"Uhm... Geoff, could you come here a minute ..."
You were woken by the voice of a very concerned English man. You opened your eyes to see he was clad in green and had a mess of sandy-blonde hair atop his head.
"Christ, Gavin! I'm actually working over here! Just give me a bit," another man (you were guessing this 'Geoff' fellow) responded from some other part of the forest in a comically annoyed tone.
The man above you, however had noticed your sudden consciousness and got on his knees next to you. He pulled your upper body up and cradled it in his lap, "are you okay, love?" The way he asked was so sincere and caring. And oddly romantic.
He was carefully brushing your hair out of your face when you finally got the breath to respond. You eventually stuttered out, "yes, I think so."
"Happy to hear that, love," he spoke as a very handsome smile stretched across his face.
The other man, the assumed 'Geoff,' was approaching. You could now see he was in very fancy, futuristic armor, with black hair and a mustache. He must not have noticed you yet because he asked what this blonde man was whining about, until he interrupted himself by taking note of your presence. "Oh, who's this?" He gestured to you, laying partially in the other man's lap, "What's your name, miss?" He bent over a little to get a better look at you.
"Oh tot! I never did ask your name, love."
You responded sheepishly, telling them your name, a little uncomfortable with these men crowded around you.
The blonde one did not hesitate to compliment you on what a beautiful name you had. And the one in armor quickly called him out for it, "Gavin, quit flirting."
"Sorry Geoff, I can't help it."
It was rather awkward to be in-between them as they argued, but it was nice to know you guessed right in the one being Geoff. And you did recall the sandy-haired one being called Gavin at one point.
"Whatever," Geoff groaned, "just help me walk her back to Achievement City."
They both pulled you up to a standing position and you couldn't quite get your balance and fell into Gavin's arms. As you backed up to regain your footing you couldn't help but notice Gavin's cheeks were a very obvious shade of pink.
Geoff attempted to put his arm around your shoulders to help you stand straight, but you insisted you could walk on your own. He nodded and said, "as long as you think can do it on your own, I don't really care."
Gavin, however, was appalled at the idea of you walking on your own and insisted you at least loop your arm with his until you were out of the forest. You reluctantly agreed and took his arm in yours and you were all on your jolly way.
"So what is this 'Achievement City'?" you finally asked after a few minutes of walking.
"It's our little town of six people," Geoff replied casually.
"Huh?" you asked, perplexed by this idea, "there's only six people a whole town?"
"Six people in this whole world, as far as we know," Geoff corrected.
"Seven, now," Gavin smiled at you once more.
You were becoming uncomfortable with his flirtatiousness and avoided eye-contact, instead looking at Geoff, "What're the others like?"
"Well, to start, there's Jack and Ryan. Jack's a master at building houses, well not as great as me, but still." Gavin giggled and Geoff continued, "Ryan's really good with animals. Like he has this cow that he-"
Gavin interrupted him, jostling you a bit. "No! Ryan's a psycho! He's absolutely mental!" Geoff just started laughing. "But other than those freaks, there's my boi Mi-cool and my buddy Ray."
"Michael is an angry dickhead and Ray is a cocky little fucker."
This sort of shocked you, "wow, that came off a little hostile."
Geoff reassured you that they were actually pretty decent guys just as you stepped foot onto what you had to guess was this 'Achievement City' they had told you about.
As soon as you entered the veiw of the crowd of other men they rushed towards you.
You had to admit being surrounded by these grown men was intimidating, even when they were being pretty careful around you. It was also very overwhelming and annoying to hear them all asking who you were and what was wrong with you and why you were here and all these questions until eventually you just had to shout, "could I just meet you all indevidually, PLEASE!"
They all stood silent, shocked at your sudden outburst. "Now," you started more calmly this time, "Nice to meet you..." you smiled and stuck out your hand to be shaken by the thinner, black haired man with glasses, only to be handed a rose that he pulled out of nowhere.
"I'm Ray" he winked at you, which sent a chill down your spine and made Gavin pull you closer to himself.
You sighed and turned to the next man, he too had glasses and curly red hair that only stuck out a little from under his beanie. "Hello," you stuck your hand out for him to shake too.
"I'm Michael," he stated bluntly before Ray cut in.
"You and Gavin seem pretty close; no, literally: Gavin couldn't be holding you any closer to him."
Gavin defended himself lamely, "shut up Ray."
However, he was right. It was becoming painfully obvious that Gavin was a little too 'friendly' with you. "I hope you realize you and me aren't a 'thing,' you know that, right?" you asked him, pulling yourself away from him.
Gavin blushed more than he already was and mumbled, a bit crushed, "oh... yeah..." He loosened his grip on you and you slowly slid out of his hold.
You moved on to the next man, a burly-looking man with an impressive beard and glasses. He took your hand and shook it firmly. "Sorry, Gavin's quick to assume. I'm Jack, by the way." He smiled at you warmly and you couldn't help but smile back.
You reached the final man in the group, a buffer looking guy with blonde hair. He took your hand in his strong one and shook it surprisingly softly, "I'm Ryan." you couldn't help but notice he had a very similar voice to Jack's.
As soon as Ryan had let go of your hand, Geoff was prying you out of Gavin's cobra grip, and leading you away from the group, to speak privately, "let's find you a place to stay. You are staying, right?"
You nodded and smiled, "of course!"
"Okay then, who are you rooming with?"
[Who are you rooming with, my attractive reader? Choose now, in your third step of this story. Just choose a chapter titled 'Move in with (Achievement Hunter)." And no, this isn't who you're ultimately ending up with, so don't worry]
