on something?
**Gabriella:** Nah, just coding to pass the time.
**Ella:** "Just"?
**Marvin:** MIT will love you.
**Gabriella:** That's the hope. Did you accept Fudan yet?
**Marvin:** No, I'm going backpacking instead. Solo man on a mission. Leave this dumb behind. I'll be gone for the year. I'm hoping Fudan will have me next fall.
**Gabriella:** Well, who wouldn't want you. What about you, Ella?
**Ella:** Me?
**Gabriella:** What are you going to do? You have so much potential, you're a language... Wizard!
**Ella:** I, um, well. University's just not on the cards for everyone, is it?
**Gabriella:** Oh. Well, that's okay. University's not for everyone.
**Marvin:** Nor is backpacking.
**Gabriella:** No, exactly. Too many boys.
**Ella:** Thanks guys.
*I pick up a stone and throw it down the hill, towards the lake.*
**Ella:** I just wish I knew what's happened to James... Why do I recall that memory with James? I should...
#### **Choice 4:**

* Stop thinking about it.

**Ella:** Let's talk about something else.
**Gabriella:** Are you sure you're alright, Ella?
**Ella:** Yes, I'll be fine, don't worry about me.

* Recall more about it. - 12💎

*Marvin walks to the entrance. He tries to push the door. It won't budge.*
**Marvin:** How'd we get in six years ago?
**Gabriella:** We were a lot smaller. Think we fit in a vent or something.
**Ella:** I'm claustrophobic now, so that's a no go.
**Marvin:** So come on MIT, how are we going to get in?
*Gabrielle stands back, looks at the building.*
**Gabriella:** We could scale the wall. Get some rope. Climb in through those big - Maybe not.
**Ella:** Maybe you're not pulling hard enough, Marvin.
**Gabriella:** Or at the right angle.
*I walk to the door and pull on it. It almost budges.*
**Gabriella:** Use your body weight. Bend your knees.
*I bend my knees and pull. The door opens.*
**Gabriella:** It worked.
**Ella:** We all know Marvin's not the man of muscle.
**Marvin:** I may not be muscle, but I AM the man of remembering mind bending facts and figures.
**Gabriella:** Useful in some circumstances -
**Ella:** But not for opening a door.
*We all laugh. I peek into the warehouse. It's dark and dusty.*
**Gabriella:** So... It is really just us three?
**Ella:** I guess so.
**Gabriella:** Okay. Let's go.
*I stop as I see the lake below. I hesitate.*
**Marvin:** Ella? Are you okay?
**Ella:** Something... Something about the lake...
**Marvin:** What? What about the lake?
**Ella:** I can remember... Being cold, only coldness. Being so scared. The screaming. It's all I could hear.
**Marvin:** Who screaming?
**Ella:** Telling me... Begging me to...
**Gabriella:** Telling you what?
**Ella:** Nothing. Let's go in.
*Gabriella and Marvin look at me, confused. I quickly run into the warehouse entrance.*

### **Warehouse - Main Room**

*We walk into the main room. I spot a fire burning in a trash can.*
**Ella:** Look!
*We run over to the fire.*
**Ella:** It's the same as when we were 13.
**Gabriella:** Hello!!?
*We look around. I don't see anyone.*
**Marvin:** That's creepy.
**Gabriella:** There'll be a perfectly good reason.
**Marvin:** You're always logic, logic, logic.
**Ella:** Guys, James isn't here. He said he was here, waiting!
*Gabriella and Marvin look at each other, shiftily.*
**Ella:** I want to ask you guys a question.
#### **Choice 5:**

* What happened last week?

**Marvin:** You can't remember?
**Ella:** I can only remember James. Which obviously isn't right. You guys are acting shifty.

* Why do you think James is lost?

* Did we get together last week?

**Gabriella:** Maybe it's best to leave it.
**Ella:** Why, what!
**Marvin:** It might upset you -
**Ella:**Why would it upset me? If James is lost, it means he can be found, right?
*Suddenly my phone beeps.*

```
**James:**
You're taking a long ti...

```

'*Ella:'**It's a message from James. Should I...*